your parent's native language, did they ever teach you? Options

[xPartyGrlDx]

did your parents ever teach you their native language? my parents were born in the philippines and they never taught me tagalog(filipino language) even though i know a little. i really wish they did teach me

[x emo screamo x]

did your parents ever teach you their native language? my parents were born in the philippines and they never taught me tagalog(filipino language) even though i know a little. i really wish they did teach me

OH! I know a bad word in Tagolog! hehe

Uhm....My mom is mexican. i'm mexican. but she didn't teach me spanish. lol. Cuz she barely uses it

[muffin dude 292]

yeah they taught me because they dont speak english that well

[pink_tootsie]

well i went to chinese/vietnamese school for about 5 or 6 years so yeah..she didnt have to teach me

[FALLENstar009]

Yes i did learn vietnamese when i was wee young. And then i struggled in school because i had no idea what there were saying....>.< yup but i lost my native tounge....it's really sad to think i lost it after a few years of school.

[pbear]

it was my first language.
after i got into kindergarten, i dropped it for english.
i took chinese school for several years, but dropped it last year- no time.

[sharerol]

Yeah, I grew up speaking Chinese. But then I was sent to an American school and now I barely know any Chinese.

[dreamerOi]

nope i guess you just start to understand it if they keep speaking it

my parents native language is chinese
so's mine

[TheSilenceInDict...]

did your parents ever teach you their native language? my parents were born in the philippines and they never taught me tagalog(filipino language) even though i know a little. i really wish they did teach me

They didn't really teach me Tagalog, but I picked it up.
I can understand the language well, but I don't speak it.
It's been English all the way for me.

[pink_tootsie]

Yeah, I grew up speaking Chinese. But then I was sent to an American school and now I barely know any Chinese.

yea..same here adn it doesnt help when you need to talk to your parents either cause my mom doesnt really speak english..

[*stephinika*]

yeah my parents speak tagalog too but i know only very little because for some reason it never stuck with me...

[BeyondElite]

both school and parents...
Actually, my school, back in the Philippines, taught me Tagalog. But I think my parents taught me, first, Tagalog.

[LiLEthiopian]

My parents speak Amharic..i know the language..but choose not to speak it for personal reasons.

[LiNHy POO]

yehh both my parents teach me a few vietnamese words everyday!

[Winter]

My parents are Chinese. My dad doesn't speak it very well so they never tought me any. It was my granny who tought me Cantonese. I learnt Mandarin from Mandarin dubbed Korean dramas.

[Looow]

I speak Spanish. Both of my parents are mexican. So spanish was my first language

[sheepy]

yeah my parents r canto.. nd i could speak it altho not well.

[jaeman]

My parents are from the Philippines and they've never taught me any Tagalog.
Yet, I can speak it as if I were a fob.
It's just something I picked up naturally.

[sweetdreamsx3]

Yeah, my dad is Viet, and I've always wanted to learn his language, but he never taught me. The only words I know of are the bad ones. :P

[smrkangl]

at home, we only speak Tagalog. i'm glad i know how to speak it! ;]

[slurp]

i guess they do, i mean they dont speak english well so i have no choice other than listenting to them talking in chinese..whatever they may be saying

[PinkTrash]

My mom spoke chinese while my dad spoke greek. . yeah

[Auktane]

im cambodian and both my parents are..so i speak cambodian...i understand it pretty damn good...cambodian is spoken around the house, but i respond in english..but when my grandma speaks it...im lost for words...lol...

[sweetxsimplicity]

My parents both have different native languages, but they both speak Vietnamese often, they never taught me, but I guess I sort of "picked it up" from hearing it so much.

[xox Qt LuVZ xox]

Mmm, no. I wanna learn though. Japanese and Chinese are cool languages.

[Flaunted]

no, i have to get the hang of chinese first. they speak vietnamese.

[silver-rain]

eh, my parents speak chinese. they sent me to chinese school for about a year, before i dropped out... but, i can't really speak chinese, i only understand it when its spoken.

