Languages

[Empired]

I did GCSE Spanish and then carried it on at A Level but the jump was too big (plus the class was wrong because I was learning independently and the teacher had lied about the syllabus) and I gave up.

I could never speak very well at all but I was always good at listening and knowing what other people were saying - I remember being in London and listening to a Spanish couple talk on the bus and being really happy that I knew what they were telling each other

[lemons]

well i did spanish for 3 years in school then changed to french for gcse and a-lvl but i have already forgotten 80% of what i learnt and now i do german at beginners level in uni which i am kinda enjoying

[dbgtz]

Think in Italian when I'm in my lesson or doing work for it. Also, though technically not a language, I have to think in "maths" when doing work for it (lots of symbols to shorten English, basically). Otherwise, it's English all the way (with the odd maths symbol creeping in)

[Kardan]

je n'ai pas de calculette - I do not have a calculator

That's about it.

[j0rd]

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

wow such a gog

english and a very tiny bit of welsh

[Inseriousity.]

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.

If it's more than 1, which language do you think in?

I asked my french teacher this once but she just looked at me like I was deranged. I'm glad there's someone who did subconsciously switch cos now it doesn't sound so stupid lol.

I'm a sleep talker and am told that I speak in different languages during the night.

My dad said he once heard me talking in french when I was asleep. I had a french exam coming up so that probably explained that.

I did A Level French but I've forgot most of it.

[Sho]

wow such a gog

hey leave me alone

[Drew]

I asked my french teacher this once but she just looked at me like I was deranged. I'm glad there's someone who did subconsciously switch cos now it doesn't sound so stupid lol.

Haha it's not exactly surprising but it is still a bit strange.

I have this weird thing with accents as well - I used to have a weird accent, like a mix of Asian & American (picked up from the TV shows I was watching I guess?) but after a year in Australia it has changed to somewhat like an Australian accent. I think it's still not 100% Aussie but I had friends at uni who thought I was Australian the entire time and I just thought that was ridiculous! Point is, I get influenced really easily by the accents around me - if I had studied in the UK, I probably would have an English accent by now! I used to be able to switch back to my old accent when I go home (so I don't get mocked by my friends) but last year I met an old friend at the airport and she was like "Oh my god you sound like an Australian now!" and I was just like oh no hahaha

[x-s-x]

I am half Turkish but I only talk & think in English, mainly because my Mother & Father(Turkish) parted ways when I was quite young. My Father has children with someone else and he would only speak Turkish to them and my Step Mother will only speak English to them. This way they will understand how to speak both properly. Sometimes I wish my Dad had somehow carried that on with me as I would of liked to know both Languages. I only understand a few basic words in Turkish

[N-Dubz]

speak english, german & maltese. i've known all these languages from birth since i've grown up in a multi-language household. funnily enough when im angry i think in maltese, otherwise it's typically always english. when i'm talking on the phone in public to my family i'll speak in maltese/german but always still be thinking in english, lmao sometimes its annoying af.