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| P0nd3r Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5021 days ago 30 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, Persian* Studies: Swedish, Japanese | Message 73 of 100 04 February 2011 at 2:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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Considering that Persian can form 226 million words.
No.. I would never change my native language, I love Persian. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5242 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese | Message 74 of 100 04 February 2011 at 4:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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English is cool, French is cool. Wouldn't change.
Sometimes I wonder though, what things would be like if I grew up spoking more diversified languages. Like if I learned Peul or Hausa from my dad It would be nice, I suppose, but then I wouldn't have a reason to want to learn them! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| BTom Diglot Newbie United States findalanguageteacher Joined 4992 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, English Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili | Message 75 of 100 04 February 2011 at 5:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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I would not give up being a native Hungarian speaker. However, I'd love to be bilingual, speaking English and Hungarian, just like my kids. It is certainly an advantage to be a native speaker of a language that you use most of your life.
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6089 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 76 of 100 04 February 2011 at 11:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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No. English is too useful. I think learning foreign languages makes me appreciate English more, without being satisfied with English alone.
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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5220 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 77 of 100 04 February 2011 at 2:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well my native language is Slovak, but an obscure dialect that is spoken by about 50-60.000 people in Serbia. Mainstream Slovaks from Slovakia don't understand most of it. Therefore it is a bit cool to speak a language that is understood by a very limited number of people. When I went to Slovakia a few years ago, every time me and my friends wanted to talk in private we just switched to our native dialect and the Slovaks just starred at us baffled.
So I think if I had to change my native language I would change it for another obscure language or dialect. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| biagio Newbie Italy Joined 5025 days ago 26 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English | Message 78 of 100 04 February 2011 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Would I change my native language?
Yes, definitely. Italian isn't of much use when you cross the Alps... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 98789 Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 4860 days ago 48 posts - 55 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English | Message 79 of 100 04 February 2011 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
Sounds in Spanish: * Normal / standar five vowels: a-e-i-o-u, no strange sounds because of combinations (i.e. if you see "caer" it sounds "kaer" not "kair" or "kor" or "kaar" ... English: courage: "kuradg" sound: "saund" ... "ou" sounds different deppending of ocation... thing never happen in Spanish. * traditional letters who are in every language (well, at least in most of them) * Ñ ... who exist in portuguese nh (like "Ronaldinho"), french "gn" (like "Avignon) and more other languages (including English.. like "gnome") * r (when it sounds soft) sound who also exist in a lot of languages ... * ll ... traditionally it sounds approximately Italian gli (cagliari - "callari") ... but in most of the countries (at least in the "neutral Spanish" ones -Mexico and Colombia-) it sounds often like "Y" ... a sound who exist in all the languages (at least those I've heard about) * Ch ("tsh") who also exist in a lot of languages ... for example the word "chocolate" ... * Consonant + R / L (combination)... exist in a lot of languages and is very easy to learn ... (BRown, GRoss, aTLantic, etc) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5402 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 80 of 100 04 February 2011 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd easily change mine to either Spanish, Russian, or German and never regret it :D
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