[laur3nw]

I'm chinese and so are my parents. They were born here and they can speak it, but they never taught me..my grandparents were the only ones who spoke chinese to me..thats how I can understand. I can't speak it, I wish I could though. =/

[captivatedheart]

my parents taught me vietnamese.. in fact, i was in ESL because i didnt know how to speak english. but now, i barely speak viet anymore. =/

[dani41790]

yea they did. my parents are frm the philippines and they taught me how to speak tagalog

[NiKECHiQ]

my parent`s native language is filipino and yes they taught me ... i can understand but i cant speak it

[falling silence]

My parents are Chinese, and I grew up in China so...Chinese just stuck to me.
Even when I came to the U.S. my mom forced me to speak Chinese at home. Now I see it's a good thing she did, 'cause it'd be sad if I "forgot" my native language.

[nyCzxfOx]

manderian -_- ;;

i learned it by listening to my parents conversations and slowly learning

my chinese rly sucks.. i have that erm ABC like sound.. blah -_-;;

but now im learning cantonese :D

[acidbreeze]

i am straight up american dawg.
and yes my parents did teach me american.
O_O

no, my mom used to speak in german sometimes

[its_a_moo_cow]

well im korean and i totally suck at korean.. when i was 10 i only knew "bear" "mom" and "dad" but i wanted to learn it so i can read all these funny looking korean comic books lying around so i started to study korean and went to korean school and stuff.. i know SO MUCH MORE i can write and read in korean too! im so proud of myself!

[miszkristinexox]

im the same as you, but i understand tagalog

[I.Luff.Emo.Boys.]

mom never taught me Thai.

[lpmatt618]

My parents taught me English, since I'm American.

[souldreamers]

I'm Cambodian so my native language is Khmer. My parents didn't neccessarily teach me Khmer... it just came naturally cuz DEY NO SPEAKA DE ENGLISH very well. Yea I guess a lot of the older generation kids know their native language...

[jambaJUICE]

Tagalog. they never taught me .. i really wish they did

but, since i was 7, ive picked up words, and now i understand most conversations, but i cant speak well. its very BROKEN, and i fob out

ANONG PANGALAN MO ?!

[WhiteLotus*]

MY parents were born in America. In America, we speak English. ha.

But, I am Irish as well. I know some Gaelic and some French.

[gigiopolis]

Yup. They're both from Hong Kong, and I lived there for two years before immigrating to Canada. I go back to Hong Kong at least once a year, and my parents regularly speak to me in Cantonese. I listen to Canto songs, watch Canto TV shows, listen to Canto radio...go to Chinese school and learn Mandarin, Hanyu Pinyin and Cantonese. I can speak Cantonese as fluently as someone from Hong Kong, but I can also speak English just like someone who was raised here all their life. It's a shame I can't really read or write Chinese as well as I would like to... =\

[DrEaMgUy2K1]

you should ask them how to speak it....they're ur parents im sure they will help u learn from time to time.

For me...my parents native language is Vietnamese...and yes they did teach me it....I think they tought me both vietnamese and english at the same time ... so im fluent in both ~_~

[angel-roh]

yeah they taught me korean language cause i started to forget my own language when i moved to america

[1--GIRL]

Yup.. well they never 'taught' me. I just catch on to what they say so yeah

[pancit_pnay]

hmm...i never waited for my parents to teach me...i bugged them to when i was 4...so i speak, read, write fluent tagalog...annnd dad's teaching me japanese...right now!!

[123321x]

english. (u didn't said it was excluded!)

[mzweirdo]

They didn't really teach me Tagalog, but I picked it up.
I can understand the language well, but I don't speak it.
It's been English all the way for me.

Yea...same here with cambodian.

Sigh..at times I wish my parents did teach me..-___-

[*wind&fire*]

no.....::::goes to a corner and cries::::

[NYgirl4ever116]

Yea my parents came from Ukraine/ used to be part of Russia. And they taught me Russian. I'm really glad that they did

[*incoherent*]

my family is from the same place i was born, but my mom knows spanish and does my spanish homework for me :]

[EXPLO5ION]

My dad is Chinese and my mom is vietnamese. Sadly, they never taught me.

[ANG33ZY]

nah i learned most of the words myself.

[whooooshy]

yes, my parents spoke to me mostly in cantonese when i was young so yea. they also taught me a bit of english before i started school. i was in bilingal (sp?) classes until 4th grade so it kinda stuck, but now i have this accent >.<

[2L0VERLY]

my mom always spoke to me with a mix of tagalog & english & i take tagalog classes @ school so i know how to speak it almost fluently, but my dad barely spoke spanish to me so i dont know that much.

[PiGo]

My father's native language is Krioulu, but he didn't teach me because growing up he forgot a lot because it was considered shameful.

[eternal*destiny]

well...my parents native languages are canto and mando and i spoke better canto wen i was 4 than i do now

took 5 years of mando school

learned to say hi my name is blah blah blah

but i cant believe i quit i wish i kept taking it

so now i kinda speak a....chinglish

half chinese half english cz i cant speak chinese properly

[iced__cappucino]

lessee...my mom is born in cambodia which makes cambodian..but thats not my moms native lang. shes chinese...(canton/mandarin/chiuchow[thats canton! its actually diojiu Oo;]) so i understand a BIT of canton (i uno how..lol) i took mandarin classes for 6 years but still dont understand and i can speak my chiu chow lang. =) my mom and dad taught me to speak chiuchow . well to speak at least.
now my DAD he was born in cambodia too...hes part cambodian but he can speak it to. but her never taught me. he can speak chiu chow but not canton or mand.
hah thats my story. =)

well...my parents native languages are canto and mando and i spoke better canto wen i was 4 than i do now

took 5  years of mando school

learned to say hi my name is blah blah blah

but i cant believe i quit i wish i kept taking it

so now i kinda speak a....chinglish

half chinese half english cz i cant speak chinese properly

lol thats like me. i took mand for so long and i wish i never wuit. so regretful!! i felt like crying after i thought about it

[Im So Vain]

Nope my parents dont even know their own.

[teeners4]

haha i know canto, a bit, its crappy though haha i always mispronounced stuff but my bf finds it cute so haha~~ and i cant say some words at all.

o yea i took like 5 years of manderin, but i like know how to say like....3 phrases (i want to eat) (i dont know/understand) (i want ____) haha yea...

[rainbawwors]

my parents taught me how to speak chinese..and i also went to chinese school for 9 years.. i wanna quit soo much. its so boring. but my parents wont let me.

[shortiiex]

i think they have...not alot though

[baakla]

my parents are from america, but my grandparents are always trying to teach me portuguese.

[kill.t3h.r0cK]

Errr, Thai was my first language, but then I stopped using it when I entered Kindergarten...Now I suck at Thai, but I want to learn more. I can read it more than I can speak it. I don't like Thai school, it's madd boring.

I'd like to learn Lao, my mom's famly can speak it.

[x3Death.By.Knife...]

-> Greek

yeah.. english was my first language.. but as i got older.. i wanted to learn greek seeing as how my dad was from greece and that stuff. So i went into Greek school. We don't speak it much around the house.. just me and my dad.. or when we ever go to greece i use it

Hiya Pam ^^

[`SWTWiNKLE3YES]

well, no. cus i was born in the philippines and stayed there until i was 7-ish so i learned the language pretty good.

[monxcheri]

well, no. cus i was born in the philippines and stayed there until i was 7-ish so i learned the language pretty good.

yeah me too.. `cept i stayed there for about 10 years so yeah..

[boobooxpp]

my parents native language is mando but they also speak some kind of taiwanese that they don't teach because it's used when they don't want me + my siblings to understand.

[OhXiet_ItzDonnA]

my parent's native language is vietnamese. they taught me some but shieeet, i barely speak it now and i dont even know if i said it the right way or anything. but im learining a lil bit from my friends

[slipper]

yah, since i was born in the PI. so actually all the people i knew taught me.

1st lang -Ilocano
2nd - Tagalog
3rd - English

[whomps]

Yes they did. They're from Canton (Guangzhou) and they taught me Cantonese. They know how to speak Mandarin though.. I wish they'd taught me that too.

[xx_Fashionista_x...]

They tried when I was younger... I guess I was too interested in playing with Barbie to care.

[MetalChick77]

Yeah both of my parents speak spanish and it was my first language. Im getting a tad bit rusty in it though :/

[piney]

german. i wish they taught me. its so funny sounding, but i guess if your german american sounds funny too.

[yellowgurl]

My dads cambodian/vietamese..I dont think he knows how to speak the language though or maybe he does. I'm not quite sure. However they do speak fluent cantonese and I was lucky enough to be able to learn it.

[distortedMIND]

My parents taught me Tagalog when I was little. I forgot most of it though when I was in 2nd - 3rd grade. -_-;; I'm trying to learn again now, though.

[annalucky]

Not really, they'd use it around the house alot, so I kinda caught on and taught myself. They didn't like english. lol.

[Teesa]

Yes. My parents are from India and they speak Bengali and a little Hindi. I grew up speaking fluent Bengali, but after I learned English in school, I completely stopped speaking it. But I still use it because my parents speak it at home, so it's nice to speak in Bengali to them.

[PinkTrash]

yes, cantonese - my parents dont know english so its the only means of communication really.

[seriouslynikki]

Um. Yeah. My parents' native language is Tagalog. I know tagalog pretty well without them teaching me, but they do teach me a bit. Im Filipino/Singaporian.

[xoxoxx]

my parents didn't really teach me, they sent me to chink school on saturdays. and they speak it fluently so i can speak it well.

[misoshiru]

of course, it was my first language (cantonese)

[datass]

yeah. it was chinese. now im can speak chinese fluently

[xbby_charmz]

same here my parents are lao and thai and they never taught me anything all i know is hi and that sucks cause i wish i knew more cause i see ppl and they tlk in there language meng...

[snoox]

oh. im from philipines and i speak tagalog and some other flip dialect. but its really cool tat u understand it even though u wernt taught. and i think its cool tat ur interested with the flip language. *two thumbs up

[lanbexx]

yes, mandarin. theyre native plus we go to china every year which really helps. i also go to chinese school, but it kinda doesnt help cause its so boring and we all talk in english to each other.

when people say fluently, does that mean that they really know the complicated words? cause i dont sound foreign but i can speak relatively simple words.

[jue]

i dont know how i lreaned chinese but i know it anyways.

[NatiMarie]

Yeah they did.
Well...I just adapted to the language and slowly developed it myself.
;x
Spanish...is thy language that I knoweth.

[gelionie]

Yup. I know Cantonese since I lived most of my life in Hong Kong.

[*danielle_x3*]

i'm filipino && my parents taught me how to speak tagalog when i was younger. :D . . but they didn't teach my older brother o_o

[yummy_delight]

My mom is from the Philippines and she didn't teach me any Tagalog. I really wish I knew how to speak it though, so I could understand what my grandma's old lady friends are gossipping about me.

[pawprints2570]

yup. my parents insist on me perfecting chinese.. i mean, i was born there, but we speak it in the house all the time.

[sh0rt13]

i was born in the philippines so i basically learned there..

& til now i can still understand and speak tagalog

[azn_r4pf4n]

yeah, they taught me cantonese... well they spoke it to me when i was little and then i knew. i only speak cantonese to my grandma and mom but not my dad for some reason. im going to be learning mandarin soon so imma commit to learning it. lots of old chinese dialects (i.e shanghainese) are dying, so we gotta keep speaking the dialects also/teaching it inside the families or who knows what will happen.

[angelrevelation]

my mom taught me hers... i'm not sure how to spell it. it's like 'toy-san' or something. hardly anyone has heard of it, and practically no one actually speaks it...

"do you speak chinese?"
"yea"
"what kind?"
"toy san"
"what...? "

[5ayuri]

Yeah, they tought me spanish.
But sometimes I forget how to say something, wich isn't good.

[WHOngos144]

my parents chinese and they're from the phillipines, they didnt teach me tagalog, I just picked it up, I can understand it but i cant speak it. and I still speak fukien(chinese dialect).. at home