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| palfrey Senior Member Canada Joined 5274 days ago 81 posts - 180 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 25 of 29 15 October 2012 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | ||
A bit off-topic, but one thing I've wanted to ask you about for a while: Where English and French are concerned, are you one of those fortunate natural bilinguals? That is, someone who grew up surrounded by both languages, learning them as a native speaker, without any conscious effort? From what I've heard, this seems to be fairly common in Montreal, for example. Not that I doubt your language learning abilities -- your success with Japanese alone establishes that -- but I wonder when I see how good your English is. (And in comparison, how inept my French is.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 26 of 29 15 October 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
No. I grew up in Sorel, close to Trois-Rivières, in a linguistic environment that was very monolithically French (98.5% of the population has French as a first language) and where English was never heard. My parents don't really speak English, although my dad sort of gets by. It wasn’t until I moved to Montréal at 18 that I first had access to English speakers. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| palfrey Senior Member Canada Joined 5274 days ago 81 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 27 of 29 15 October 2012 at 11:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well! To be honest, that wasn't the answer I had expected :) I thought for sure you must have grown up with English alongside French. That's very impressive.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 28 of 29 16 October 2012 at 12:21am | IP Logged | ||
Out of curiosity, where have you heard me speak? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| palfrey Senior Member Canada Joined 5274 days ago 81 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 29 of 29 16 October 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||
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My view of your English was based purely on your writing. I had never heard your voice. But since you ask, I poked around on the web and found the piece on hyperployglots produced by "16x9 - The Bigger Picture" a few months ago:
http://www.globalnews.ca/video/word+play/video.html?v=223130 9265#video http://www.mezzoguild.com/2012/05/06/hyperpolyglots-on-16x9- the-bigger-picture/ You speak English only briefly, but what was said sounded native to me. Edited by palfrey on 16 October 2012 at 6:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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