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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4445 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 57 of 58 22 February 2013 at 6:31am | IP Logged |
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There is 1 language on my list: Chinese because it is my mother-tongue. Learned to write traditional
characters in class many years ago. Maintaining fluency has been up and down over the years until the Internet came along with all sorts of videos in specific languages. Being online all the time learned to read simplified Chinese characters as well. Many years ago my mother got the kids Gr. 1 level story books in Chinese with lots of pictures. The books were printed with the characters in vertical columns from right to left. (When you're online typing E-mails everybody just input characters from L to R like English). With the best intentions we soon lost interest because we found mom to be a demanding teacher. My older siblings kept up with spoken Chinese because they find it useful in the workplace but have very limited ability to write the characters. I once travelled back East and met a travelling companion in the same tour. We exchanged letters in Chinese a few times a year for more than 10 years. Like myself, he started learning traditional characters by memory and recently started learning Pinyin phonetics for computer input. He has as many reasons as myself for keeping up. Rather unusual for someone who has a Chinese ancestry, came from a small town in Ohio and ended up in another small town in N. Carolina. As American as he can be, somehow he still finds attachment to the local Chinese community barely a few thousand in population. And he takes all sorts of university language courses on the side. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4300 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 58 of 58 26 February 2013 at 12:24am | IP Logged |
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Would I be a weirdo if I say I was obligated to learn English?
When I was 3 I was exposed to English by my father. The thing with him though is that he has a particularly unstable temper, and every single time that I had a lesson from him, he always managed to make me cry. I avoided it as much as possible, but then my mom took it as her responsibility to teach me vocabulary for hours without letting me go out for a breath of fresh air. When I went to school I was fairly good at English, and it was never really hard for me to pick up English when I immigrated to Canada, but I guess if something is associated with bad memories early on, it scars you for life. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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