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| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5472 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 65 of 100 30 January 2011 at 1:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Never. As much as I love English, and as much as I feel drawn to other languages I'm studying or plan to study, I love Spanish. My native language is like a family to me.
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| Keilan Senior Member Canada Joined 5087 days ago 125 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 66 of 100 30 January 2011 at 5:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I would definitely not change from English, simply because of it's usefulness. There are all kinds of advantages to speaking English with native speaker fluency.
However, if I could have been raised bilingually, I would pick the furthest removed language from English possible. Something with tones, all kinds of gutteral sounds and clicks and an alphabet as far from the Latin one as possible. I'm not sure what language that would be though, probably something from Africa somewhere. I can't complain about what I have, as I got English "for free"... but if I were to ask for more, it would be native speaker ability to pronounce sounds like the French "r" and the German "ch". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| HenryMW Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5175 days ago 125 posts - 179 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, French Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 67 of 100 30 January 2011 at 6:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I would never give up American English. That being said, I think it must be interesting to grow up speaking a language that is very close to others, like the Romance languages or the Scandinavian languages. Whenever I see something in German that is very close to English, it's like running into a friend in a foreign city.
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6373 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 68 of 100 30 January 2011 at 9:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Not a chance in hell. Having English as your first language is a huge leg up in the
world. I would like to have been brought up bilingual though. Edited by zerothinking on 30 January 2011 at 9:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| RedBlaze Diglot Newbie Italy Joined 5104 days ago 10 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: Swedish, Danish | Message 69 of 100 30 January 2011 at 12:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Honestly, yes, I would. I am not particularly in love with my native language, and I probably would have never learned it as a second language. I have to agree on the opinion that English as a first language is just too advantageous to pass up.
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| SallImSayin Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5767 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Swahili, Lingala, Igbo | Message 70 of 100 30 January 2011 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I'd choose Kikongo (ethnic) or Yoruba.
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| 98789 Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 5044 days ago 48 posts - 55 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English | Message 71 of 100 03 February 2011 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll choose Arabic because they have a lot of sounds ... the hardest part of learning a foreign language (at least for me) is to learn the pronunciation (memorize rules is easy compared to that)... Spanish is so poor in sounds :( I feel really sad about that ...
(Chinese or French are also "multisounds" languages, but I really prefer Arabic -arabic have influenced most of the modern languages-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 72 of 100 04 February 2011 at 2:19am | IP Logged | ||
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