I don't know if my poll answers need a bit of explanation, but you get one anyway. ;)
I'm not a native English speaker. In fact, I didn't speak any English till about age 5 when I started school. But tbh, I've been speaking English pretty much since that time, and arguably I speak it better than any of the other languages I speak.
I learned my native tongue via my parents (imagine that), but I also learned a couple of other Indian languages by cultural osmosis (movies, mostly). I grew up in Canada in an officially bilingual city, so I learned French in school, and later, we lived in Francophone Africa, so more cultural osmosis/immersion, lol.
At college, I learned German (because of a boy...isn't that always the reason, lol?), and I really enjoyed that. Then, because I wasn't quite done with the whole language thing, I also learned Italian. I'm not fluent by any means, however.
Finally, thanks to law school, I have a working knowledge of Latin, although again, nowhere near fluency.
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Date: 2011-02-19 08:05 pm (UTC)I'm not a native English speaker. In fact, I didn't speak any English till about age 5 when I started school. But tbh, I've been speaking English pretty much since that time, and arguably I speak it better than any of the other languages I speak.
I learned my native tongue via my parents (imagine that), but I also learned a couple of other Indian languages by cultural osmosis (movies, mostly). I grew up in Canada in an officially bilingual city, so I learned French in school, and later, we lived in Francophone Africa, so more cultural osmosis/immersion, lol.
At college, I learned German (because of a boy...isn't that always the reason, lol?), and I really enjoyed that. Then, because I wasn't quite done with the whole language thing, I also learned Italian. I'm not fluent by any means, however.
Finally, thanks to law school, I have a working knowledge of Latin, although again, nowhere near fluency.