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Hahaha, me too. Except my first language was Korean. I think if I didn't have to deal with the embarrassment of being in ESL, I never would have started reading books like crazy, and I never would've ended up in GATE, and then I wouldn't have ended up in Honors classes and then AP classes, and then I never would have made it into USC. Nothing like a little embarrassment to whip a person into shape.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yamaneko
I had to do ESL too, it was fun! <3 We read books and had easter egg hunts and stuff x]
*insert day of the week 'cause she forgot what vendredi is*morning oral exams suck -_-;Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
Ahem. English, as that's my native language. French (in my third year of learning it this year), some Italian, and very minimal Spanish and Japanese.
vendredi = friday.
I have a GCSE in French and know a handful of welsh words. Welsh isn't that hard, you just speak english in a funny accent and add 'iau' to the end of nouns and 'io' to the end of verbs. I can't speak English.
I want to learn polish but I dont even know how to pronounce the words :( Its like someone blattered a keyboard.
I love languages. They are my favourite things out of all the nerdy, geeky things that I like.
If a genie gave me one wish, I'd ask for subtitles.
English - First
French - Second
German - Third
Japanese - Eh, I dabble
Englisch und ein wenig Deutsch.
English is my mother tongue. Le français est ma deuxième langue.
In good theory, I should be fluently bilingual. I'd like to think that I have a native-speaker's comprehension of the French language. My actual skills in French have dramatically dropped throughout the years. This is also another reason why next year when I have a like 24 credits left in electives, that I want to take a French class to bring back my French. Not too sure if I want to take oral or writing. I would prefer to take writing but I believe oral would be more useful.
Currently, I am taking a class in Japanese. I have a bare minimum understanding. Most days, when my prof is speaking in Japanese, I know what she is saying, other times I am at a lost.
I studied Ancient Greek for a semester. Did not go too well. A difficult language. It also made me realize that French grammar is easy compared to Ancient Greek.
My native tongue is Arabic. My family started teaching me English when I was 3 years old, but I probably picked some words up here and there before then.
The school I went to up to the sixth grade taught us French but a year or two later I remembered none of it. I finished a Berlitz Level 1 course in French just last month and I'm waiting to start my Level 2 course sometime next week.
On my first year of college, I finished a Berlitz Level 2 course in Japanese. I used to read Hiragana/Katakana pretty well but it's been around four years and no practice so I don't remember much at all. I actually wanted to go back to learning Japanese instead of French earlier last summer but the only instructor available had an extremely busy schedule. Ended up being more interested in French some weeks later, and I still am.
One day, I plan to take up German.
For me it's Finnish, English, Swedish and a bit of German. :p