Reply With QuoteBirth, and then living in a bilingual country/city.
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Last edited by Hollis; 07-20-2012 at 01:36 PM.
Birth, and then living in a bilingual country/city.
By 2050, the US will be totally bilingual. Spanish/English.
I speak Spanish as a second language because it is also my mother's second language, I lived in Latin America, and studied the language in college. I speak Japanese, but not fluently, after having lived in Japan for a few years and marrying a Japanese woman.
My Spanish skills have been useful at work, and have helped me to get employment, but not the types of jobs I's ideally like to have.
I learned because I heard it would be easy to pick up chicks.
I learned to better understand German ****.
The goverment said so.
I have to speak 3 foreign languages to complete my master-studies in history. That means additional to english and spanish, ill have to pick another language in the next year too - will probably go with dutch because I can already understand the meaning and its very close to German.
English, I'm almost fluent in that because of it's usefulness in interwebz, popular culture and professional requirements.
I theoretically speak some Swedish due to government. I just limit my use of that language to educational facilities and Sweden. It's mostly just matter of principle that I don't speak it outside of said environments, Finland should have only one language, Finnish. Roughly something like third of my relatives are our former occupiers, if they want keep their language they should move to Sweden.Originally Posted by Macs.
Those of you speaking english as a second language, has posting on english language forums such as this one significantly improved your abilities or is it just another way to practice/nothing special?
Not only posting, but reading, especially reading. Reading helps a lot with the spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and so on.
Living in the country. There is no better way to learn a language. Thats how I got my fluency in Spanish. I was in a pretty long immersion program there.
At the end of 6th grade they handed me an official looking paper instructing me to select spanish or french.
I picked spanish only because the french teacher was a b*tch.
My parents both speak English, so that one was kinda predictable. OTOH, I live in Québec, where 80 percent of the people speak French. So I did a year at Université de Montréal, and again, the result were kinda predictable.
Married a native French speaking woman, she spoke to the kids in French, me in English. They get confused when someone asks them what their mother tongue is. They have no real understanding of the concept.
Women, the only truly good reason to do anything.
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