Languages

[Drew]

I had an interesting epiphany a few days ago - English has become my first language since moving to Australia, and I realised that I have been thinking in English too. It's interesting for me as Mandarin is my mother tongue, but I've become so comfortable speaking in English that sometimes I'd pretend not to know Mandarin just so I could speak to someone in English! Other languages that I know are Malay, Cantonese and Hakka, although the last two are technically Chinese dialects. I also know a bit of Japanese.

How many languages do you know? If it's more than 1, which language do you think in?

[David]

English and some phrases in Spanish

I did 7 years of German through school, and can't remember anything about it.

[Samantha]

Just English, I only ever did French for 3 years at school, that was the only language option we had - I would love to learn it still though.

[-:Undertaker:-]

como te llama tengo un doth anos - hello i am 12

una pluma - fountain pen

una goma- rubber

una casa - house


and that's what i learnt from3 years of spanish.

[Cerys]

I did German for a year at GCSE and I only remember phrases of it, though that was like 5 years ago so

[Lucy]

English and Afrikaans, been learning Afrikaans because of my partner and I find myself constantly thinking of stuff in Afrikaans.

[Kyle]

I'm a sleep talker and am told that I speak in different languages during the night. I'm inclined to think that I just make up my own language and words in my sleep though, cos don't we all? I've lived briefly in france and french canada so I know how it feels to have that shift in thinking. I've found that watching TV shows or listening to radio or just having a conversation in a familiar but secondary language is a really surreal experience when you notice it's happening and you're not having to think very much. I speak english, french and russian but my thinking language remains predominantly english unless I've been fully immersed for at least 2 weeks.

[buttons]

ive learnt some Korean obviously lol, it's really much easier than you might think I just think the language sounds awesome and the alphabet looks nice!

[Sho]

i speak welsh and english. welsh is my first language and i started speaking english when i was about 7 (???). i studied french for 5 years at school, but i don't remember enough of it to speak it properly. maybe enough to hold a basic conversation and one or two useful phrases if i ever go to france, but that's it really.

i think in welsh since it's what i speak every day. the only time i speak welsh on skype etc is when @Jazzy; forces me to say random words like the llanfairpwll. village name lmao

[Absently]

English is the only language id consider myself fluent in. I know a good bit of Irish, as I studied it up until I left school but I find now I'm beginning to forget it without practice. My mum would some times talk to me in Irish but since I don't live there any more I haven't I studied German for five years and can remember bits and bobs of it. I used to get excited when I was in work and could hear Germans and was able to understand them