Re: FINAL QUESTION: your natlangs. Sorry this is the last of the survey...

De: Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Fecha: Domingo 4 de Octubre de 1998 19:45

>This should have been on the survey as well.  Mea maxima culpa... I don'=
t
>mean to tax your patience.  But an obvious question to ask is whether
>your interest in inventing languages has some congruence with your
>learning or having learned another natural language.  As for me, I went
>into languages because of a secret need to fuel the invention engine for
>Teonaht.  Other people may have gone into conlanging because they are
>bilingual.  Mia's remark stirred my curiosity as well.  How many of you
>conlangers know other languages, and what is the extent of that knowledg=
e?
>Sally

My native language, as posted in this list, is Spanish, Bogot=E1 modern
dialect (acrolect maybe).  Both of my parents are from central Colombia, =
so
Central Colombian Andean Dialect is the one I allways heared at home.

At school we followed English but teachers were always most interested in
grammatics and lecture comprenhention than in talking and pronunciation. =
 I
took lessons on Enlgish after that.  Both at school and the particular
lessons were oriented at Amerincan English.

I've live in Sweden, due to my father's work, and last time I spend almos=
t
two and a half year.  I studied Swedish, British English in English, Engl=
ish
in Swedish, English on TV (American movies and series mainly and Brithish
English from MTV Europe).

I was tought French at School, but forgot a great deal so I usually don't
count French.  I've take some lessons in Italian and German but no formal
class and no continuity.  So I don't count them either.

Then, my natlangs are Spanish, English and Swedish.  I can read all them
well, I can let me understand in any of them writtenly (I hope you
understand me), I swer in any of them, I can get the topic of a
conversation, but my Swedish pronunciation is awfull.

I've found myself able to understand a text in Portugues, Italian, Norweg=
ian
(any of them), Denish, Interlingua, Occidental and Esperanto (maybe not a
95% but a 70% or so).

I've found myself thinking in English or Swedish, and yes, I think differ=
ent
acording to the language I'm using and express thinks different.

-- Carlos Th