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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4664 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 9 of 12 07 February 2015 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
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The most common reactions when people find out that I learn multiple languages are "That's cool, I wish I could do that" and "How do you not mix them all up?" Then again, I currently learn fairly typical languages for an American. Maybe if some day I learned Vietnamese or Arabic and mentioned that I speak them I would get the "you're weird" reaction. Edited by tastyonions on 07 February 2015 at 4:45pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5379 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 10 of 12 08 February 2015 at 9:32pm | IP Logged |
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I think this is a good weird! :) At least here in the US people are usually extremely impressed, even if they think learning a less common language is the most inexplicable thing they've ever heard of.
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| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5058 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 11 of 12 08 February 2015 at 11:06pm | IP Logged |
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If you've learned your friend's language in the meantime and you're ready to speak it with them fluently and
naturally, it should be no problem. The trickier case is where you've learned your friend's language in the meantime, but you still don't communicate as well as you do in your native language. You might want to speak with them for fun/practice, but it's awkward because your communication quality is decreased. In my opinion, I wouldn't switch a friendship over to the friend's native language while our communication quality is still better in English. But I've had friends with whom I've scheduled "language hours" where we switched to their native language, and that's usually fun and not weird. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4443 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 12 of 12 09 February 2015 at 4:25am | IP Logged |
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The first time coming out you should try to be open and honest. Inform the native-speaker that you have been
going to class for X number of months and feel that you are at a certain level. Ask the other person if it is ok to speak to him / her in a language once in a while just for practice. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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