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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6144 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 33 of 34 12 July 2009 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
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I am almost completely Greek. Six out of my eight great-grandparents were born in Greece and spoke Greek natively. However, because of lack of motivation and excuses, I didn't end up being a native Greek speaker. My father spoke pretty fluent Greek, but was too lazy, and my mom didn't speak well enough and spoke thde Cretan dialect anyways. However, I can understand spoken Greek pretty well because I have been hearing it since I was little from various relatives, but not enough to be speaking it natively. However, I have been brought to Greece ever since I was little too and this was good. And I was taught the alphabet when I was seven so I can read very well.
For French, it turned out to be a positive thing. At the end of my sixth grade year when we were signing up for classes for seventh grade, we had the option to start a foreign language (or two). I had already been doing Spanish at my bilingual elementary school and knew how to speak the language but had no knowledge of the actual workings of the language, so I took Spanish. My father told me not to take French (the other language offered) because it would be too much, and it I wanted, I could take it in high school. In eighth grade, I started doing self-study for French (my first self-study lanbguage that I followed through with) and I learned enough in less than a year to skip two years of school French and went into level 3, whereas if I had taken French in middle school, I would only have gotten to level 2. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Minlawc Newbie United States Joined 6534 days ago 24 posts - 56 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 34 of 34 13 July 2009 at 3:50am | IP Logged |
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German/Pennsylvanian German. I grew up around, and was babysat by, Amish. plus my Aunt is native German.
Spanish. I had a great high school teacher (With a Spanish only policy), but I had a lack of interest and motivation an dropped out of the class. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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