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| abr Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5480 days ago 40 posts - 62 votes  Speaks: Russian* Studies: English, Spanish | Message 17 of 21 19 April 2010 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Moreover, there is far more motivation to learn English than any other language taking into account it's current position. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 18 of 21 19 April 2010 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Exactly what I was thinking :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 19 of 21 19 April 2010 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I would not swap English for anything, it is the most useful language in the world, and I would not swap my native Norwegian for anything either, but I might consider to swap my Italian for Russian, and my French for Arabic or Mandarin. I could always relearn French and Italian.
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| lynxrunner Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States crittercryptics.com Joined 5922 days ago 361 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Haitian Creole | Message 20 of 21 19 April 2010 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
However, you wouldn't be able to learn your English to the same level. You probably wouldn't have a native accent (and foreign accents are appealing only to those who don't have them); you'd make many mistakes, and even when close to fluency you might not use the same structures a native speaker would use; it would take a while to learn to a good level (which takes time away from other languages, perhaps? ;) ); you lose cultural connotations you had. My dad speaks English fluently but I speak English natively and he sometimes has to ask me about words. He can't tell the difference between "ship" and "sheep", for example. Don't take the ability to relearn English for granted. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| apatch3 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6185 days ago 80 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Pashto, English* Studies: Japanese, FrenchA2 | Message 21 of 21 20 April 2010 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'd never swap my native English fluency for anything! It'd be quite a foolish decision for someone make if you ask me, seeing as it's importance is undisputed and one would be cut off from the media/literature/music that they'd grown up along side. I fail to see how anyone on earth would want something like that! On that note I wouldn't mind trading my pashto fluency in for Japanese (I was raised bilingually so swapping the two around would let me speak japanese like a native) Pashto is the language of 2 very backward regions media in pashto doesn't interest me nor do I share the same mindset as most of its speakers hence trading it in wouldn't really mean losing much. Although thinking about it now, my parents would probably be inconsolable if I happened to forget their language. Edited by apatch3 on 20 April 2010 at 10:23am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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