jfab Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 When did you start to become a language enthusiast? And what's the first language outside your native tongue did you learn? And why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacey Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 My first language other than English was Spanish. We had to take a foreign language class in school and I was kind of forced into it because my school didn't offer any other languages. It took about a week and I fell in love with it. I couldn't get enough of learning and figuring out the different phrases and sounds that were there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litnax Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 English - it is part of my country's education so no choice really But I loved it. When I finally able to read my Archie comics without a dictionary, that was when I fully realized the benefit of being knowledgeable in a foreign language. My next target is Japanese by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dora M Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I always liked having conversations with people from all over the world and from every walk of life. I also like reading and writing. So it's only natural that I need to know different languages for that purpose. I grew up bilingual, speaking German and Serbo-Croatian. Later I learnt English and French, and a couple of years ago it became necessary and a pleasure to add Spanish to the list, after meeting my Latin American partner. I guess I have always been a language enthusiast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosa Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I became a language enthusiast in high school. I started doing Spanish for the first time. We had such a great teacher who would go beyond the syllabus and that really drew my attention to the language. When she spoke she was so fluent and I thought that if my teacher being a local could do it,then I could too . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g2narat Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 My mom says that I was talking before I could walk. She claims that I was conversing in sentences before I was one year old so if I'm to believe her, it seems that my love for language and communicating was innate. Of course, she might also just be exaggerating. :wacky: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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