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Post by ~MangO_O~ on Jan 5, 2006 13:32:52 GMT -5
Nope My mother didn't teach me Vietnamese, that's why she trew me into Vietnamese school... GOD ALL THOSE HOURS OF TORTURE!!!
It woulda been much smoother if she thought me... Yea... BUt she said she was too lazy to do so.
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Post by Micha on Jan 5, 2006 15:14:00 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I was thrown into Chinese school for hmmm...... 4 years and when I finally escaped I could say people, sun, hello my name is _____ (fill in), big, small and i could count to ten.
SCORE!
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Post by jonjon on Jan 5, 2006 17:25:31 GMT -5
I live in the UK, so I sort of see myself as British. I speak English, and my dad never taught me Hindi, I don't know why. I asked him if he regrets it, and he wasn't really too bothered that we didn't learn it. All my family in India speak English anyway, I know that's ignorant but it's just the way it is. I cheer myself up by telling myself I can speak French and Spanish fairly well.
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Post by Sensei on Jan 5, 2006 20:48:03 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I was thrown into Chinese school for hmmm...... 4 years and when I finally escaped I could say people, sun, hello my name is _____ (fill in), big, small and i could count to ten. SCORE! lol, that's more than I can say for my ten or so years of French instruction!!! I definitely cannot count to ten. |
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Post by alco-HALL on Jan 10, 2006 5:25:13 GMT -5
Nope, they both speak Indonesian which makes my first language Indonesian. I've been wanting to learn Dutch and somehow French. I tried taking French in college but I was taking 6 science courses at that time. Ended up dropping the class and kept the textbook for future references.  |
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Post by ...austhai/... on Jan 12, 2006 3:16:39 GMT -5
My Mom spoke a lot of Thai with me when I was a kid, but my Dad spoke it too (its his 3rd language) so now (since my mom's gone) and my uncle is living in Thailand again, so I'm reduced to speaking with my Dad on the phone, ordering at restaurants, and speaking with my uncle.
I'm trying to teach Zach (my hubby) but he doesn't understand why he has to use the " positive pleaser" all the time (m=kop, f=ka)
Lonely planet has all kinds of phrasebooks in quite an array of languages, and borders sells the slang books as well.
My family won't teach me any swear words tho.
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arcturus
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Post by arcturus on Jan 29, 2006 19:44:10 GMT -5
Mum spoke Vietnmese to me whilst I was growing up and I'm fluent as a result of that.
Learning French was a personal project that I undertook a few years ago and after having lived in France for a year I can say that I'm quite proficient in French as well.
Anything to do with languages and linguistic theory is fascinating.
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Post by Micha on Jan 29, 2006 20:09:24 GMT -5
I'd love to go to France and do that but I have no time. Give me a French newspaper or leaflet etc and I can translate it perfectly but I struggle like hell when I watch French TV; even Disney films due to lack of practise. We're taught all that conventional crap that gets you through a French School easily but if I had to talk to a French teenager they'd cringe as I have no knowledge of French slang, colloquial terms and random sayings  |
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arcturus
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Post by arcturus on Jan 30, 2006 1:48:22 GMT -5
^The experience in France was quite amazing. It did so much for my French and taught me things that one could never learn in a classroom with a textbook.
Like yourself, I'll struggle at times when watching French television/films if the language is really technical or ultra-fast - it's something that obviously improves with time and practise.
French slang is particularly unique when you take into account such things as verlan.
In any case, there's always extra work that one can do when it comes to languages, even in your most preferred language - new vocabulary for example.
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Post by friendswithoutcash on Feb 1, 2006 2:15:32 GMT -5
Grew up speaking Vietnamese, fluent enough for me to communciate with friends and family.
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Post by pepsicola on Feb 2, 2006 7:23:00 GMT -5
i dont speak an ounch of Polish!! it makes me so sad  , becuase I feel like a total stranger here. And nobody seems to speak English at all. "Kuhrva mach!" ;D  my mother didn't bother teaching me Thai, but she did use a few phrases at times..like that helped  , So I had to learn it by myself by attending classes and i had a lot of thai friends and family who were very supportive. i can get by most of the daily situations..but im not fluent tho. |
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Post by sass in a glass on Feb 2, 2006 16:19:24 GMT -5
as a child my mum would speak mandarin to me but i can only speak broken chinese. and it's such a shame that i'm beginning to forget the language and up until now, i have a hard time remembering how to say little things like, spoon, water, car, etc etc.  i'm thinking i should move to china where i'm forced to have to speak in only chinese, that's a sure way of instilling it in my head.  |
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arcturus
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Post by arcturus on Feb 2, 2006 17:58:51 GMT -5
^They always say that total immersion is the most effective way to learn a new language so it would most certainly instill it in your head.
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, becuase I feel like a total stranger here. And nobody seems to speak English at all. "Kuhrva mach!" ;D 
, So I had to learn it by myself by attending classes and i had a lot of thai friends and family who were very supportive. i can get by most of the daily situations..but im not fluent tho.
i'm thinking i should move to china where i'm forced to have to speak in only chinese, that's a sure way of instilling it in my head. 