2013-05-22, 12:10 PM
Eliul Wrote:English & Spanish.
I'm dominican.
High-five.
How many languages can you hold a five minute conversation in with a native speaker?
Three.
Which languages?
- English
- Spanish
- Dutch
How did you acquire these languages?
I learned English from my surroundings and school, essentially. It became my native language.
Spanish is my secondary, learned when I went to visit family in the Dominican Republic when I was 5 and our flight back home was delayed a few months due to a powerful hurricane. My family could never understand a word I said (I spoke English over everyone's Spanish) so they basically said "pineapple it, we're teaching you." Then I continued learning through just speaking with my mother.
Dutch is my elementary + high school language; everything was taught in Dutch, except for English classes.