nope, i was born in germany, but my mum's filipino and i spent a lot of time there as well (never lived there for more than 6 weeks though)

i used to live in the philippines when i was 9-11, because of my mom's job :smug:

 

u actually dont really need to know tagalo cause all the ppl there speak english anyway... i think it might be even more useful to know spanish there than tagalo

yeah, but my whole family speaks tagalog O.o

... of course, they all know english, but i rather speak tagalog with them!

yea, it's like my mom's side of the family they all speak serbian (like yugoslavian where serbia is)

and it's so annoying when they speak it at the table, or they have jokes in yugoslavian and i dont get them

 

i only know a few words here and there

 

i know that oh oh means yes in tagalog

yeah, i know words like "no", "shit" and "water"..

i do understand them, but i am not able to speak it...

what was your mum actually doing there?

working at the israeli embassy

 

we lived in manila, in makati i remember. And i studied in the international school there- ISM

I have a knack for picking up codes and alphabets, but languages give me trouble. I'm really good at understanding grammar, but to actually learn words is torture- they just don't stick.

 

Which is a bit odd, because I've been told I have an unnaturally large english vocabulary and a knack for picking up dialects. For instance, I drive certain other english students crazy because I can read and understand Shakespeare without having to think about it. The language just sounds normal to me.

 

 

hah! that was almost frustrating to read because it's me

 

In english class I would sit there and actually LAUGH OUT LOUD at some of the old english jokes we read in Shakespeares pieces. It was embarrassing after I finished having the giggle about it in english class because everyone was all like:

 

"Whaaaat the fuck are you laughing about, Crystal?!"

 

:blush:

 

But yeah, English IS my strongest language...surprising to me and others because Spanish is my first language.

 

 

I was like 5 when my parents just stuck me in an all english school with no bilungual classes. So I always think it was the dire need to learn the language quick that just bumped away my first language. Now I can speak, read, write english better than most kids whose first language WAS english. Cool.

Another thing.

 

Don't ever ever put your kids in ESL (English as a Second Language) EVER. (for those of you whose location and surroundings it applies) And if you are in one of those classes or similar to it....get the heck out of there. Not only will you NOT learn the language you need to learn...but you will never want to leave ESL classes (even in later college they offer it). It is such a back track of a class to be in!

 

The kids there get used to not having to actually learn the other language..and teachers there are such a slack on students! Besides having it easy, the kids make friends there and they all decide to stay together in ESL for the "good" company that they just never leave ESL... I saw it happen.

 

While it was a giant frustration having to be pushed into all english... I would do it again and I would push my kids to it as well. It is by far, the best way to learn a language. It creates, like I said, a dire need to learn it. So you have to basically, and the immersion helps you pick it up faster.

I study English and French, but French more harder than English... And my mother language is very different from other language so its a bit hard to study languages...But i like it

 

But yeah, English IS my strongest language...surprising to me and others because Spanish is my first language.

 

 

I was like 5 when my parents just stuck me in an all english school with no bilungual classes. So I always think it was the dire need to learn the language quick that just bumped away my first language. Now I can speak, read, write english better than most kids whose first language WAS english. Cool.

 

muahaha same here! when they asked my parents to put me in ESL my dad was like HELL NO and he checked the "english as first language" box. now i kick major ass in english :P

hahah AWESOME! I think I want to high five your parents :uhoh:

 

 

a good choice indeed :laugh1:

lol, yeah. i started reading and writing before most kids too, but i never went to pre-k. my sister just taught me whatever the hell she was learning in the 5th grade :laugh3: i feel like telling all those snooty rich kids to suck it at school because...frankly, i'm a hell of a lot smarter than them. :P

uh...I don't know if I have a knack for learning languages or not because I'm not good a studying since I'm so terribly lazy in school :laugh2: but I got an A in english last semester and mum and dad agrees that I'm good at languages.

I wish I knew more languages than just swedish and english but to learn them I have to start study :wacko:

 

Together my parents know german, english, spanish, french and a little bit of italian so it would have been awsome if they could have spoken those languages with me when I was little haha :P then maybe I would have been able to speak german or french now...but no no, it was swedish swedish the whole time

lol' date=' yeah. i started reading and writing before most kids too, but i never went to pre-k. my sister just taught me whatever the hell she was learning in the 5th grade :laugh3: i feel like telling all those snooty rich kids to suck it at school because...frankly, i'm a hell of a lot smarter than them. :P[/quote']

 

 

whoa there...

 

me too! :tongue:

 

Those lame american kids! :laugh1:

 

 

I dunno how it happened. But some of those kids whose language was english from the beginning just ...DON'T know the small differences either!

