your parent's native language, did they ever teach you? |
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 Aug 15 2005, 10:10 PM
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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.
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Aug 15 2005, 10:42 PM
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distortion in its craziest. Group: Member Posts: 1,053 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 22,325 |
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.
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Aug 15 2005, 10:49 PM
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Not really, they'd use it around the house alot, so I kinda caught on and taught myself. They didn't like english. lol.
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Aug 16 2005, 01:33 AM
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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.
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Aug 17 2005, 01:35 AM
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yes, cantonese - my parents dont know english so its the only means of communication really.
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Aug 17 2005, 01:51 AM
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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.
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Aug 17 2005, 01:56 AM
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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.
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Aug 17 2005, 05:18 AM
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 yan lin♥ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627 |
of course, it was my first language (cantonese)
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Aug 17 2005, 05:46 AM
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yeah. it was chinese. now im can speak chinese fluently
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Aug 17 2005, 06:25 AM
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@ngel_Lynn Group: Member Posts: 158 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 205,612 |
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...
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Aug 17 2005, 06:29 AM
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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
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Aug 17 2005, 07:35 AM
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 我爱台妹,台妹爱我 Group: Member Posts: 877 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 52,340 |
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. |
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Aug 17 2005, 08:04 AM
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i dont know how i lreaned chinese but i know it anyways.
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Aug 17 2005, 01:04 PM
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 I can rot your brain ;] Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 1,160 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 42,261 |
Yeah they did.
Well...I just adapted to the language and slowly developed it myself. ;x Spanish...is thy language that I knoweth. |
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Aug 17 2005, 06:53 PM
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 say maydayism. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,447 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 26,344 |
Yup. I know Cantonese since I lived most of my life in Hong Kong.
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Aug 17 2005, 06:58 PM
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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
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Aug 17 2005, 07:00 PM
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 Lauren loves YOU. Group: Member Posts: 2,357 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 32,793 |
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.
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Aug 17 2005, 07:15 PM
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 bahhhh Group: Member Posts: 129 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 124,327 |
yup. my parents insist on me perfecting chinese.. i mean, i was born there, but we speak it in the house all the time.
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Aug 17 2005, 08:03 PM
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 0nethr3e Group: Member Posts: 200 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 30,851 |
i was born in the philippines so i basically learned there..
& til now i can still understand and speak tagalog |
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Aug 17 2005, 08:04 PM
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 The Secret Hacker. Group: Member Posts: 1,780 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 18,712 |
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.
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Aug 17 2005, 09:43 PM
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 You can't keep running from what you're trying to find. Group: Official Member Posts: 5,030 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 54,096 |
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...?  "
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Aug 17 2005, 09:43 PM
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 Too slow. Group: Member Posts: 2,730 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 108,320 |
Yeah, they tought me spanish.
But sometimes I forget how to say something, wich isn't good. |
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Aug 17 2005, 10:22 PM
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 Diana =] Group: Member Posts: 1,318 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 174,147 |
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
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