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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 18:09:23 GMT
permanent members?
Standard Mandarin - kindergarten in Shenzhen, China
English - grade 1 in Richmond, British Columbia. K I guess I was taught a little at my private elementary school in China but the teachers' pronunciation was terrible.
French - grade 5 in Coquitlam, British Columbia
Russian - when I was 25, on my phone
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 5:47:43 GMT
Impressive.
My native language is English.
I speak Spanish when I'm having sex and I actually believe there should be a rotating Latin American member of the Security Council. Spanish is definitely one of the world's most important languages, more so than French or Russian.
I took Latin in high school and it's actually a more important language than any Security Council language except English.
I learned French in college.
I took a Mandarin class later but ditched it for some reason or another.
Russian is very useful in my neighbourhood especially in my profession as a grocery cashier. Today, for example, I understood a mom and son point out to each other that a bag of cherries was десять долларов ($10...it was actually $9-something) as if it was too expensive and they were debating whether to buy it. Then there was a guy who comes in regularly who asks me можете/можешь (Can you?) questions and although I wouldn't understand every word I'll get that he wants to leave an item behind or requests his change in all loonies. Though today I totally gave myself away as a fake Russian speaker because he asked me about watermelons which I didn't understand and he asked in English instead. He still told me хороший день (good day). |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 6, 2020 8:13:55 GMT
English- 3rd grade
French -never learned it, but i could have in 7th grade but i learned German instead.
Russian- never learned it
Mandarin- never learned it
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Jul 6, 2020 16:36:38 GMT
Cool!
My primary language is English.
Started taking French in grade 4. Had to take it up until grade 9 (needed 1 credit for high school). However, I ended up taking it in grade 9, 10, 11 and 12 (OAC = Ontario Academic Credit).
Started taking Spanish in grade 10. When I was in grade 9, it was only offered in grade 11. However, the next year, it was dropped a grade to make it a grade 10 class. I might have taken it anyway since I could take a grade 11 class in grade 10. But, it worked out well as many of my peers were in the class. I would have probably been so far out of place - being in grade 10 when the majority of the class is in grade 11. I ended up taking it in grade 10, 11 and 12 (OAC). I also took Introduction to Spanish in my first year of university. At the time, there was no prerequisite. So, someone like me, who had taken OAC Spanish, could take the class. However, having a look at the course descriptions for the next school year, the stipulation was put that those who have taken OAC Spanish in high school would not be allowed to take this class.
Started taking Russian in 3rd year university. Sadly, that was the only year that I took a Russian class. There was a course offered after this. However, they only had 2 other students sign up for it. So, it wasn't offered.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 16:53:01 GMT
Russian is very useful in my neighbourhood especially in my profession as a grocery cashier. Today, for example, I understood a mom and son point out to each other that a bag of cherries was десять долларов ($10...it was actually $9-something) as if it was too expensive and they were debating whether to buy it. Then there was a guy who comes in regularly who asks me можете/можешь (Can you?) questions and although I wouldn't understand every word I'll get that he wants to leave an item behind or requests his change in all loonies. Though today I totally gave myself away as a fake Russian speaker because he asked me about watermelons which I didn't understand and he asked in English instead. He still told me хороший день (good day). Russian sounds practical for you.
I told you my boyfriend is a Tamil tiger! I've considered learning it. But if I'm going to put the effort into learning an Indian language, Hindi seems like the better choice. Hindi uses the Sanskrit script. Tamil has its own script. Sanskrit is a holy language though and more essential. Wonderful spells could be written in Sanskrit! It is the language of god. The power of Brahma draws me.
Tamil script:
என் காதலன் ஒரு தமிழ் புலி என்று சொன்னேன்! நான் அதைக் கற்றுக் கொண்டேன். ஆனால் நான் ஒரு இந்திய மொழியைக் கற்க முயற்சிக்கப் போகிறேன் என்றால், இந்தி சிறந்த தேர்வாகத் தெரிகிறது.
