The International/Bilingual Appreciation Thread

[acnh.eclipse]

From what I know, some of my ancestors were English, Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots, Dutch, Scottish, Belgian, and Native American(Shawnee). This is just what I know from a combination of what I've been told and what I've found from looking it up myself.

For language, English is my native language, and I'm currently learning Korean. I'd like to learn more languages as well in the future~

안녕 친구 (annyeong chingoo) glad to hear you are learning a language, korean is a beautiful language, and not to complicated to read, my friends said the hardest park about learning korean was not writing/reading, it was more know how to say words, so be proud that your confident enough to learn

 

[Oldcatlady]

Wow you have a really cool background!!

Both my parents are chinese and I’m pretty sure if I did a DNA test I’ll be like 99% Chinese haha..

I speak Chinese at home, but I moved to Canada when I was 5 years old so I can’t read or write in Chinese. My speaking is not that good either, I need to substitute words I don’t know with English/French. I lived in Montreal until ~high school so I exclusively spoke french with my friends/at school until then. I remember when I was trying to adjust to speaking French in kindergarten, people made fun of me. Then in grade 1, my classmates lowkey bullied me cause I couldn’t speak English at all?! Some people will bully you without a reason.
I never spoke English with friends so it didn’t get that good until high school when I moved to an English speaking city.

Now I have a bit of a language crisis because I’m below average for 3 languages I’m really rusty with French cause I haven’t spoken it in years. My Chinese isnt that good cause I only speak it with my parents about basic stuff. And my English isn’t that good either because I didn’t learn much grammar & some French pronunciations are ingrained in me so I have trouble speaking some words lol

 

[Asarena]

안녕 친구 (annyeong chingoo) glad to hear you are learning a language, korean is a beautiful language, and not to complicated to read, my friends said the hardest park about learning korean was not writing/reading, it was more know how to say words, so be proud that your confident enough to learn

안녕! Yeah, the pronunciation of certain things can be a bit tricky at times, but I've definitely enjoyed the learning experience so far~

 

[Katzenjammer]

Oops! I didn't mean to post! Sorry ;w;

 

[Rubygame]

Guys it's too good to read the posts in this thread, your stories are all so unique and interesting! I too would like to tell you something beautiful but I don't know the history of my family, my grandfather on my father's side was adopted and we don't know anything about him. Instead my mother's family has always lived in my country: Italy. I'm Italian but here in Italy we speak a lot of dialects depending on the region and the city you live in, I know Italian, Neapolitan and I read English fluently but I have really difficulty speaking it.
There is a song by K.K. called "Neapolitan", it is very reminiscent of popular culture songs from my city:

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I would love to learn several languages well! In middle school I studied a little French, but very little. Italy has many problems and one of them is teaching languages at a too basic level, especially English which everyone should know very well but at school they teach it very blandly, especially in Southern Italy we have many problems with the school situation . One day I hope that I will be able to travel and see many beautiful places both in my country and in the rest of the world! Every culture is a cradle of wonder

P.s. Do you know that Naples and the city of Kagoshima in Japan are considered twin sisters?

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[VernalLapin]

English is my first language, but my dad taught me some German and a little bit of Russian growing up. I was shocked at how much I knew when I started taking German in high school (which I did for 4 years). I scored pretty well on my biliteracy test but I’m rusty now ^^; My dad and I still use some German phrases today though!

Also, I want to learn Spanish next c:

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

My family is from Taiwan and my dad can speak both English and Chinese. I have some compression of basic Spanish. My Uncle George can’t speak Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and English but I think some of it is lost due to him having Alzheimer’s.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

My mom is Inuit and my dad is part native (other than that I'm not really sure what ethnicity he is), so I'm at least half-Indigenous! I used to be able to speak a bit of Inuktituk when I was younger, but stuff happened and I lost the language; Save for a couple of words like nanuk (polar bear), kamiik (boots), etc. My most fluent language is English and I can also speak French since I'm from Quebec, Canada!

 

[Foreverfox]

I absolutely love this thread! I read through every post and it’s so cool to learn about everyone’s heritage! I’m American, so English is my first language. On my bilingual journey, I started with Spanish in high school and took that for 3 years until our Spanish teacher left and we had a bunch of subs that didn’t know Spanish. I was bummed because I actually got to a conversational point with it up until then. Then I spent 4 years studying French, and unfortunately I didn’t get nearly as far as I’d like to have. I did get to a point where I could read most French, and I was dreaming in French for a while, but I could never speak it.

I’m 25% Swedish, my dad being half Swedish, so I really want to learn Swedish to feel closer to my roots. Somehow, my dad never learned it growing up, so he can’t teach it to me. My stepchildren are half Ukrainian from their mom and they speak English first, then Russian, so I’m learning Russian too. I’ve always been fascinated with Cyrillic and the Russian language in general.

So the TL;DR version is overall, I speak English, and want to learn French, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Arabic.

Yes, I know this is INCREDIBLY ambitious.