Growing up bilingual: my experience! (Page 2)

[Anonymous]

I wasn't raised bilangual, but started learning the second language around age 3 or 4. It was rather easy I guess to learn the 3rd language, but as soon as I started learning the 4th language I lost all interest in the 3rd language and sort of forgot all of it 🙈
I do plan on raising my children bilangual.

[archiz]

exactly the same things I dealt/am dealing with lol
but I am even trilingual so it s harder xD

[FOOLibra]

Wow, what languages did you grow up with? :o

[archiz]

lol thanks :P
arabic french and English ^^
I wanna learn new ones though :/ like german or Spanish

[FOOLibra]

No worries haha :p
Ah, I see! That's interesting. I can also speak English, French and some Italian but I don't count them because I only learnt those languages in school.

You can still do that now, it is hard to get started but if you keep practising, one day you'll be able to talk in complex sentences :)

[archiz]

ow I though it's based on fluency and not what you learned in school :/
but still when I was a kid my parents used to talk to me in all 3 so...
Spanish would be easy cause I know french
german is the challenging part but I llike it :)

[FOOLibra]

I think it can be seen both ways. It that case you're a trilingual either way :)

Yes, German may be quite challenging haha. Still do-able though!

[archiz]

Sure thing girl^^
When I do start learning german I am gonna train a bit with you then haha

[FOOLibra]

I'd be glad to help you haha😘

[ElissaDido]

The Lebanese phrase : Hi Kifak cava? :P haha 3 languages in one sentence, my friends in HS used to have T-shirts with this written on it :P

[archiz]

@ElissaDido exactly lol xD
it's frustrating cause when people from abroad wanna hear my language, unconsciously I go like that and they re like that s not arabic. I am like correct it's lebanese xD

[ElissaDido]

Yay it's all true, I also grew up speaking Tunisian-Arabic (high five Tunisian sista haha) and French, and I learned English later on during Middle School, although it has it's benefits, sometimes I start mixing up the 3 lol :P

[phil2]

I was born into a hmong speaking family, and later at age 5 learned English. Both my kids only speak English. .. my parents want me to teach hmong but I don't have any hmong people in the city I live...

[lime_rampljuset]

I was raised bilingual (English, and Polish), then learnt Spanish, French and the other languages I speak.

[lime_rampljuset]

The funny thing is that I almost never use Polish, I think last time I used it was when I was 12-years old.

[FOOLibra]

Really? :o Don't you live in Poland? And what language do you speak when you talk to your parents or grandparents?

[lime_rampljuset]

My adoptive mother speaks Speaks Polish and English, among other languages... we mostly use English to speak.

[anshin]

Im bilingual. I speak English, my mother tongue plus province dialect. i love learning languages hence I studied Japanese and Korean, not fluent though but I can read the characters lol

[Clarisa_]

Awesome myTake love! And yes, I'm also bilingual- Spanish & English. We speak Spanglish at home all the time. I like speaking Spanish more though!

[FOOLibra]

Thank you, Clarisa!! 🐻

[Sabretooth]

you gotta watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjb10WUZFs&ab_channel=WalterLathamComedy

[FOOLibra]

Lmao 😂😂

[Sabretooth]

Told ya

[takumii]

Omg same, I had to learn two different languages apart from English growing up. I am fluent in them but not proficient, and at some point I was like fuck them, English is much better

[kendott]

Mostly everyone is bilingual where I live. No biggie

[sp33d]

Wasn't raised bilingual, my first language is Russian, but I had to teach myself to keep up with everything that was happening.

[COCOCHANEL]

i was raised bilingual and if i have children i will raise them the same way