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Post by Erich von Manstein on Sept 23, 2016 3:39:34 GMT
Mandarin as main, studying English since kindergarten, French since high school. Still trying to get rid of Chinese accent(my father says it would be a shame for me if I still don't have a perfect American accent after years of studying in US).
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Post by Mountbatten on Sept 23, 2016 3:42:15 GMT
Mandarin as main, studying English since kindergarten, French since high school. Still trying to get rid of Chinese accent(my father says it would be a big shame for me if I still don't have a perfect American accent after years of studying in US). All of my close family members were able to develop nearly flawless American accents. Nobody can even tell where I'm from. |
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 23, 2016 4:32:36 GMT
American Sign Language as my primary main, English as my secondary main (I must use the written form of English in schools to survive anyway  ). I am fluent in multiple dialects of ASL (Think of the heavy regionalism effect in languages of India, it's almost like that just less of an effect),fluent not just for my own home region, almost all of the Eastern US dialects. I still stumble upon an unfamiliar term from various people from time to time. Of course, once understood in the proper context, it's not hard for me as a native speaker to pick it up. |
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Post by granny's terror on Sept 23, 2016 8:29:33 GMT
I mainly speak Urdu,Punjabi for old people,and English where needed.Now I'm kinda trying to learn French.And I can speak all three above mentioned languages in their original accent.Urdu and Punjabi are my main languages cuz these were the ones I started talking in.I later started learning English in 3rd grade,at the small age of 7.
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Sept 23, 2016 9:30:23 GMT
I mainly speak Urdu,Punjabi for old people,and English where needed.Now I'm kinda trying to learn French.And I can speak all three above mentioned languages in their original accent.Urdu and Punjabi are my main languages cuz these were the ones I started talking in.I later started learning English in 3rd grade,at the small age of 7. I can understand Punjabi completely but it's difficult for me to speak it |
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Post by granny's terror on Sept 23, 2016 10:12:40 GMT
Why?Don't the bros living in Karachi speak Punjabi,and by the way you can speak in Sindhi,right?
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Sept 23, 2016 10:25:33 GMT
Why?Don't the bros living in Karachi speak Punjabi,and by the way you can speak in Sindhi,right? eh, Sindhi ain't my thing (grandparents from India tho) , and us Karachiites are more used to Urdu compared to Punjabi. |
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Post by Bismarck Jr on Sept 23, 2016 11:00:51 GMT
American Sign Language as my primary main, English as my secondary main (I must use the written form of English in schools to survive anyway ). I am fluent in multiple dialects of ASL (Think of the heavy regionalism effect in languages of India, it's almost like that just less of an effect),fluent not just for my own home region, almost all of the Eastern US dialects. I still stumble upon an unfamiliar term from various people from time to time. Of course, once understood in the proper context, it's not hard for me as a native speaker to pick it up. You cannot speak orally? |
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Sept 23, 2016 11:27:42 GMT
American Sign Language as my primary main, English as my secondary main (I must use the written form of English in schools to survive anyway ). I am fluent in multiple dialects of ASL (Think of the heavy regionalism effect in languages of India, it's almost like that just less of an effect),fluent not just for my own home region, almost all of the Eastern US dialects. I still stumble upon an unfamiliar term from various people from time to time. Of course, once understood in the proper context, it's not hard for me as a native speaker to pick it up. You cannot speak orally? he's deaf |
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Post by Tito on Sept 23, 2016 12:39:24 GMT
English German Swiss Austrian kidna Russian Bosnian Croatian Serbian Bulgar Romanian Slovenian, I am from Bosnia if you know onr slavic laguange you bassicly know all of them because thry are almost thr same
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Sept 23, 2016 13:49:19 GMT
English German Swiss Austrian kidna Russian Bosnian Croatian Serbian Bulgar Romanian Slovenian, I am from Bosnia if you know onr slavic laguange you bassicly know all of them because thry are almost thr same Swiss? That's not a language? It's either Swiss German, or Swiss French or Swiss Italian or Romansh. |
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 23, 2016 13:51:52 GMT
Bismarck Jr, Napoleon Bonaparte I can speak English, but it's with a heavy accent. I prefer to not use it. Besides, the hearing people speaks the oral languages so badly without awareness of how difficult it is to properly lip-read them. So... the simple obvious solution for me is to stick to a written form of communication between me and those people. Unless he know ASL, then I would speak to him in that language verbally.
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Post by Laurent de Gouvion on Sept 23, 2016 13:53:15 GMT
English German Swiss Austrian kidna Russian Bosnian Croatian Serbian Bulgar Romanian Slovenian, I am from Bosnia if you know onr slavic laguange you bassicly know all of them because thry are almost thr same Swiss? That's not a language? It's either Swiss German, or Swiss French or Swiss Italian or Romansh. I believe Austrian isn't a language too, more of a dialect of sorts. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Picard on Sept 23, 2016 14:36:25 GMT
Bismarck Jr, Napoleon Bonaparte I can speak English, but it's with a heavy accent. I prefer to not use it. Besides, the hearing people speaks the oral languages so badly without awareness of how difficult it is to properly lip-read them. So... the simple obvious solution for me is to stick to a written form of communication between me and those people. Unless he know ASL, then I would speak to him in that language verbally. Is it harder to lip-read people with foreign accents? Just curious |
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Post by NetherFreek on Sept 23, 2016 14:38:49 GMT
Dutch (0 years old), native
Enlgish (4 yo), obligated by law
French (11 yo), obligated by law
Latin (12 yo), obligated by students lvl
Basic spanish, italian and other european languages (12 yo), obligated by law
German (13 yo), obligated by law
Greek (14 yo), obligated by students lvl
15 yo, the dropping. Remained:
German
English
Dutch
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