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Ioan
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My World of Languages

I can only suppose that English was my first contact with a foreign language. I vaguely remember that my mother used to recite a poem in another foreign language (Russian). I used to watch cartoons in English almost all my childhood. Teen years meant I also added French to my language contacts as a language taught in school and I once had a deskmate from the Russian minority. I learned to recognise the Cyrillic alphabet from an encyclopedia. (And I've picked up bad pronunciation of Russian words). I can talk some basic stuff in both French and Russian. As an adult I have started to listen to Arabic music (more specifically Egyptian and Lebanese), but I guess I like to listen to music from all over the world. I guess I would like to learn some Arabic (music means I already know a few words and I have taught myself the alphabet). I have a good friend who lives in Finland (I think he has been living there for at least 15 years). I had more than 300 days of Duolingo streak because of Finnish. I obviously do not speak Finnish and jungling with double vowels and double consonants is a hassle for me. I like Scandinavian movies, series and music so it's not out of the question to switch to Swedish if I will ever want to embrace some local culture while visiting in Finland. It's quite easy to give up on a foreign language. Staying committed is hard. How about you? How do you relate to the foreign languages you're interested? (edited)

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Growing up, i heard a lot of Tagalog and English at home; hard to determine which was my first language. But at some point, i dropped Tagalog completely, and although i've always been able to understand it, i'd respond in English. In my middle school years, i started to become a bigot and pretty racist, as i noticed the online world spoke a lot of Spanish (eventually, i learned to appreciate the beauty of it and realized English is not as cool of a language as society makes it seem). Took français in high school for three years, and started appreciating other languages. In college, i took 中文 for 2 years, as the character system had always intrigued me. I tried to learn Cantonese as well, but they dropped it from the school after i studied for one quarter (which is similar to a semester). Took tiếng Việt for one year, as a lot of my friends spoke Vietnamese in elementary school, and i always thought it sounded cool. But it remains the most difficult language for me. When i started working at dental, i realized my 中文 was a lot better than my Tagalog, so i started practicing speaking with patients. Some people think i have a Visayan accent and some people are impressed i can speak Tagalog, being born in the US, as it is a dying language, even in the Philippines. A lot of my nephews and nieces there only speak English. I tried sharpening my Việt through Duolingo, but it's just a really difficult language. I tried learning Русский through Duolingo, and it was a lot easier than tiếng Việt. Surprisingly, when i did 23andme recently, i found out that i have a sizeable amount of Chinese and Vietnamese blood. I'd expected more Spanish blood, as Spain invaded the Philippines for a long time, but that was only less than 1%.

Growing up, i heard a lot of Tagalog and English at home; hard to determine which was my first language. But at some point, i dropped Tagalog completely, and although i've always been able to understand it, i'd respond in English. In my middle school years, i started to become a bigot and pretty racist, as i noticed the online world spoke a lot of Spanish (eventually, i learned to appreciate the beauty of it and realized English is not as cool of a language as society makes it seem). Took français in high school for three years, and started appreciating other languages. In college, i took 中文 for 2 years, as the character system had always intrigued me. I tried to learn Cantonese as well, but they dropped it from the school after i studied for one quarter (which is similar to a semester). Took tiếng Việt for one year, as a lot of my friends spoke Vietnamese in elementary school, and i always thought it sounded cool. But it remains the most difficult language for me. When i started working at dental, i realized my 中文 was a lot better than my Tagalog, so i started practicing speaking with patients. Some people think i have a Visayan accent and some people are impressed i can speak Tagalog, being born in the US, as it is a dying language, even in the Philippines. A lot of my nephews and nieces there only speak English. I tried sharpening my Việt through Duolingo, but it's just a really difficult language. I tried learning Русский through Duolingo, and it was a lot easier than tiếng Việt.

Surprisingly, when i did 23andme recently, i found out that i have a sizeable amount of Chinese and Vietnamese blood. I'd expected more Spanish blood, as Spain invaded the Philippines for a long time, but that was only less than 1%.

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