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| dan.ger Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 3855 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: German*, Swedish, English Studies: Turkish | Message 41 of 61 10 June 2014 at 2:50pm | IP Logged |
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Had to start with English in 5th grade (~10 years old).
I was 30 when I started with Swedish. Turkish: 2014 (32 years old) toki pona: June 2014 Edited by dan.ger on 10 June 2014 at 2:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4846 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 42 of 61 11 June 2014 at 3:23am | IP Logged |
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What age was I? It depends on what you mean by "learning". If you mean dedicated, consistent effort to learn a language, then I started two years ago with Japanese, at the age of 34.
But if you mean any type of effort, then it would be Spanish at the age of 10. My family moved to Atlanta and I saw Spanish-language television for the first time. I thought it was cool, and my mother bought me a used high school Spanish textbook (and a French and German one, for some reason!). I leafed through it from time to time and picked up a few phrases, but I was never really serious about it, and now I can't speak Spanish by any means. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Jellitto Diglot Newbie Finland Joined 4899 days ago 17 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: German, Swedish, Japanese | Message 43 of 61 21 June 2014 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
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English when I was 9 years old.
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| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5125 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 44 of 61 22 June 2014 at 11:51am | IP Logged |
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I was 4 or 5 when my mum started teaching me German through songs, poems and games, I also had some German fairy tales on VHS cassettes.
I was 5 when I started to participate in my kindergarden's English class, 2 times a week, so much fun, I still can recall some moments. Edited by Gosiak on 22 June 2014 at 11:52am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6658 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 45 of 61 23 June 2014 at 9:17pm | IP Logged |
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I started French at the age of 6. I changed schools and didn't get much French until high school. I added Spanish at 15 in high school.
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| Lugubert Heptaglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6866 days ago 186 posts - 235 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Danish, Norwegian, EnglishC2, German, Dutch, French Studies: Mandarin, Hindi | Message 46 of 61 26 June 2014 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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Disregarding the few random words of English and German I absorbed from my parents, my formal start was English in school at the age of 11. Then followed equally compulsive German (13) and French (14).
Mother had had German, English and some French in school (in that order in those days! and father the merchant navy captain had added bits and pieces from several parts of the world in addition to being taught English). What was the thread title again? Anyway, at 24 I absorbed a fair Dutch in 1½ months during summer work in Shell/Amsterdam. At that time, I had started Arabic to support my planned further studies of oil chemistry. Two semesters of Classical Arabic (the fact that there were several spoken modern Arabic languages hadn't really been absorbed by the Professor...) lead (long story) to Sanskrit - I had been fascinated by India since reading a Swedish translation of Kipling's Kim at the age of ca. 11. Somewhere in between, I picked up some tourist-plus Spanish from books and vacations in the Canary Islands. Fast forward to post-retirement, and I started Chinese. Just because. Well, I thought I might be able to understand how I learned languages when picking a totally different one. Also, perhaps I could get some insight in how my brain works when I translate (my profession). Double fail. As with subsequent languages, I get too interested in the languages themselves to concentrate on the learning and translation processes... Languages started at 60+, mostly at two of Sweden's major universities, include the above-mentioned Chinese (which resulted in a major in my 2nd linguistic B.A.), Russian (just waiting to again get resurrected from adult acquiring high school level - think of all the superb dictionaries and grammars in Russian for lots of languages), two full semesters of Bible Hebrew (but abandoned BD studies for various reasons, lacking not much more than the final thesis), two full semesters of Modern Standard Arabic, a smattering of modern Persian (corresponding to ½ full time semester), almost 2 semesters of Hindi which included a month plus in Himalayan Mussoorie. Almost got into Welsh, and have had a beginning glance at Finnish. Rather embarrassing not to know a neighbour language. If I've forgotten to mention any studied languages above, I probably have forgotten them... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6124 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 47 of 61 30 June 2014 at 6:16am | IP Logged |
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Was 7th grade, I guess 12 years old when I started taking Spanish classes in Jr. High school. Don't remember much of it though.
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| PianoFish Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3808 days ago 11 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 48 of 61 03 July 2014 at 5:46pm | IP Logged |
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I was taught my first few phrases in Japanese by my cousin when I was about 6, I started learning French at 11 in school.
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