if you have a multilingual family, do you speak all their languages or just one/some?
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I had a couple friends who were raised to only speak English at home because their parents wanted them to be fluent and native sounding. One of them, the parents only ever learned basic English so as a concequence it is difficult to communicate any complexity. And functionally no communication with extended family.
That's a very old fashioned viewpoint and now we know extra languages dont ultimately prevent acquisition, although it can slow thing down a bit at first for an individual language.
I think knowing other languages at any level is only a good thing and kids can learn so much easier.
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My mother speaks German and my father Tajik, natively. They speak Russian with one another. I speak both of their native languages but only have a very basic grasp of Russian, since we moved to Germany when I was very young, still. My older brother speaks all three.
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There's a large population of Burmese in my city, and learning a bit would probably help with things at work sometimes, but yeah, not many resources.
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But not Romansh because that is a trash language.
JK. I'd love for it to have a larger comeback
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Both of my parents can speak our native language fluently but I can't. I can say some words and understand it slightly but I was never taught I'm nowhere near fluent.
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なぜ。なぜあたしの心を壊れてあげるの？
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makes a lot of sense, my mom can be like this with her family because she’s half-polish
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i once dated a girl (lost contact with her years ago) from myanmar. she spoke burmese at school (we were in high school) and with family but mainly spoke to her online friends and me. she also prefered english and while she could speak/understand spoken burmese, she could not read it without translating into english
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could she perhaps teach you?? burmese seems like a cool language
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do u think your mom will teach u again??
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code switching is awesome. sometimes i'll hear bilingual hispanic people being like "oh, by the way, ya has visto squid game (have you seen squid game yet)? it's so good"
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This happens to me with French. My grandparents always spoke French when they talked about us to my dad. I can't speak French but I can translate it quite well.
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Apprendi español primero. Depois aprendi português com meu irmão adotivo. Japanese is my worst, English is my best because I use it the most.
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ありがとう、嫌う！
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I kinda want to surprise her for when we get grand kids.
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