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06-15-2009, 05:32 PM
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#26 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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English - Mr Rogers/Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Mandarin - Parents
Cantonese - Friends
Spanish - summer school
French - Grade 7-11
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06-15-2009, 05:47 PM
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#27 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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English - first language i spoke in the philippines
Philippino - Tagalog and Cebuano (was born in Cebu)
Farsi - my dad is iranian
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06-15-2009, 05:59 PM
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#28 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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ppl need to stop mentioning french
I wouldn't consider knowing a language just because you took it in HS and can say and understand a few basic sentences
I speak mandarin @ home and can understand canto but not that good at speaking since I have no1 to converse with, used to be pro
read & write pretty well too
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06-15-2009, 06:01 PM
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#29 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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English - first language, fluent
Tagalog - parents and grandparents speak it at home; I can understand everything; takes me a while to come up with certain words when replying
French - conversational, I can understand if you talk slooowwly
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06-15-2009, 06:36 PM
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#30 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Orange
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06-15-2009, 06:57 PM
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#31 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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english
mandarin - took course on it
cantonese (can understand 2 dialects of it) - family
french - High school... probably still under stand some french
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06-15-2009, 08:12 PM
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#32 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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English
Punjabi (from home)
Hindi(can understand it)
Spanish (School if it counts)
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06-16-2009, 12:18 AM
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#33 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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English
Cantonese (parents wouldn't speak a lick of English to me out of principal, thank goodness they didn't)
Mandarin - went to Chinese school here in Chinatown starting at age 13, 5 days a week for 3 years, topped with a 4-month exchange in Taiwan where I specifically avoided CBCs/ABCs. My parents knew what they were doing, and I am VERY thankful.
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06-16-2009, 12:25 AM
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#34 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Cantonese - mother tongue
English - I think I speak ok. White people think I have accent, fuck them they have white accent.
Mandarin - mandatory course in highschool
Japanese - attempting to pick up chicks with that shit. JLPT Lvl1
learned to read in German given you throw me a dictionary and a few hours to play with it. C+ in German for readin knowledge @ SFU
I don't know what I want to study from here on lol.
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06-16-2009, 12:29 AM
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#35 | | Need my Daily Fix of RS
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English - CBC
Chinese decent -family
Spanish amazing - school
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06-16-2009, 12:33 AM
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#36 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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English (everywhere)
Polish (home)
And yeah I took french back from middle school to high school, hate french and don't know it.
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06-16-2009, 12:35 AM
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Fluent:
English - Native tongue
French - High school/friends
German - Parents/self-taught
Not as fluent:
Japanese - Martial Arts/self-taught .... I know quite a few spoken phrases and could probably survive on my own in Japan, provided they're willing to speak with a white boy who speaks broken Japanese. Written Japanese, not so much, as I don't know any characters
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06-16-2009, 12:49 AM
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#38 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Mandarin - First language
Taiwanese - Parents, Relatives, and very down to earth TW friends XD
English - ESL!!!! Come on~ all you immigrants have been through this stage!!
Cantonese - G/f, canto friends, and my boss.
Japanese - Only know a few words and sentences from Jap porn.  | |
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06-16-2009, 01:19 AM
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100% Asian Blood
0% Canto 0% Mandarin =
5th Generation AsianCanadian FTW.
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06-16-2009, 01:19 AM
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#40 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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Hokkien - Mother tongue
Indonesian - Born there
English - Lived in Canada for 12 yrs + ppl say I'm white washed lol
Malaysian - very similar to Indonesian
Mandarin - super rusty now but spoke it for 2 yrs in Singapore at school and w/ friends.
Singlish - Singaporean English hahaha
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06-16-2009, 01:26 AM
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#41 | | Orgasm Donor & Alatar owned my ass twice!
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taiwanese - i'm taiwanese
mandarin - most of my taiwanese friends speak mando
english - lived in canada most my life
french - learned french when i started learning english
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06-16-2009, 02:29 AM
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#42 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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Originally Posted by Nintensity  100% Asian Blood
0% Canto 0% Mandarin =
5th Generation AsianCanadian FTW. | Serious??5th Generation? What year would that be?? 1800?
