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

At 08:42 PM 10/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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 knowledge?
>Sally
My native language is English. My Mom is from Berlin, and I spent part of
my childhood in Berlin, so I can speak Berliner dialect fairly fluently.
[Berlinerisch doesn't make the distinction between accusative and dative
pronouns like Hochdeutsch does.] My father's native language is Spanish,
and I took four years of Spanish in school, but it will still take me ten
minutes to put a sentence together. But, my reading knowledge of it is
better. I also took two years of Welsh in school, mostly so I could read
the Mabinogi. I can't say I remember how to speak it, though, except maybe
"Good morning" [Bore da] and "Thank you" [diolch].
But I still have my reference books!


Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
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