Hindi script:
मैंने आपको बताया कि मेरा प्रेमी एक तमिल बाघ है! मैंने इसे सीखने पर विचार किया है। लेकिन अगर मैं भारतीय भाषा सीखने की कोशिश में लग जाऊं, तो हिंदी बेहतर विकल्प लगती है।
I remember that "How many languages can you name?" thread. The Indian subcontinent is full of languages and high populations of speakers but very little of the Anglophone world is aware of them. Though I live in a neighbourhood where there are a lot of South Asian people and I see housing ads for tenants who speak a certain language, like Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati, etc. The most hilarious thing about knowing some Russian is when my boyfriend's mom calls him during the middle of sex asking what he's doing and he replies гуляю (I'm taking a walk). And he told me a детский дом (children's house) is for infertile couples who want kids and not for picking up slaves. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 20:02:34 GMT
I remember that "How many languages can you name?" thread. The Indian subcontinent is full of languages and high populations of speakers but very little of the Anglophone world is aware of them. Though I live in a neighbourhood where there are a lot of South Asian people and I see housing ads for tenants who speak a certain language, like Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati, etc. The most hilarious thing about knowing some Russian is when my boyfriend's mom calls him during the middle of sex asking what he's doing and he replies гуляю (I'm taking a walk). And he told me a детский дом (children's house) is for infertile couples who want kids and not for picking up slaves. And thanks to the British every educated Indian knows English.
And he told me a детский дом (children's house) is for infertile couples who want kids and not for picking up slaves.
Slaves?  Lol. You'll have to explain that one.  And as a Chinese kid I wasn't allowed to go out on my own as a teenager and my parents told me it was because human traffickers would kidnap and sell me for slave labour (or sexual exploitation, or organ harvesting), even though I grew up in Canada and many Canadian teens have jobs at that age. I guess I'm showing how much of a 3rd-world product I am, eh? |
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Post by mecano04 on Jul 6, 2020 22:03:56 GMT
French is my native and everyday life language (except on the Internet).
Back in the days, we only began learning English in 4th grade, these days it's in kindergarten or 1st grade.
Never learned Mandarin or Russian.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2020 3:13:44 GMT
www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46390627And as a Chinese kid I wasn't allowed to go out on my own as a teenager and my parents told me it was because human traffickers would kidnap and sell me for slave labour (or sexual exploitation, or organ harvesting), even though I grew up in Canada and many Canadian teens have jobs at that age. I guess I'm showing how much of a 3rd-world product I am, eh? I knew such evil existed in the third world but I wasn't aware of how common. Where in China or Asia were you born? Honghu, Hubei. It's so weird that some white people have finally heard of my home province this year. And I've read enough horror stories of kids adopted from Eastern European orphanages by Westerners that end in tragedy that I have a preconceived notion of the abuse that must be rife there. Like a Polish-born girl who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, or a Romanian-born woman who was convicted of killing cats in British Columbia, or a Russian boy who started fires in his new American home and was sent back on a plane with a handwritten note. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2020 4:30:50 GMT
Honghu, Hubei. It's so weird that some white people have finally heard of my home province this year. And I've read enough horror stories of kids adopted from Eastern European orphanages by Westerners that end in tragedy that I have a preconceived notion of the abuse that must be rife there. Like a Polish-born girl who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, or a Romanian-born woman who was convicted of killing cats in British Columbia, or a Russian boy who started fires in his new American home and was sent back on a plane with a handwritten note. So you were born in the People's Republic. I thought it was difficult to immigrate. How did you and your family leave China and move to Canada? in 2000 |
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Jul 7, 2020 4:35:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2020 4:44:09 GMT
i burned a cd that included the red army choir's rendition of that when i was 15. i'm surprised i didn't start learning russian then. |
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Post by loofapotato on Jul 7, 2020 4:55:28 GMT
My 10 words in Russian that I've already forgotten all learned from a bald and bankrupt Englishman who likes to tour at everything ex-SSR. Ypa!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2020 5:10:32 GMT
My 10 words in Russian that I've already forgotten all learned from a bald and bankrupt Englishman who likes to tour at everything ex-SSR. Ypa! Were any of them Советский велосипед (Soviet bicycle) or Советский автобус остановка (Soviet bus stop)? |
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Post by loofapotato on Jul 7, 2020 23:05:42 GMT
My 10 words in Russian that I've already forgotten all learned from a bald and bankrupt Englishman who likes to tour at everything ex-SSR. Ypa! Were any of them Советский велосипед (Soviet bicycle) or Советский автобус остановка (Soviet bus stop)?
More like Soviet Bus stations
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