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Greek was the first language I spoke, but English is my first language.
I speak Greek with my parents and other relatives, but when my wife is there only English. I feel it is rude to exclude her from conversations. Other than that I don't really use it. My sister who is a nurse said it was invaluable when she was doing her studies.
I feel a bit torn about my children not learning Greek or Pontian which is dialect spoke by Greeks that lived in Asia Minor.
I speak Greek with my parents and other relatives, but when my wife is there only English. I feel it is rude to exclude her from conversations. Other than that I don't really use it. My sister who is a nurse said it was invaluable when she was doing her studies.
I feel a bit torn about my children not learning Greek or Pontian which is dialect spoke by Greeks that lived in Asia Minor.
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Doing your electrical apprenticeship next mate?
Love learning, and wouldnt mind learning a the electrical stuff.
I don't know how you'd be able to find the time in between your plumbing apprenticeship/builders license and becoming an astronaut
I can speak fluent Greek except when I'm being interviewed on live television. I was a speaker at a wealth creation event in cyprus with Bob Proctor and a few other people. Being a former refugee from cyprus, they wanted to do a live television interview for one of the stations.
I was happily chatting to everyone until we went live and I, for the life of me, was unable to interpret the meaning of their first question. After a few seconds of silence they asked it in English - my second language - then I got it!
I think in English and obviously revert to English under pressure - interesting.
I was happily chatting to everyone until we went live and I, for the life of me, was unable to interpret the meaning of their first question. After a few seconds of silence they asked it in English - my second language - then I got it!
I think in English and obviously revert to English under pressure - interesting.
I grew up speaking English. My parents speak 9 languages between them.
They were too scared, thinking I would be ostracised to speak anything other than English.
I think it was a shameful time in Oz then.
Now I speak French , Italian and crappy German so not so bad!
They were too scared, thinking I would be ostracised to speak anything other than English.
I think it was a shameful time in Oz then.
Now I speak French , Italian and crappy German
so not so bad!
I did 4 years of French in High School....haven't used it since then, so remember only broken parts of it.Anyone speak another language? Do you utilise the other language
Am curious, Italian my second language, when travelling Italy and Spain is brilliant
I only speak Italian with my mother though we could go English, just not right/comfortable... Funny that
Mtr
English is my second language. It is a fun language.
Chinese is the first language.
So they say with Chinese 5000 characters is a start. How do you feel now pinkboy?
Are you given a 10 months deadline to marrying a latina lady PB?
When I go to China, or when I order from China, I use a 3rd party guy who does the deal with his margin. He interprets everything for us. Cheap insurance instead of trying to decipher from suppliers over there. I have no desire to even try to learn Chinese, because where we mostly deal is not in the major cities, so Im guessing they have their own types of dialect.
Im moving abroad with my wife and daughter. Not sure the need to involve any Latino women?
pinkboy
I tried to move a broad but she wouldn't go.Im moving abroad with my wife and daughter. Not sure the need to involve any Latino women?
Im moving abroad with my wife and daughter. Not sure the need to involve any Latino women?
pinkboy
but - but - but - you only just finished building that magnificent swimming pool
Compulsory work or lifestyle choice move?
Like BV, I did 4 years of French - and can still get by with simple sentences ... but am hoping to study it again this year and would love to spend, at least, a year immersed in France sometime in the near-ish future.
It's not until you "have" to learn a language that you really grasp it (ie, the immersion) ... and when you start "thinking" in that language, instead of translating to yourself, is when you've nailed it.
I speak Italian to my parents. My children understand Italian but don't speak it. Having a Latin language helps overseas with French and Spanish. You probably find this too MTR.
One of my children has gone to school in Japan and has taught in Japan. She speaks fluent Japanese. I have watched so many Japanese movies with my kids that I should be speaking Japanese, but don't.
One of my children has gone to school in Japan and has taught in Japan. She speaks fluent Japanese. I have watched so many Japanese movies with my kids that I should be speaking Japanese, but don't.
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