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| gerry Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5062 days ago 22 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: Spanish, Latin, German | Message 17 of 28 25 December 2011 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
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My dad knows English only. My mom and her side of the family know English and Spanish.
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4942 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 18 of 28 25 December 2011 at 3:59pm | IP Logged |
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Neither of my parents spoke any language other than English, but...
My parents moved to Phoenix, AZ shortly before retirement. After my mom died, we were going through all the stuff left behind in their house before selling it. I found a couple Spanish course books that my mom had acquired at some point after they'd moved there. So she had an interest in learning the language, but it's something I wasn't aware of while she was alive. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| birthdaysuit Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4629 days ago 48 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Swedish | Message 19 of 28 25 December 2011 at 5:01pm | IP Logged |
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No one around me was multilingual, unfortunately. My mother did, however, have an
interest in French (she didn't hesitate buying those awful Linguaphone cassettes they used to advertise years ago) and she really encouraged us with our languages. Today she is still "learning" Spanish, mainly stopping and starting with Michel Thomas (I introduced her to it). But since I've become obsessed, and she sees the progress I'm making, I think it's encouraging her to spend more time on it. For the time being, though, I'm quite happy to be the person to whom my family refers when people ask them "is anyone in your family multilingual?" Lol, it's gotta start somewhere, right? Edited by birthdaysuit on 25 December 2011 at 6:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| orion Senior Member United States Joined 6833 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 20 of 28 25 December 2011 at 7:05pm | IP Logged |
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Neither of my parents spoke anything but English, although my mom did take a year of French in high school in the early 1960's. She never really kept up with it though. My dad has never expressed any interest in anything foreign that I know of.
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| rivere123 Senior Member United States Joined 4642 days ago 129 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 21 of 28 25 December 2011 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
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Nearly all of my family over the age of 45 can speak French, which has been an inspiration for me.
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| Kevin Hsu Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4550 days ago 60 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin*, Korean Studies: German | Message 22 of 28 26 December 2011 at 12:18am | IP Logged |
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My family moved to Canada when I was in elementary so all my family members are
bilingual. It was my grade 8 French teacher who inspired me though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6677 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 23 of 28 26 December 2011 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
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My parents aren't keen on languages. However, my great-great uncle was a British Army intepreter in World War 2. He learned French and German, which was useful when he took part in the D-Day landings! When he was in his 60s he learned Spanish for fun.
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| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5434 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 24 of 28 26 December 2011 at 5:28am | IP Logged |
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My mother achieved a B1 level in English during her youth, but lost it with time. My dad
never knew English very well, although he did take some classes. He also took Italian at school, and he can still understand it, but probably it is more because Italian and Argentine Spanish are somewhat similar than due to the fact that he still retains some knowledge. You know, my family is pretty intellectual, but no one has ever been as interested in foreign languages as me. I do not know what made me so interested... I learnt to speak English really well because I was lucky enough to get good teachers and because of my undying love for Harry Potter, that eventually led to an undying love to all things British. Ánd I guess I just had this very superficial desire to learn a third language, just as another achievement. Then I discovered this forum and my passion for languages increased a lot. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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