 

Like...I was at the pet fair the other day while on my work break.. And these kids with their parents were looking at mice. And whoa did I have to totally run out of the store to keep from laughing in their faces!!! Seriously. The dad was all dressed up and looked like he just came from the office. (he was wearing a name tag that was to like, this insurance company in my town) and he was saying: "Yeah kids, these little guys are called: 'Mices'...can you guys say that?" totally directed to his kids. :laugh4: its NOT mices!!!!! for fucks sake! OMG ...okay calm down.

 

Plural of a mouse= Mice

Singular of Mice = Mouse.

 

Simple as that!

 

omg people...I have known that since like first grade. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

that guy was a total dumbass and he was like pushing 50 years of age. DUMBAAAASSSS

 

 

okay. done. (still laughing though)

lol, aw poor old dude who doesn't know english grammar. one of my ultimate pet peeves is one when people misspell/use poor grammar. drives me nuts.

 

mices..geeses...hahahahahahaha

hahah

 

my sister is forever saying: me and my sister ..instead of my sister and I ggggggggrrr totally flips me up.

 

O well..to all their own mices :rolleyes:

:P:D

well, languages at school are my strongest subjects.

haha... i have an A in every language (haha... *show off*)..

but it's weird that i only have a B in german ... *cough*

gotta admit that i am pretty bad at french and spanish,but it is enough to rule my class. HEHEHE

same here with arabic

 

i suck at it, when we had an oral exam i spoke hebrew most of the time and kept saying (in hebrew) "what? I dont understand!"

 

and i still got a 90...

go figure

 

*but i think it was the lowest grade in class. Just goes to show that the expectations from the ministry of education here are low. I would change the whole system if i were there

^lol good job! i remeber with my french oral exams i would keep using the same sentence structure and it got really boring REALLY quick lol..i definetely didn't get a 90! :P

yeah, that's the point.

people always use the same structures because they know that they're right... :)

hah! that was almost frustrating to read because it's me

 

In english class I would sit there and actually LAUGH OUT LOUD at some of the old english jokes we read in Shakespeares pieces. It was embarrassing after I finished having the giggle about it in english class because everyone was all like:

 

"Whaaaat the fuck are you laughing about, Crystal?!"

 

:blush:

 

But yeah, English IS my strongest language...surprising to me and others because Spanish is my first language.

 

 

I was like 5 when my parents just stuck me in an all english school with no bilungual classes. So I always think it was the dire need to learn the language quick that just bumped away my first language. Now I can speak, read, write english better than most kids whose first language WAS english. Cool.

 

That's really neat. Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind my asking, what language do you think in and dream in and stuff? Is it still Spanish, or has English taken over completly?

 

Yeah, I have nine years of fruitless french classes to prove that immersion is the way to go. I wish I had tried it but it was too worried about it affecting my other classes.

 

That approach does have it's downside though, with less common languages. Up in Cape Breton a couple of generations ago, from what I understand, people just stopped speaking Gaelic to their kids because they were worried about the accents and stigma and their kids ability to lean English and all that stuff. Now what's left of the last generation to speak it as a first language is in nursing homes, and people are worried about a whole culture just dying out with the language.

That's really neat. Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind my asking, what language do you think in and dream in and stuff? Is it still Spanish, or has English taken over completly?

 

Yeah, I have nine years of fruitless french classes to prove that immersion is the way to go. I wish I had tried it but it was too worried about it affecting my other classes.

 

That approach does have it's downside though, with less common languages. Up in Cape Breton a couple of generations ago, from what I understand, people just stopped speaking Gaelic to their kids because they were worried about the accents and stigma and their kids ability to lean English and all that stuff. Now what's left of the last generation to speak it as a first language is in nursing homes, and people are worried about a whole culture just dying out with the language.

 

 

Who would I mind? :tongue:

 

Many people have asked this. And truly.... for me.. it varies.

 

If I am speaking in english..the words take shape as things in my mind..objects, if you will. If I am speaking Spanish, then I think mostly Spanish. But from time to time it flashes because I have to translate for someone or that ONE word or idiom you can never translate.

 

As for the dreams. Rarely do I remember one enough to know what language it's in. If I had to guess/remember... I woulds say..well yeah. English because it is my dominate language.

 

In anycase.

 

When I was taking French....my mind totally blew up.

I would wake up for school speaking Spanish to my family. Get to school and switch to English. (thoughts the same) and THEN switch it up to French when that class was in session. (and to learn a language you must think in that language with as much vocabulary and structure you can remember. So then back to English and then Spanish at home.

 

It was pretty nuts. And then having to write those languages. I took up that whole " add an 'e' " to like every work in any language....because of French.

 

wow. that's enough.

 

Alot of languages are lost because of those said stigmas (like Gaelic..you mentioned). It's like everyone thinks now (and society has basically made it so) that English is the language to know. Even if it means forgetting your own. A shame indeed.

i speak Slovak,Czech,Hungarian,German and a bit English

oh German ey? that's hot :wink3: