Is English your second language?, if so, what was your first? |
Is English your second language?, if so, what was your first? |
Mar 14 2004, 05:33 PM
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![]() rookie ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 723 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,291 |
I started learning English when I was about 3, so it doesn't really feel like a second language to me... but Japanese was definitely my first language.
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Mar 14 2004, 05:37 PM
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Nope, German is me second, English me first.
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Mar 14 2004, 05:38 PM
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![]() !shobe! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 664 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 5,912 |
i first learned to speak chinese, then tagalog, then english..
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Mar 14 2004, 05:49 PM
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Newbie ![]() Group: Member Posts: 2 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,190 |
hehe...ma first waz albanian...then greek...so makes english ma 3rd...
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Mar 14 2004, 06:39 PM
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![]() ..Michelle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,002 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,282 |
nope. english = first.. & tagalog = second
oh, and I guess spanish = third. still learning it |
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Mar 14 2004, 07:36 PM
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![]() hi. call me linda. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Official Member Posts: 8,187 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,475 |
english is my first- i suppose chinese would be my second and spanish my third, since i;m still learning them
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Mar 14 2004, 08:09 PM
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![]() Feeel X ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 2,814 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,498 |
QUOTE(tkproduce @ Mar 14 2004, 5:33 PM) I started learning English when I was about 3, so it doesn't really feel like a second language to me... but Japanese was definitely my first language. oops, i voted for second, but i meant third....OOPS chiense, french, then english |
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Mar 14 2004, 08:17 PM
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I Ponder. What is _____ doing at the moment?? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 258 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 453 |
i'm not sure o.O i learned both english and korean at the same time.....
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Mar 14 2004, 08:28 PM
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![]() He ate it, I swear! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 659 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,075 |
Yes, I knew Vietnamese first...then English.
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Mar 14 2004, 08:29 PM
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tagalog, english, spanish
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Mar 14 2004, 08:31 PM
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i'm susan ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Official Member Posts: 13,875 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,029 |
korean, english, japanese, and vietnamese....
fluently +korean +english still learning +japanese +vietnamese |
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Mar 14 2004, 08:36 PM
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![]() whoosh ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 37 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,526 |
I learned english when I was 3... yus, I moved to America when I was 3 =]
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Mar 14 2004, 08:44 PM
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![]() pixel hybrid ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 6,410 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,081 |
I learned Filipino (er.. Bisaya) first then Tagalog then English.. er I think English then Tagalog.. er, I just confused myself!
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| *krnxswat* |
Mar 14 2004, 09:57 PM
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My first was Korean.
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Mar 14 2004, 10:01 PM
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my first was sign language
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Mar 14 2004, 10:12 PM
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I'm not sure...I was raised in china town, in NYC, speaking cantonese...so...uh
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Mar 14 2004, 10:21 PM
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specail jello ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 236 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,143 |
nope, its my 1st!
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Mar 15 2004, 12:30 PM
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cb=bullshit. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,783 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,793 |
my first was spanish... and 2nd is english... but I was born in the States.
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Mar 15 2004, 02:49 PM
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yeah, 1st is tagalog
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Mar 15 2004, 04:15 PM
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![]() rookie ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 723 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,291 |
wow... more English 2nd Language ppl than expected... I wonder if the trend is the same for all Xanga users, or is it just a Createblog.com thing?
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Mar 15 2004, 05:24 PM
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english is my second laguage....
Tagalog is my first language. =) |
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Mar 15 2004, 10:14 PM
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I spoke Baby Language...
then...Vietnamese... then...English then...Spanish (I learned how to cuss in Japanese/Korean/Russian/Chinese/Cantonese...when I was in middle/high school...) |
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Mar 15 2004, 10:25 PM
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Umm, technically, I learned Korean first, but that was when I was a baby, and I've forgotten it all since then.... I speak English only in my house, except once in a blue moon when I attempt Korean.
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Mar 16 2004, 02:50 AM
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QUOTE(LaZazn @ Mar 16 2004, 3:14 AM) (I learned how to cuss in Japanese/Korean/Russian/Chinese/Cantonese...when I was in middle/high school...) how do you cuss in Japanese? |
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Mar 16 2004, 04:01 PM
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![]() Mz Nina Nikole ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,343 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,273 |
english is my second langauge i started kindergarten not knowin english! now i cant even speak my own native language! im soo bad.
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Mar 16 2004, 04:07 PM
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i think english was my first. then i learned visaya when i was 2. then i forgot that and now i speak english
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Mar 16 2004, 07:16 PM
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![]() LuShuZxLaNa ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 606 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,854 |
english was my 3rd language. i learned french first, then viet, then english. LOL
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Mar 18 2004, 08:05 PM
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![]() Mrs. Ben Kweller ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 20 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,076 |
japanese was my first language n then in lyke.. kindergarten i had to learn english so now they're both my first languages
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Mar 18 2004, 08:08 PM
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I learned english 5th grade.
And I don't have an accent anymore w00t! - Chinkieeyedpnoi |
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Mar 18 2004, 08:57 PM
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![]() Darlin dont u know? The water is poisoned ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 554 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,668 |
yeah im japanese, and when i came down here to hawaii i only knew couple words. But with some help i learned some pretty good eng. And im starting to loose my japanese cuz i hardly use it but im still pretty fluent compared to most of my jp friends
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Mar 18 2004, 09:01 PM
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you rock my undies x] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 182 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 269 |
Yup. I speak Korean. Then in 6th grade I learned.. ESPANOL!!! [sorry i derno how to put the squigly line on the top of the N. xP
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Mar 18 2004, 09:23 PM
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Um, English was the 2nd language I learned, but of course it's my primarily language. I can barely even hold up a convo in Spanish now
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Mar 19 2004, 01:01 AM
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i learned tagalog first then english now i'm learning how to speak spanish!!
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Mar 19 2004, 01:03 AM
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![]() Snu-Snu ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 177 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 5,955 |
first language was english...then tagalog...forgot tagalog though and now im learnin it again..but when people speak tagalog to me i reply in english...so its like Tagalog is my 2nd and 3rd language...so its like this
1st: English 2nd: Tagalog...then forgot 3rd: Tagalog...again... |
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Mar 19 2004, 02:18 AM
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Uhm I started learning both english and spanish at da same time.
But my spanish is kinda messed up is some wayz. |
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Apr 2 2004, 12:22 AM
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![]() im to confuzed ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 456 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,150 |
cantonese was mi first then i started speaking english not long after that
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Apr 2 2004, 12:25 AM
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my first language that i learned was cantonese. then english :D =]
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Apr 2 2004, 04:49 AM
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My first language was English. Coz my dad couldn't speak Chinese my parents were very Americanized even though we live in Malaysia.
Then Cantonese, Malay and Mandarin. Now I'm currently learning Japanese and Korean. And now I regret not learning Tagalog when I was working at the Phillipino embassy here... :S |
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Apr 2 2004, 11:33 AM
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my first language was Punjabi... then english came :D
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Apr 2 2004, 08:04 PM
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english is my second language, chinese would be my first... but i'm horrible with chinese... french would be the third language...
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Apr 3 2004, 04:53 PM
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Newbie ![]() Group: Member Posts: 7 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,910 |
well my first language is english, but i speak spanish and... (here comes my nerdy secret) and a fake language...... elvish...
Lle quena i'lambe tel' Eldalie? Uuner uma, n'dela no'ta. ya ok im a nerd.. |
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Apr 3 2004, 07:35 PM
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![]() Hi! I'm Dani :) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 5,637 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,369 |
i first learned how to speak tagalog but wen i started learnin english i started forgetin tagalog since pplz in america speak mostly english.
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Apr 8 2004, 06:19 PM
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Mine was spanish, then I learned English (well, I don't remember anymore)...then sign language in both english and spanish
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Apr 8 2004, 10:40 PM
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Chinese was my first and english is my second.
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Apr 8 2004, 10:41 PM
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i'm susan ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Official Member Posts: 13,875 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,029 |
chinese writing is sooooooooooooooooo freaking hard!!! ackkk i cant learn how to write it...so sad... lols i wana learn chinese so bad...snifff
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Apr 8 2004, 10:52 PM
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lol don't feel bad, i suck at writing too. it's waaay too hard. that's why i'm stuck in chinese school.
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Apr 8 2004, 10:57 PM
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Apr 8 2004, 11:07 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Official Member Posts: 4,750 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 10,581 |
I learned English when I was about 6 and learned more English in Kindergarten. So yes, English is my second language. My first language was the language of the Philippines, Tagalog. Surprisingly, I still speak Tagalog fluently...
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Apr 9 2004, 12:55 PM
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![]() PHIL ½ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 2,663 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 6,982 |
tagalog first then english
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Apr 9 2004, 01:25 PM
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I learned to speak korean first but I also learned english when I was like 3 so and I went to american schools so basically even though english is my second language, I'm more comfortable (or fluent, whateer way you want to put it) in english. I am also good at korean but it's not as easy because I only speak it at home and well, basicly at home and sometimes with friends. English, on the other, I speak at the time at school so...yea..I guess I'm more fluent in english.
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Apr 9 2004, 03:32 PM
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![]() unify and defeat... divide and crumble ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 2,759 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 6,379 |
Canto wuz ma first language, but i learned english b4 i even went 2 skool,. and I wuz born in Canada, so English is reeli easy fo me.
now i speak english, canto, manderin, and a lil Malay |
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Apr 9 2004, 03:34 PM
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![]() teach me korean... i'm serious ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 918 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,427 |
mardarin, english, french...
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Apr 9 2004, 04:01 PM
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![]() t a c o s ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,187 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 9,122 |
i took two years of gangsta before i started english.
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Apr 9 2004, 04:05 PM
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english is my first..arabic is my second..im i the only arab american on create blog???
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May 8 2004, 04:06 PM
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ÖÐÎÄÈí¼þ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 2,072 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 10,655 |
My first was Chinese, then Singlish (singaporean English, LMAO) and then English.
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May 8 2004, 04:18 PM
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![]() technicolor girl ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,075 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,104 |
korean & english!
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May 8 2004, 07:36 PM
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![]() Quand j'étais jeune... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
Vietnamese > English > French
Hardly understand Japanese and Spanish except for a few words and phrases. |
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May 8 2004, 07:37 PM
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nope, english is my first
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May 8 2004, 10:31 PM
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![]() durian ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,124 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,860 |
I put yes becuaes I learned english a little before vietnamese.. maybe that's why I forgot alot of my vietnamese.. erg.. I feel like a disgrace T_T
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May 8 2004, 11:15 PM
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[^^^] yeah same with me ... viet is my first lanuage but i forgot a lot of it xD
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May 9 2004, 10:17 AM
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![]() I <3 Kirby ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 652 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 14,421 |
first language: Cantonese
second language: English third language: Spanish |
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May 9 2004, 12:00 PM
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I learned to speak Chinese when I was a toddler.
Now, English is my "dominant" language. I suck at Chinese now. |
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May 9 2004, 12:14 PM
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![]() WUT THA DUCK? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 3,950 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 14,138 |
yeppers! english is my second language! when i was younger all i could speak is vietnamese... so in kindergarden i had to learn english... it was really hard!
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May 9 2004, 01:39 PM
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yea, it my 2nd language. chinese my first.
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May 9 2004, 02:26 PM
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*blink blink* ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 175 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 15,585 |
Yep. Had to take ESL in 1st grade...
Anyway...I speak Canto.. like..first language. |
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May 9 2004, 02:40 PM
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Italian's my first language. Its the only way I could communicate with my grandparents. Now though, I'm not all that great at it.
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May 9 2004, 05:40 PM
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nope english is my first... im struggling with korean =[
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May 9 2004, 05:45 PM
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QUOTE(lilangelgurlpnai @ Mar 14 2004, 6:44 PM) I learned Filipino (er.. Bisaya) first then Tagalog then English.. er I think English then Tagalog.. er, I just confused myself! I know this is random, but what's the difference between Bisaya and Tagalog? Because I thought Tagalog was Filipino. So what's Bisaya? Is it also Filipino? Anyway, English is my first, but I kind of wish my parents had taught me another language when I was a kid... That would be hot. As for now, I'm stuck speaking English and attempting to speak Spanish. (Even though it's my third year, the Mexican workers still laugh when I try talking to them... Dang it! |
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May 9 2004, 08:40 PM
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Yes, because in Maryland i am an ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) student... Advance student.
Hehe |
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May 9 2004, 08:44 PM
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english is ma 4th laugauge
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May 9 2004, 09:26 PM
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english is my first language and tagalog is my second. i`m not that fluent [sp?] but i do understand it more than i can speak it
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May 9 2004, 11:14 PM
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I learned Vietnamese first, and then English when I got to kindergarten.
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May 10 2004, 12:04 AM
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i first learned chinese and then started to learn english when i was around 3
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May 10 2004, 01:43 AM
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English is my third language.
Mandarin is my second lanuage. Cantonese is my first lanuage and I'm proud of a HKnian. |
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May 10 2004, 08:51 AM
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1.Polish
2.English 3.German 4.Russian 5.Latin |
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May 10 2004, 09:24 AM
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Tagalog was my first language ... then English was my second .... I think I learned both languages at the same time though ....
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May 16 2004, 02:54 AM
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![]() Just sit and listen... ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 78 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,339 |
I grew up with parents who always spoke spanish, but then i went to school and spoke english, and now i'm in bolivia, improving my spanish, so i guess i'm equally fluent in both, and i don't consider any of them my "second" language
Though right now i'm learning Japanese (which i love!!) |
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May 16 2004, 08:59 AM
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I only speak english.. im not that special =(
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May 16 2004, 03:51 PM
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QUOTE(mznina @ Mar 16 2004, 3:01 PM) english is my second langauge i started kindergarten not knowin english! now i cant even speak my own native language! im soo bad. im the same. i first learned spanish and i knew it so well. i was good.i spoke it fluently of cousre. lol. i learned english in kindergarden my teacher only spoke english and now, ahh i am "ashamed" i speak spanglish. i mix both of them. i forgot alot of my spanish and i dotn know allot of englich. wellyeah but ia int the best. you can tell if you hear me speak. |
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May 16 2004, 04:33 PM
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![]() Fizzle Ma Nizzle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,019 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 11,978 |
english is my third language.
i can speack in : Urdu hindi fijian english |
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May 16 2004, 06:13 PM
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My first language was mandarin and my second was taiwanese (not sure of the order), and my third was english, now I can still speak mandarin fluently, but not taiwanese
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May 16 2004, 06:17 PM
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![]() I <3 Kirby ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 652 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 14,421 |
my first language was cantonese...then afterwards, i started to learn english when i went to elementary school...
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May 16 2004, 08:58 PM
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yes. im korean.
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May 17 2004, 04:50 PM
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te quiero ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Banned Posts: 2,586 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 14,678 |
i started out speaking mandarin/chinese. i didn't learn english until i was 4, and now... i can barely speak a word of mandarin
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May 17 2004, 05:25 PM
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,795 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,421 |
QUOTE i started out speaking mandarin/chinese. i didn't learn english until i was 4, and now... i can barely speak a word of mandarin That seems to happen a lot, ppl moving here then getting Americanized, lol That'd probably have happened to me too, but my parents decided to torture me and force me to go to Chinese school every week >.> |
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May 17 2004, 05:27 PM
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Vietnamese was my first language and my second is English.
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May 17 2004, 06:43 PM
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![]() Chibi Dreamer ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 55 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,194 |
Chinese First, then English, now learning Japanese and Latin at the same time. Gonna take up Greek next year...^.^
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May 19 2004, 09:27 PM
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english is my first...then german...then gujarati..then hindi...working on spanish, latin, n french....b4 end of HS i wanna know hebrew, arabic, n korean...more if i can
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May 20 2004, 12:12 AM
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![]() that girl is poison. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 283 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,511 |
i can't really distinguish which ones i learned first, because i learned them all consecutively becuase my parents talk in all three [english,hindi,telegu] ... but i think my first word was in english so i could that as my first language.
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Jun 18 2004, 08:41 PM
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yep my first was Macedonian.... u prolly never heard about it
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Jun 18 2004, 09:12 PM
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my first language was korean; took me a while to learn english...not so good until fourth grade, and that would be since...kindergarten?
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Jun 18 2004, 09:33 PM
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no. i learned chinese after
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Jun 18 2004, 09:34 PM
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QUOTE(photoboothromance @ May 10 2004, 6:45 AM) I know this is random, but what's the difference between Bisaya and Tagalog? Because I thought Tagalog was Filipino. So what's Bisaya? Is it also Filipino? Anyway, English is my first, but I kind of wish my parents had taught me another language when I was a kid... That would be hot. As for now, I'm stuck speaking English and attempting to speak Spanish. (Even though it's my third year, the Mexican workers still laugh when I try talking to them... Dang it! Tagalog is Filipino.. Bisaya is a dialect.. it is a language spoken in a local area.. my first language is filipino and my 2nd language is english.. hmmm.. i think i learned it at the same time coz we speak Taglish at home when i was still young.. until now... ooohh.. i understand Pangasinense too.. (a philippine dialect) |
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Jun 18 2004, 09:43 PM
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me.. chinese was my first..i started off learning english eva since im 9. but now i m also working on spanish
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Jun 18 2004, 09:53 PM
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my first languageis spanish
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Jun 18 2004, 09:55 PM
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my first language was chinese, then english, and now i'm learning spanish.
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Jun 18 2004, 11:06 PM
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indonesian then english and now spanish
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Jun 18 2004, 11:13 PM
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Chinese was my first language, and English was my second, and I didn't know a word of it when I came to U.S.. now I can't really write it or read it that well
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Jun 19 2004, 02:26 PM
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I'm only a member hehe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 188 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,875 |
spanish is my third!
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Jun 19 2004, 03:18 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,443 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 18,050 |
yes i spoke vietnamies till i learned english i spoke english at such a young age it doesnt even seem like it was my second language
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