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your parent's native language, did they ever teach you?
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post Oct 15 2004, 08:29 PM
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Mmm, no. I wanna learn though. Japanese and Chinese are cool languages.
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 08:32 PM
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no, i have to get the hang of chinese first. they speak vietnamese.
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 08:45 PM
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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.
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 09:00 PM
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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. =/
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 09:09 PM
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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. =/
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 09:10 PM
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yea they did. my parents are frm the philippines and they taught me how to speak tagalog
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 09:12 PM
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my parent`s native language is filipino and yes they taught me ... i can understand but i cant speak it
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 09:21 PM
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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.
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 09:25 PM
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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
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 09:38 PM
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i am straight up american dawg.
and yes my parents did teach me american.
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no, my mom used to speak in german sometimes
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 09:48 PM
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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! biggrin.gif
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 10:21 PM
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im the same as you, but i understand tagalog
 
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post Oct 15 2004, 10:27 PM
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mom never taught me Thai. sad.gif
 
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post Oct 16 2004, 01:36 AM
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My parents taught me English, since I'm American.

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post Oct 16 2004, 01:42 AM
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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... huh.gif
 
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post Oct 16 2004, 01:45 AM
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Tagalog. they never taught me sad.gif .. i really wish they did cry.gif

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 stubborn.gif

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post Oct 16 2004, 01:48 AM
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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.
 
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post Oct 16 2004, 02:25 AM
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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... =\
 
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post Oct 16 2004, 09:31 AM
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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 ~_~
 
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post Oct 16 2004, 11:25 PM
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yeah they taught me korean language cause i started to forget my own language when i moved to america
 
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post Oct 17 2004, 01:37 AM
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Yup.. well they never 'taught' me. I just catch on to what they say so yeah _smile.gif
 
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post Oct 17 2004, 01:45 AM
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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!!
 
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post Oct 17 2004, 02:01 AM
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english. (u didn't said it was excluded!) whistling.gif
 
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post Oct 17 2004, 02:04 AM
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QUOTE(MasteRxKiD @ Oct 15 2004, 4:22 PM)
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..-___-
 
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