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06-16-2009, 02:34 AM
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#43 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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I was born in Shanghai and I moved to Vancouver when I was three so I picked up English in school (did ESL until Grade 3 or 4). At home, I speak Cantonese (dad from Hong Kong) and Mandarin (mom from Shanghai) - fluent with both. I understand Shanghainese perfectly (grew up listening to mom's side of the family) but I can't speak it fluently. I was also forced into Chinese school for most of elementary and high school so I can read most Chinese.
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06-16-2009, 08:11 AM
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#44 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by unidentified I was born in Shanghai and I moved to Vancouver when I was three so I picked up English in school (did ESL until Grade 3 or 4). At home, I speak Cantonese (dad from Hong Kong) and Mandarin (mom from Shanghai) - fluent with both. I understand Shanghainese perfectly (grew up listening to mom's side of the family) but I can't speak it fluently. I was also forced into Chinese school for most of elementary and high school so I can read most Chinese. | that's what I am going to do with my kid as well.
I was worried that I might mess him/her up with all these languages lol
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06-16-2009, 08:24 AM
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#45 | | degenerate extraordinaire
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English - was born here
Cantonese - fluent - spoken at home and grandparents denied knowing english 
French - late french immersion
Mandarin - umm, took 1 course at langara, but not enough confidence to communicate with anybody. Better understood than spoken.
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06-16-2009, 10:09 AM
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#46 | | RS controls my life!
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english - school
cantonese - parents
tuoi san - grandparents
mandarin - class + sing K + twanger friends
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06-16-2009, 11:54 AM
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#47 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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english
punjabi
hindi - enough to get by
ebonics
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06-16-2009, 12:05 PM
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#48 | | I don't get it
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Originally Posted by slammer111 English
Cantonese (parents wouldn't speak a lick of English to me out of principal, thank goodness they didn't)
Mandarin - went to Chinese school here in Chinatown starting at age 13, 5 days a week for 3 years, topped with a 4-month exchange in Taiwan where I specifically avoided CBCs/ABCs. My parents knew what they were doing, and I am VERY thankful. | DAMN you are lucky. I'm really pissed my parents didn't do something like that when i was younger. I mean, when you're young and don't know anything, that's when you learn languages best. You learn it naturally. Quote:
Originally Posted by wouwou that's what I am going to do with my kid as well.
I was worried that I might mess him/her up with all these languages lol | I'm definitely gonna make sure my kids know both canto and mando.
I'm currently studying both languages like mad, watching tv series, learning to read (a little, since it helps with subtitles), and speak. thank god I'm not really learning from scratch so it's not too bad.
My cousins in the states all speak fujianese because it's our dialect, but they also speak mandarin and vietnamese (parents came from cambodia region) and of course English.
They don't know cantonese, but at least they have a few languages under their belt.
damn
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06-16-2009, 01:19 PM
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#49 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Originally Posted by MXQBLGH DAMN you are lucky. I'm really pissed my parents didn't do something like that when i was younger. I mean, when you're young and don't know anything, that's when you learn languages best. You learn it naturally. | Thanks  Mind you though, I was one of those really "obedient" kids. It does depend on the kid. My sister was the crazy rebellious type, and didn't pay attention in class and refused to go blah blah.. now she can't even read the menu at bbt.
The Mandarin segment of my life was actually REALLY painful because at that point I was so whitewashed (ALL my friends were white) and all my friends thought I was a retard for going through that. You know how easily influenced kids are in their earlier teens. The kid has to be too dumb to bend to peer pressure. 
Word of advice: if you were to do this with your kid, DO IT EARLIER. 13 was way the hell too late. Instead of just picking it up, it was 1-2h per day of trying to memorize every individual character, and yeah, I cried a lot over my textbooks. My spoken Mandarin didn't smooth out until I was dumped into an Engrish-speaking country (ie Taiwan), during which I also learned that Asian kids went to foreign places called "KTV" and "night markets" and "Chinese restaurants", listened to strange people like "Jay Chow", and tended not to hang out in Irish pubs. Mind you, this step can be substituted with having actual Fobby friends, but if your friends are white, you're screwed.
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06-16-2009, 01:35 PM
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#50 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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English of course
Cantonese (spoken), can read a bit but reading comprehension is poor.
Studied French & Japanese in HS but that's not worth mentioning.
I'm sending my kid(s) to Chinese school for sure!
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