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aliveinHim (post: 1485708) wrote:My native langauge is English but everyone thinks it's Spanish because I'm hispanic. I've had plenty of Mexican guys ask me if I spoke Spanish and I always tell them no. Just because I have dark hair and look Mexicana doesn't mean I speak Spanish. I'm learning Japanese though.
That is great! Can you at least read an understand as fluent as speaking Spanish?Atria35 (post: 1485749) wrote:People were usually surprised when they discovered that I spoke decently fluent Spanish. I'm born and bred white American, but I've always loved other languages and pick them up rather quickly. But it's been two years since I've had any practice, and without it, I've forgotten so much!
evamom (post: 1485779) wrote:That is great! Can you at least read an understand as fluent as speaking Spanish?
Destroyer2000 (post: 1485710) wrote:I sometimes belive that we think in ideas, moreso than a language. Otherwise, how would we relate two languages together in meaning? We know what an object is, intuitively, and can find a basic connection in its idea between English or whatever language we might speak.
GeneD (post: 1485650) wrote:English is my second language, but I am 100% fluent in it. The language I use, whether speaking or thinking, generally depends on who I am/have been speaking to. I read and write almost exclusively in English though.
armeckthefirst (post: 1485658) wrote:My native language is 1337, however i usually speak english, th0u9h 133t d0e5 sli|* 0u7 n0w and th3n l4wlz
junomoule (post: 1485983) wrote:Eeh. Eeeeh... Awkward subject. English is sort of a second language for me. I was born hard of hearing, see?
Hard to say where one language begins and the other ends, but they are related to one another. No one came before the other, but English is my primary language. American Sign Language [abbreviated ASL] is my secondary language.
As soon as my mom learned I had hearing that could be salvaged it was all emphasis on spoken English! Adapted to English because it's much more practical to use, but picking up on things like syntax and the fine art of pronunciation was a bear growing up. Still mispronounce lots of words. I do much better with written and visual language.
I don't actually think in language so much as I think in pictures, which makes a lot of what comes out of my mouth disjointed and silly. My sign language is actually somewhat out of practice these days, but I regularly think, count, and "babble" in it [mostly finger spelling]. Got to take some formal courses in ASL for high school to meet the foreign language requirement, helped me remember lots- toss me back into the language and I pick up on it in no time!
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