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My ancestors came to Quebec. They were supposodly explorers,which I think is pretty cool personally...My great-grandfather came to America, that's why I'm American now.
Lorraine? Do you speak German? Europeans often seem to be bilingual and I only speak 1 1/2 languages. Oh, and I understand a bit of japanese, but it's all from anime, so pretty useless
Lorraine? Do you speak German? Europeans often seem to be bilingual and I only speak 1 1/2 languages. Oh, and I understand a bit of japanese, but it's all from anime, so pretty useless
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. And to answer your question, despite having German ancestors and living practically on the border, no ^_^;. And most of those who learned German at school where I come from would be pretty useless in Germany (mainly because most of them were forced to take this language by their parents, so they were less than enthuastic about learning it...). About bilingualism, it's true for most European countries except for France, we have indeed a not-entirely-undesserved reputation for not being good at foreign languages. As for me, I speak and understand English, given it's been my first language in highschool and college, and Italian because my motherside family is Italian and I see my cousins frequently (though I lack vocabulary in some fields compared to English (courtesy of a particularly sadistic teacher who made us learn the entire French-English vocabulary book in the first year of college)). Concerning the use of anime to learn Japanese I don't think it's that useless, after all I progressed in English significantly when I started reading books and watching movies in the original version. Finally, thank you very much for sharing a bit of your family's history with me. By the way, when you say you speak one or two languages, is French included ? And if yes, is it French-Canadian or Metropolitan-French ?
. And to answer your question, despite having German ancestors and living practically on the border, no ^_^;. And most of those who learned German at school where I come from would be pretty useless in Germany (mainly because most of them were forced to take this language by their parents, so they were less than enthuastic about learning it...). About bilingualism, it's true for most European countries except for France, we have indeed a not-entirely-undesserved reputation for not being good at foreign languages. As for me, I speak and understand English, given it's been my first language in highschool and college, and Italian because my motherside family is Italian and I see my cousins frequently (though I lack vocabulary in some fields compared to English (courtesy of a particularly sadistic teacher who made us learn the entire French-English vocabulary book in the first year of college)). Concerning the use of anime to learn Japanese I don't think it's that useless, after all I progressed in English significantly when I started reading books and watching movies in the original version. Finally, thank you very much for sharing a bit of your family's history with me. By the way, when you say you speak one or two languages, is French included ? And if yes, is it French-Canadian or Metropolitan-French ?I wish I could speak French! No, unfortunatly I just speak some spanish.