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| HKCanadian Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4852 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English, Cantonese* Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 153 of 204 15 January 2011 at 4:19am | IP Logged |
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I'm 26.
Cantonese Chinese: I was born in Hong Kong and even though I immigrated to Canada at age 4, my parents refused to speak to me in any language but Cantonese in my developing years, so I'm conversationally fluent. My reading/writing leaves a LOT to be desired, though, so I've started working on that again lately. English: Native fluency since it's the language I was schooled in and immersed in from age 4 and on. French: I'm at the A2 level. I studied French for many years at school (O Canada!) but didn't progress to fluency before my classes ended. I'm better at reading/writing/speaking than I am at listening though, so I need to find ways to improve my French listening skills. I'm currently enrolled in a class at Alliance Francaise, so I'm hoping practice will help. My goal is to have advanced fluency (can have conversations about non-technical things, be able to read newspapers, watch movies, etc.) by the time I'm 28. Mandarin Chinese: I just signed up for a class this week, and class starts in a few weeks. Despite my background in Cantonese, I have had little to no exposure to Mandarin, so I'm starting as a beginner. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| manyvan2000 Diglot Newbie United States enpakkal.blogspot.co Joined 4846 days ago 3 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Tamil*, EnglishC2 | Message 154 of 204 19 January 2011 at 2:04am | IP Logged |
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33.
Tamil: Mother tongue, but still have a lot to learn :). English: Moved to US when I was 26. Still learning. Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam: Learned the basics and know enough to get around places. Need to start learning in depth. Can read / write. Mandarin: Started learning when I was 25. Stopped when I moved to the US. Started learning again last week. Learned about a couple of hundred words. Russian: Started and stopped along with Mandarin. Can read / write, basic conversation level. Japanese: Similar to Mandarin / Russian. Can read / write hiragana and katakana. Basic conversation level. Spanish: Has been in my hit-list since I moved to the US. Have just started learning it seriously. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Darya0Khoshki Triglot Groupie United States Joined 4856 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Iraqi) Studies: Persian | Message 155 of 204 19 January 2011 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
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I'll be 25 next month :-( , and here are my languages in order of level:
English: native Arabic: Started teaching myself when I was 15, then studied formally from age 16 on in university and private lessons, and a lot of self study. Modern Standard is what I study, read, etc. but I speak Iraqi because I was in Iraq and I can understand all the dialects - except for the North African ones, which aren't really Arabic.:-) I have a pretty thorough knowledge of the language but I'm trying to exhaust it even more. Farsi: Started a few months ago (age 24) and I'm at an intermediate level. I can understand the main points of a news report, for example, but I still need to increase my vocab. I can talk about myself and stuff, but I feel like I make a lot of mistakes because I don't have anyone to practice with and correct me. Kurdish: Had to learn it in Kurdistan (age 22-24), but feel embarrassed that my Kurdish is so bad because it should have been easy to pick up having known Arabic. But having to learn in an immersion situation was actually not a good method for me because I was forced to use it before I really could, and I do much better building a foundation on my own without fear of being embarrassed. I can have a basic every day conversation, but with lots of grammatical mistakes and Arabic words mixed in. I'd like to study it more after my Farsi gets stronger, but it's hard to find resources, especially for the dialect of the region where I was living. Languages I DON'T speak at all (AT ALL) but had to or at one time did study: Spanish: Had little bits of it in school off and on since age 6 and in college. French: Took one semester and remember a few words. Hebrew: Had to do a project on it for linguistics class and learn basic phrases. Russian: Taught myself basic phrases when I was 10. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alexander.Stoma Bilingual Triglot Groupie Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6091 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: Russian*, Belarusian*, EnglishB2 Studies: Spanish | Message 156 of 204 19 January 2011 at 7:56am | IP Logged |
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I'm 32 years old.
Belarusian: Native Russian: Native English: Intermidiate, learned it in school, just now learning by myself Languages that I want to study: Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin. Edited by Alexander.Stoma on 23 January 2011 at 6:17pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| jtdotto Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5017 days ago 73 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, German | Message 157 of 204 19 January 2011 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
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21 years old (22 sometime soon).
English - mother tongue. Spanish - studied in high school/university for 5 years, but really didn't get a hold on it til college. Was going smoothly and was decently conversational at one point until I dropped it for... Korean - 2 and a half years now, at university and abroad in Korea for 10 months. Very, very comfortably conversational, somewhat comfortably literate, but still a long ways away from mastery, even from a foreigner's perspective (that whole native thing will take a lot longer...). Thinking about picking up Spanish again - now that I've made deep progress with Korean, Spanish looks so simple... or German? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 4869 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 158 of 204 19 January 2011 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
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19 years old.
Portuguese - I was born in Brazil, so that's my mother tongue. I can write better than most brazilians do (it's a little bit hard to write correctly, everybody writes Portugues, destinatario, instead of Português, destinatário, for exemple). English - I started to learn English at school, and I have a lot of work to do in it. I can read perfectly, but the same doesn't happen to write, talk and listen. Although I can communicate at an intermediate level, it's not enough yet. Japanese - Beginner. I've Started a few days ago. Only learned Hiragana. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| walruz Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4844 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Japanese | Message 159 of 204 22 January 2011 at 11:36pm | IP Logged |
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I'm 22.
Swedish - Native English - I've been playing American computer games since I was 5 or something, and have been reading books in English since I was 7 or 8, never really studied it (studying English in school here starts when you're around 9-10 years old). Passed the CAE exam last year of high school. French - Studied since I was 12 until I was 17; I can understand written French quite well, but I can't produce it. On hold at the moment. Arabic - Started at age 20. Studied Arabic and Japanese simultaneously at the university for one year. I then realized that studying languages one at a time is way more effective, so I'm focusing on Japanese for the moment. Fluency: Non-existent. Extremely basic. Japanese - Started at age 20, studied for a year, had a gap of almost one year, and I'm now studying it as much as possible. Fluency: I know the meaning of about 3000 kanji, can pronounce maybe half of them. I can read manga and Wikipedia articles without having to look up to many words, but my listening comprehension is awful. Right now, I'm trying to get the hang of the whole Japanese thing, then resurrect my French, and from there I'll probably do Arabic and then either Mandarin, Farsi or Dari. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| -Eddz- Diglot Newbie New Zealand Joined 4842 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Icelandic | Message 160 of 204 23 January 2011 at 7:17am | IP Logged |
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I'm 16.
English- Native. Born in England, living in New Zealand, both English speaking countries. Parents speak English 100% of the time, so I do also. French- 3 years of lessons so far. Writing, speaking and listening is intermediate, by my own reckoning, reading is better. Currently cruising through the Harry Potter books easily, as some example as to where I'm at. Afrikaans- Very basic, only been learning about a month. That said, my South African father is fluent, and is helping me with it, and that, coupled with the fact that Afrikaans is a pretty easy language for a Native English speaker means it's coming along pretty easily. Russian- Just starting to teach myself Russian. I have got a fair grasp of Cyrillic, and now need to work on everything else :P Norwegian- Next on the list. I have got myself a book on basic Norwegian, and will start to get into it when my Afrikaans and Russian improves. Edited by -Eddz- on 23 January 2011 at 7:18am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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