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| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5193 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 100 10 September 2010 at 12:39pm | IP Logged |
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I was having a conversation with a few of my German friends and a couple of other people
from Finland. If we had the choice to pick any language in the world that is currently in used as a mother language. Would we change our native language to X language or would we rather keep our native language. So I want to know if others would change their native language to another or not. If you would tell us what language. (Sorry if this topic was already done in the past.) Edited by zekecoma on 10 September 2010 at 12:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5526 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 2 of 100 10 September 2010 at 1:09pm | IP Logged |
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I would, probably to Spanish. I'd go with Spanish because it's an important language and
is not too different from other leading languages to make learning others difficult. I'd avoid the likes of English because the comfort factor may make me settle for just English or whatever else is in the same league. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kary Groupie Canada Joined 5998 days ago 85 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish, German | Message 3 of 100 10 September 2010 at 1:13pm | IP Logged |
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As much as I enjoy languages, I am a terrible language learner. Getting English "for free" is like winning the lottery. I would, however, have loved to have two or more "mother" languages, then English and French would be my preference.
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| mpete16 Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5371 days ago 98 posts - 114 votes Speaks: Tagalog, English* Studies: German | Message 4 of 100 10 September 2010 at 1:23pm | IP Logged |
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What about being a native speaker of every language in the world?
Just kidding. I would definitely stick with English. It gives me a huge advantage over my German speaking friends (and others whose mother tongue isn't English). Or perhaps English and German. I'm not sure. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5068 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 5 of 100 10 September 2010 at 1:30pm | IP Logged |
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Ooohhh, the choices.
I don't think I'd prefer one language but if I get chance to come back to this world could I come back as the child of an English/Japanese parents but grow up in Italy ? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5416 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 6 of 100 10 September 2010 at 1:46pm | IP Logged |
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I'm pretty glad my native language is English. Seeing as how it's become the de facto international language, I was going to end up learning it anyways if I wanted to know multiple languages. Also, since just about everybody in the world wants to speak my language, this facilitates language exchange and hopefully will one day give me opportunities to teach my language overseas.
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| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5297 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 7 of 100 10 September 2010 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
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I would say Inuktitut.
I love Korean too, but I sometimes feel that many Koreans are not as loving towards it. Edited by chucknorrisman on 10 September 2010 at 6:05pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5670 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic | Message 8 of 100 10 September 2010 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
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I have to agree with some of the others; I sometimes used to wish I had a different
native language, but I've now come to appreciate having English "for free". But it definitely would have been nice to have been raised bi-lingually. I would've chosen to be raised with English/Icelandic or English/Swedish. Then my sister and I would have a "secret" language to boot ;-D 1 person has voted this message useful |
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