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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5677 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes  Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 9 of 14 26 April 2010 at 10:12am | IP Logged |
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I grew up speaking a few languages, but the first one I "learned" was English. I was
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| TheodoreL Newbie France Joined 5310 days ago 4 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Occitan* | Message 10 of 14 12 May 2010 at 5:09pm | IP Logged |
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As a french man, my first learned language was, both, French and Occitan( I listened and learned the local variety of that language in a tiny town of Perigord called "Thiviers"). Occitan learned together with French was a very important experience, my grand-father spoke it very well, and it was , probably, the origin of my own interest to study languages. Ió parle l'occitan dau Lemosin (I speak occitan from Limousin) Jo, que parli l'occitan de Gasconha( I speak occitan from Gascogne) Ieu parli l'occitan de Lengadoc( I speak occitan from Languedoc) Thanks the experience of occitan language (a language with a dialectal variety) both with French I studied Spanish, catalan, Italian, portuguese, and above all romanian (I am very fond of that Eastern romance language), English and German at the High School,romanian and russian (my russian is the worst ever, it is very very basic, like my latin or my greek). Today, I am living in a tiny town in South West of France called Pau, twinned with a lot of other cities in the world and I took the twinning/"jumelage" like a challenge to study their languages: Pau is twinned with Zaragoza(Spanish), with Pistoia(Italian), with Swansea/Abertawe(English and Welsh/Cymraeg), with Setúbal(Portuguese), with Göttingen(German), Xian(Chinese) and Kofu(Japanese). I regert there is no Romanian, a language I speak. Why not, if I 'll success I shall be very happy. Excuse me if I was so long, but I think that a first emotional experience with a language can be a "click" (in French "un déclic") 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5523 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 11 of 14 12 May 2010 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
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Cajun French/Ancient Greek
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| paparaciii Diglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6336 days ago 204 posts - 223 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian Studies: English | Message 12 of 14 23 May 2010 at 11:53pm | IP Logged |
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Russian/English
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| LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5310 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 13 of 14 24 May 2010 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
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Technically Italian, although it was only the numbers, hello, goodbye and stuff like that. It was occasional at school for a year whilst I was 7 and I have now lost almost all of it.
To my eternal regret, my mum felt that her French wasn't good enough to bring me up bilingual, so I've had to learn it the hard way, over 8 years at school I'm now at about B1 with another year (probably) to go. So I'd say that French would be my first L2. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6439 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 14 of 14 24 May 2010 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
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Irish was the first language I started to learn, at about 4 in school, and through immersion summer courses (extremely popular among Irish students), I'm not pretty good, not absolutely fluent, but it's by far my best language, C1 I'd say, possibly high B2.
My mother is a French teacher, so I started learning French with her when I was about 11. I'm pretty good, B1 bordering B2, but my pronunciation is pretty much perfect, because I never had the chance to develop bad habits. German I learned at school from the age of 12, and didn't really like it very much, although I was good at it, until I did a three week immersion course. Now I'm improving rapidly, my grammar is very good, and my vocabulary is expanding as I read more German books, listen to more music etc. I don't have much experience with the dialects, so I'd say I'm probably B1, but I am improving rapidly. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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