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| aionis Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5468 days ago 3 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian | Message 1 of 14 30 December 2009 at 2:16am | IP Logged |
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I'm curious about people's experience with their first acquired language other than the one they were raised speaking. How did you learn it, and do you still use it?
For me, my first learned language was Spanish, through middle and high school. I still use it occasionally, but I'm terrible at using it orally. I can read a Spanish newspaper, but might not be able to hold a conversation for long. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rabochnok Diglot Newbie Colombia Joined 5610 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Persian | Message 2 of 14 30 December 2009 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
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My first learned language was Spanish, starting in elementary. A generic sort of Latin American Spanish, mostly things like colors, numbers, etc. I learned a bit, and did well on tests and stuff, but never really got far.
Kinda weird that I was never taught Spanish at home (in the US; my mom and older brother are Colombian, dad and grandma Americans), but that's apparently because my American family worried being bilingual would ruin my English speech. Heh, even though I grew up with just English, I still had problems with the th sounds (still do, actually). Anyway, I only really used Spanish in school and once in a while on the phone with Colombian relatives (repeating what mom'd tell me to say, with horrible pronunciation). It wasn't until I came to live in Colombia in 2007 that I really began to learn Spanish. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5904 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 3 of 14 17 February 2010 at 12:23pm | IP Logged |
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My first foreign language learnt (at school, from last two years of elemantary in Belgium - that is from 10 years of age) was French, standard not Walloon French. But I speak it the worst still... my English is mostly selftaught, my Korean even these days is getting better than my French, as is my Esperanto definitly, and my Xhosa is gonna catch up soon...
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| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5469 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 4 of 14 17 February 2010 at 7:12pm | IP Logged |
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I learnt French fluently when I was 5-6.
Immersion really works because we were staying at a hotel in a city for 1-2 months and I hardly learnt any French at all, but then my parents found a cheap bungalo to rent in a village and I had to go to the local school and follow lessons (in French: no one there spoke English). Within 3 months I spoke fluent French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5612 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 5 of 14 18 February 2010 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
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Spanish was my first language. I learned it in my teens growing up in South Florida where
there are large Hispanic communities. I use it on a daily basis since I still live here and have many Hispanic friends whom I often converse with in Spanish instead of English. It is my strongest language other than my native English and Arabic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| The_Beholder Tetraglot Newbie Croatia Joined 5432 days ago 30 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, German, FrenchB1 Studies: Japanese | Message 6 of 14 20 February 2010 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
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My first learned language was English. I've been learning it in elementary school and high school. However, if I hadn't been immersed in it all the time (internet, movies, music) I doubt I would've learned it very well.
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| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5339 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 7 of 14 18 April 2010 at 12:00am | IP Logged |
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My first learned language was Spanish. School+taught myself+environment.
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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6186 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 14 26 April 2010 at 9:27am | IP Logged |
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I started learning Japanese in my third year of high school. I stopped formally learning (at both the incredibly slow classroom pace and the language altogether) after 3 years and stopped speaking a year after that.
Now I struggle to speak Japanese although I can still understand at a similar level. I still have plans to recover what I lost and expand my vocabulary, but I admit that speaking is not on my agenda. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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