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Post by Ajeno on Aug 13, 2008 12:59:39 GMT -5
1. Spanish
2. English
And thats it sadly..My uncle was teaching me Arabic until i became lazy.
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devinsky
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Polish,mongol,metis,gaelic,african.
Posts: 43
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Post by devinsky on Aug 13, 2008 23:24:14 GMT -5
holy sh*te! you guys are crazy! that's awesome you can know so many different languages. me i'm only fluent in English, but i can make a little convo in Polish, Ojibwe, Tagalog and french. Yaaaay, someone who can understand two of my languages! Anyway, my mother tongues are: Ojibwe and Tagalog, but I'm more fluent in English and French. I can also understand Japanese (spoken) and Spanish (written). I'm trying to become more fluent in my parents' languages though. Tagalog's awesome! my co-workers teach me everyday but wen speak it to filipinas and filipinos that dont know me they always laugh haha. and Ojibwe has definitely gotta be the most usefull first nations language here in canada, but it's real tough to learn if your parents never spoke it to you. |
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Post by honeyviper on Aug 14, 2008 1:14:51 GMT -5
Yaaaay, someone who can understand two of my languages! Anyway, my mother tongues are: Ojibwe and Tagalog, but I'm more fluent in English and French. I can also understand Japanese (spoken) and Spanish (written). I'm trying to become more fluent in my parents' languages though. Tagalog's awesome! my co-workers teach me everyday but wen speak it to filipinas and filipinos that dont know me they always laugh haha. and Ojibwe has definitely gotta be the most usefull first nations language here in canada, but it's real tough to learn if your parents never spoke it to you. Tagalog is pretty fun! They probably laugh because they don't expect it. I speak a more regionalized version of it though from the provinces. Ojibwe has been really handy and I've been learning it on my own for four years. I can even understand good chunks of Cree because of it (which surprised me because I wasn't expecting to understand Plains Cree...my dialect is closer to Mashkigoo Cree). I'm interested in seeing how much Innu I can understand. |
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Post by mingzayni88 on Aug 25, 2008 15:57:41 GMT -5
Currently:
Only fluent in English
Learning Indonesian
(kind of)Studying Spanish
(was)Studying Arabic
My future post will be...
Fluent in English, Spanish, Indonesian and Arabic.
Deciding on which one of these languages to study..FIRST!...
German
French
Hindi
Mandarin
Japanese
Korean...
(Man, I have a sick obsession with languagesO_o)
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Post by juancarlos on Aug 29, 2008 21:24:12 GMT -5
1. Tagalog - beginning to lose fluency since I don't use it a lot anymore
2. English
3. Spanish
4. French - barely able to speak it
5. Portuguese - can understand only
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Post by halfbreed on Aug 30, 2008 20:10:07 GMT -5
1. English
2. German (though not fluent, yet)
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quiapo
Junior Member
Posts: 188
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Post by quiapo on Oct 12, 2008 17:06:53 GMT -5
I guess we need a definition of mother language - is it the language spoken at home as a child, or the language you tend to think in, or the language of the dominant culture where you grew up? For some of us it is not easy to answer.
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Dirt
Junior Member
Historian
Posts: 154
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Post by Dirt on Oct 13, 2008 23:15:47 GMT -5
1. ilongo
2. english
3. tagalog
xD
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quiapo
Junior Member
Posts: 188
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Post by quiapo on Oct 14, 2008 4:57:25 GMT -5
chineseeyes - have you ever wondered why they are insisting that chinese should be your mother tongue? It is presumptuous of them to do so, and I wonder if it has to do with their own comfort zone and what identity they prefer for you.
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Post by Micha on Oct 14, 2008 11:29:05 GMT -5
1. English
2. Hokkien
Singlish ... or rather Manglish in my instance, sure can lah?
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furbob
Full Member
Can I has?
Posts: 247
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Post by furbob on Oct 25, 2008 7:44:46 GMT -5
1- Australian/British/American/English
2- Cantonese....kinda, mum quit me from chinese school when I was 4 so I'm slowly relearning >=(
3- Japanese....learning at school for subject o.o
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Post by syn on Nov 11, 2008 7:46:26 GMT -5
my mother spoke czech/english/yiddish/japanese (and recognizes, knows a little polish, russian, german, tagalog (a result of her first marriage), portuegese and currently attempting to learn spanish) but she was and is a lousy teacher. She speaks in english, but mostly 'curses' in czech or japanese ... assuming others around her will not understand.
my first usages weren't in english. But overall I'm more fluent in english.
I know enough czech, hebrew, japanese to get by ... when needed.
I understand some asl, chinese (written more), yiddish, french and a little russian and thai (spoken).
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Post by soldat on Nov 13, 2008 18:45:41 GMT -5
Russian
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Post by bluegum on Nov 15, 2008 19:58:01 GMT -5
English
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Post by EA Observer on Nov 15, 2008 22:57:18 GMT -5
Korean
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