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Old 08-20-2008, 10:31 AM
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What language did they speak to you growing up? Mine mainly spoke in English or there language but I always answered back in English, kinda good and bad because the only stuff I can speak well in their language are insults I have peaced together and dirty stuff. No one really speaks our language other then other Indian people from the exact same part of India so I'm good, but I know some of my Mexican friend that don't speak Spanish get a lot of eat **** looks when we are out some where and some one speaks Spanish to them and they answer in English.
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My mother is Korean and spoke it on the phone to her friends, but never to us kids. So I grew up speaking only English. I'm like you, now all I know are insults and stupid words.
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Dutch, and I now speak both fluently. By having the ability to speak more then just one language, you use more of your brain.
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Espanol, and I grew up speaking Spanish at home and English outside of the house of course.
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My parents are from here so only english, but my wife is from poland so i just bought the roseeta stone to learn polish. I wish i would have done this while my kids were younger so they would somewhat know the language from where there mother came
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^^^ im thinking about trying that roseta stone thing to learn spanish, its almost a must at my job...does the software make it easy?
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Originally Posted by BizZzatch350
but I know some of my Mexican friend that don't speak Spanish get a lot of eat **** looks when we are out some where and some one speaks Spanish to them and they answer in English.
I have had this happen to me too many times. They give you this look like you just told them about an STD you contracted.

Why should I have to speak spanish ? I do wish I spoke more, but I usually just tell people, I was born on this side of the river.
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Originally Posted by Bad_tx_Z28
^^^ im thinking about trying that roseta stone thing to learn spanish, its almost a must at my job...does the software make it easy?
im still waiting on it i just orderd it two days ago
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Parents spoke mainly spoke English and the occasional German.. I speak English and pretty good in German but also taking it as a second language in school.

They tried to force me to take Spanish in Highschool and failed it twice because I didnt want to learn it and the school tried to not let me graduate because of it...

Parents threatened to sue the school district and it ended there. I don't understand why they are trying to force Spanish on Highschool students in Texas.. This was like 8 years ago this happened to me so it may be different now.
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a little off topic but a real close friend of mine his mom is from mexico and his dad is greek, so he speaks 3 language's and sometime mixes the 3 together and you say WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?
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^^^ lol, Yeah I had a friend in Highschool whose mom was Vietnames and Dad was Mexican, he looked 100 asian but spoke spanish and not Vietnamese, people would trip out..lol,

I spoke spanish at home all the way till now, I even speak in spanish to my sisters who are bilingual but I speak and think in English
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This kind of along the same lines, but not in reference to me. My step Dad's mom is fluent in Spanish and his Dad is white, but he never learned Spanish. He looks hispanic, and when we were working for a roofing company doing estimates we went to Grand Prairie and almost every person/customer was baffled when he sounded whiter than me. HA HA...he was cussing his mom that day.
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my gf's parents are vietnamese, they dont really speak english at all.
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English, dad grew up in NM, so he is fluent spanish. i also learned spanish but not very fluent in it. i always loved being at my buddys house because he is guatimolin (lol SP?) because when his mom got pissed it was a mix of that language,spanis, and english... kind got everyone say WTF?
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Deutsch, Meine Mutter ist Deutsch.....I lived in Germany as a Army brat so i spoke german very well as a child but now I can speak a little of it plus it sounds cooler to curse someone out in the language of da Fatherland
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a lot of my friends were mexican growing up i didnt know what meho meant for a few years before i asked why everyone of there parents called me that LOL
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Originally Posted by 1meantransam
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I speak both English and Spanish fluently. Parents spoke to me in both growing up. I'm glad I speak both. Me and my sister are the only ones that do. My other cousins are domesticated. They are MexiCANT's
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