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Post by Salmastryon on Nov 8, 2004 13:03:55 GMT -5
*nods*
I understand completely.
I bordered my last two years of high school. There where only 2 other americans there. Everyone else was Japanese or Korean. Except for one chinese girl, a girl from Albania and another girl from brazil.
The bonus was my roommate and her friends talking didn't keep me up. I couldn't understand a word at that point. Downside was that often I felt very excluded. When the lounge is full of girls laughing and enjoying themselves in korean there isn't any real way to join in if you can't understand a word being spoken.
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Post by Blood_Debt on Nov 9, 2004 4:04:43 GMT -5
I feel the pain.
I get really embarrassed when my aunties and uncles start talking to me in Chinese and I don't get a WORD of it. And my cousins (all twenty-one of them!) speak it too.
e-d, don't you understand it's to annoy you? *snicker*. But seriously? It's a good way to tell secrets if you don't want other people to understand. And sometimes, it HAS to be kept secret. (Thinks back to embarrassing, um, things...)
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Post by kitsuneoni on Nov 9, 2004 4:57:45 GMT -5
I'm going to a pretty multilingual school, and everyone speaks at least a bit of Italian and fluent English, and most people understand French as well.
We have a bit habit of mixing languages when we talk, so I switch back and forth between languages with my friends because sometimes words in another language are better.
However, I always try to be careful to stick to languages the people I'm with know; for example I speak Fritanglish with close friends (French, Italian, and English) yet with some classmates I only speak English, and with others only Italian.
Sounds confusing, but I don't have any problems. ^^
I do dislike not knowing what people are saying. I'd love to be able to speak every single language in the world so that I'd always understand. I'm not nosy, it's just that I hate feeling excluded or just not understanding.
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