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Would you change your native language

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Thatzright
Diglot
Senior Member
Finland
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202 posts - 311 votes 
Speaks: Finnish*, English
Studies: French, Swedish, German, Russian

 
 Message 97 of 100
15 February 2011 at 11:36am | IP Logged 
I probably wouldn't, but if I did, I'd want it to be another language that is considered quite "complex", like Hungarian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese or something. The latter two would also be beneficial in that they'd give easy access to writing systems other than the Latin alphabet. Then again with a new native language would also most likely come a new native land, and since my country's living standards are very high and it's a great place in general, I probably wouldn't want to be born anywhere else.
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yawn
Bilingual Tetraglot
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United States
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141 posts - 209 votes 
Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2
Studies: GermanB1

 
 Message 98 of 100
18 February 2011 at 10:34pm | IP Logged 
English and Mandarin? No way; you know why I wouldn't change either of these! :D I'm just a bit sad that my mom
didn't become fluent in Japanese (she had parents who spoke it fluently due to the Japanese occupation of Taiwan,
and studied it for two years at her university and was praised by her prof). I could've been trilingual since birth :(
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w432w
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Russian Federation
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Studies: English

 
 Message 99 of 100
27 February 2011 at 9:53pm | IP Logged 
it's very intresting question
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LouisaBalata
Triglot
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France
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Speaks: French*, English, Arabic (classical)
Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Persian, Modern Hebrew

 
 Message 100 of 100
02 March 2011 at 8:20am | IP Logged 
I would definitively like to trade my french for arabic ( with gulf, levantine or iraqi dialecy ) ... Or maybe a small
language nearly no one knows ( and being bilingual in arabic anyway ! ).


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