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magnetic_pole) wrote2018-01-29 09:19 pm
magnetic_pole) wrote2018-01-29 09:19 pm
Friday Five had a great weekend and is now ready to get back to work....
Via alisanne, the week's prompt from ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thefridayfive and my answers.
1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
Monolingual English speaker here who'd love to know Spanish! So useful. It should be required in the US, IMHO, and started much, much earlier than our current system allows. (In the school system I attended as a child, we only started a language at 15, having had no grammar beforehand. Needless to say, most of us didn't get very far.)
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
No national second language in the US. In the city where I live, public documents are also translated into Spanish, Vietnamese, Amharic, and sometimes Chinese.
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
To ten in French, German, and Spanish. (And English, of course.) To five in Cantonese and Japanese, though with a bad accent.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
Hm. Does overseas simply mean foreign, crossing a border? In which case, US to the Mexican border. Leaving the continent, US to the UK.
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
So many places I'd like to go! China is high on my list right now because I'm interested in the pace of urbanization there and the sheer scale of the new cities. Never been there before. Malaysia is always up there, too, because we visit friends there every five years or so, and our stay is always filled with wonderful food and conversation and local travel.
alisanne, the week's prompt from thefridayfive and my answers. 1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
1. After your first language, what language would you most like to learn? (Say first language too)
Monolingual English speaker here who'd love to know Spanish! So useful. It should be required in the US, IMHO, and started much, much earlier than our current system allows. (In the school system I attended as a child, we only started a language at 15, having had no grammar beforehand. Needless to say, most of us didn't get very far.)
2. Does your country have a second language? What is it?
No national second language in the US. In the city where I live, public documents are also translated into Spanish, Vietnamese, Amharic, and sometimes Chinese.
3. How many languages can you count to 5 in? To 10 in? List them.
To ten in French, German, and Spanish. (And English, of course.) To five in Cantonese and Japanese, though with a bad accent.
4. What is the first overseas country you visited? And from where? (ie/ timbuctoo to mars)
Hm. Does overseas simply mean foreign, crossing a border? In which case, US to the Mexican border. Leaving the continent, US to the UK.
5. What country do you most want to visit? And why?
So many places I'd like to go! China is high on my list right now because I'm interested in the pace of urbanization there and the sheer scale of the new cities. Never been there before. Malaysia is always up there, too, because we visit friends there every five years or so, and our stay is always filled with wonderful food and conversation and local travel.
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My first overseas countries are just like yours: Canada and UK. :)
Hope you make it to China! Would love to see your pics.
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The UK is a lovely first-overseas country, especially for cautious people like me. It was just different enough to whet my appetitive for me, and yet similar enough to figure out quickly and convince me that I could do it again, elsewhere, even where there were greater cultural barriers.
As for China, one day! M.