An American man awakes and only speaks Swedish... (47)
DidiwopPattaya City, Central Thailand Thailand19 PostsI remember my ex wife going to the Bank and telling the Manager exactly the same story. We still lost the house.
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rizlared: Untrue, a child learns via repetition, no fetus repeats sound in a womb, and no infant can distinguish sounds between languages, as a young child I heard both English and Swahili, it was only when I came to be educated in the UK, that I found I was mixing the two languages when speaking, I had no idea some words were in fact Swahili not English.
I agree when I was much older and lived in Germany I spoke German (hochdeutsch the proper german one learns in school) but I heard a lot of dialect that has mixed german danish and english because I lived up in the north. After returnung to the states I mixed english and german all the time.
I was also school for several years in french, moslty spoken conversational lessons, when I speak either french or german if I forget a word or phrase I'll switch languages one to the other...often in thought before anything is uttered. amazing how the mind works!
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felixis99: I agree when I was much older and lived in Germany I spoke German (hochdeutsch the proper german one learns in school) but I heard a lot of dialect that has mixed german danish and english because I lived up in the north. After returnung to the states I mixed english and german all the time.
I was also school for several years in french, moslty spoken conversational lessons, when I speak either french or german if I forget a word or phrase I'll switch languages one to the other...often in thought before anything is uttered. amazing how the mind works!
I was also school for several years in french, moslty spoken conversational lessons, when I speak either french or german if I forget a word or phrase I'll switch languages one to the other...often in thought before anything is uttered. amazing how the mind works!
Sometimes, some people might think that people are pretentious when switching languages, but it is true sometimes a word or a phrase-sentence will come up faster in a foreign language rather than in the mother tongue.
With my daughter we switch from Spanish to Italian to English and some times she would also talk to me in French and some German but I do not speak French or German.
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lifeisadream: Sometimes, some people might think that people are pretentious when switching languages, but it is true sometimes a word or a phrase-sentence will come up faster in a foreign language rather than in the mother tongue.
With my daughter we switch from Spanish to Italian to English and some times she would also talk to me in French and some German but I do not speak French or German.
With my daughter we switch from Spanish to Italian to English and some times she would also talk to me in French and some German but I do not speak French or German.
right my french is not that good so if I try to even speak a small amount I usually end up speaking some German. I didn't for it as pretentious but because sometimes a word or two will slip out in another language. That only happens rarely when I speak English. Just if I try to speak french or german.
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felixis99: right my french is not that good so if I try to even speak a small amount I usually end up speaking some German. I didn't for it as pretentious but because sometimes a word or two will slip out in another language. That only happens rarely when I speak English. Just if I try to speak french or german.
My daughter first language is English so when she was (is) going to sleep her words were and are:
nite nite
abcWOMAN: Children are fast learners!
It’s a gift knowing several languages, especially Spanish in USA.
I somehow regret I didn’t study more languages when I was younger.
It’s a gift knowing several languages, especially Spanish in USA.
I somehow regret I didn’t study more languages when I was younger.
It is never late to learn ABC-woman!
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lifeisadream: ... It is never late to learn ABC-woman!
I know, but I don't feel very motivated right now!
If I decide to study a new language, I think it'll be Spanish.
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He jumped up, ran in the kitchen and started shouting Vunday schmunday oooo bork bork bork! Then he was attacked by a seemingly dead chicken and a gob of spaghetti.
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