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| Sturmkind Tetraglot Newbie Germany Joined 5487 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: German*, English, Latin, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 25 of 98 16 November 2009 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I guess my first experience with foreign language was something I didn't even consciously notice - the songs my mom listened to. I remember myself dancing and humming (sometimes even singing) along to them without understanding them. (They were all English). The first experience that really sparked my interest in foreign languages was my brother speaking English after he came home from school just to show off what he had learned. I wanted to be able to do that, too. They didn't teach foreign languages at my elementary school so I bought myself special magazines from Disney that came with videos and taught me some very basic English.
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| jessikt Triglot Groupie Austria ichestudiolangues.co Joined 5834 days ago 98 posts - 102 votes  Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: SpanishA2, Swedish | Message 26 of 98 17 November 2009 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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My earliest foreign language memory is from my first year of school (I was in French Immersion in Canada) when I
was 4 or 5 and we began learning French. We were taught that "Je m'appelle" means "My name is" and I thought that it was cool that this word looked like "apple" but meant "My name is"! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Morak99 Newbie United States Joined 5485 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 27 of 98 18 November 2009 at 4:11am | IP Logged | ||
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My grandparents went to France when I was very young, 4 or 5 at the most, and purchaced a kiddie French book for me. It was just a bunch of basic vocabulary. I had completly forgoten about it until I found it in a closet a few months ago.
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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6437 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 28 of 98 18 November 2009 at 5:26am | IP Logged | ||
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When I was a kid, about 6 or 7, I wanted to watch a soccer game on TV (I played in a junior soccer league) but the only soccer games were on the Spanish channel. I remember thinking it sounded funny cuz I had only heard English up through that time.
I remember "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!" Hehe. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6437 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 29 of 98 18 November 2009 at 5:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Wait, scratch that.
When I was in preschool they tried to teach us French, but I remember not liking it. They gave us these cards (small squares of paper, actually) with a picture of a thing on it and the French word. I remember Airplane being "avion" (I think that's how you spell it). I remember the teacher saying "avion" to me. I remembered that over 10 years later randomly when I saw a French book in a store. I was like "oh yeah, they tried to teach us French in preschool. I remember the word for 'airplane.' It's 'avion'." I remember how to pronounce it in French, too. THAT'S my earliest memory. They tried to teach us French, but I didn't even know what French was. I just remembered "airplane" cuz I thought airplanes were cool and my father was a pilot. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 30 of 98 22 November 2009 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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My first experience was in Kindergarten when my teacher tried to teach us sign language. When ever we wanted permission for something, like using the restroom, we would raise our hands and give her the hand sign for bathroom. Forgot most of it by the time I went to elementary school, but it gave me the impression that all languages have the same grammar, that learning a language was jut converting words in English into another language. It took until my school started making us take Spanish classes, and specifically learning about reflexive verbs that I realized how wrong that was.
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| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5765 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 32 of 98 23 November 2009 at 7:32am | IP Logged | ||
And the teachers apparently don't know that most sign languages have a grammar wildly different to English. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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