What is your 2nd and 3rd or 4th language? And how?
By caesarin
@caesarin (1089)
Indonesia
March 26, 2007 7:52pm CST
Mine is Chinese and English. Chinese because I'm Chinese so my parents teach me some. I got English from formal education, school. I took English Literature when I'm in college. Once I got Germans for 1 yr on my Senior High but I didn't continue learning it. Also studied Japanese for a short period. I love studying foreign language but not through formal language courses (because it bores me) but more like interacting with the native speakers, reading books and listens to the audio tape. How about you?
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4 responses
@paulific (189)
• Philippines
27 Mar 07
my first language is one of the local dialects here in the southern part of the Philippines, it's Visayan. so, my second language would be, Filipino, the official language of the Philippines. My third language would be English, it is taught in our school from pre-school to college. and my fourth would be spanish, only a bit, my parents and grandparents have spanish blood.
@aprilsong (1884)
• China
27 Mar 07
for me,my mother tongue is chinese,and i have learned english from primary school.well, i think i can speak fluent spoken english after all these yrs study,and i learned japanese in college as a second language,i can only understand some simple sentences in japanese.
@coolcat123 (4387)
• India
27 Mar 07
Mine second language is English because its an worldwide language and most of the people has english classes in school.Then,My thingd language is Urdu as I am a muslim and t is compulsary for all Muslims to study Urdu and the forth is Arabic as I was born in UAE but my nationality is Indian.
@ag_abscruzmd (2283)
• United States
27 Mar 07
I'm a Filipino and my second language is English. It is quite easy to learn because it is the medium of instruction in most Philippine schools. My third language is Spanish because I hail in a province whose dialect has a Spanish mix. Some of the Filipino words also came from the Spanish language anyway, so it's also easy to learn. I've taught in an international school, and I got exposed to French and German people. I have learned to understand some of the words, but I didn't get to continue on practicing said languages because I came here in the U.S. to teach. I can just say that learning a language really entails practice, not entirely through classroom learning.