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Can you speak in any authentic language?
Of course it depends on what authentic is but I just can talk in English and Turkish (it's my native language btw). So you guys, do you know any authentic language or can you talk in? By the way, I'm trying to collect all the language video lessons in a website. (http://www.langvids.net) Just let me know, if you want to help me
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Permalink Reply by Erin McCarthy on -
Authentic means with a proper accent, perhaps?
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Permalink Reply by Lindsay O'Quinn on -
as oposed to an inauthentic language?
like ebonics or something?
I don't get it.
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Permalink Reply by Chloé FH McIntosh on -
word riley. ditto.
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Permalink Reply by Batu on -
well sorry for my bad English. i meant native languages which is about to be extinct.
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Permalink Reply by Fiona Pringle on -
Ah I see, for example Scotland's native language is gaelic, but next to no-one speaks nor understands it?
I am too ignorant to think of any more examples but the short answer is no, I don't. Our Scottish Government is trying to maintain the heritage which basically means Tuesday and Thursday BBC 2 television is oot (I'm trying). There is also a page of incomprehensible news at the back of our national paper on a Saturday...
Then there is Scots...which I don't know any of and NOBODY speaks but there is a Bible kicking around the library (you know the one library, the Scottish one) in Scots.
I'm blethering.
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Permalink Reply by Starshard0 on -
I speak Arabic, but that's not about to become extinct anytime soon.
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Permalink Reply by Mia A. on -
I speak fluent English and Tagalog (Filipino). I'm also studying French and Japanese. :) ..But all are not about to be extinct.. I think. :D
-Mia
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Permalink Reply by Erin McCarthy on
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Tagalog? My Filipino coworker tells me he won't teach it to his children. I would argue that it has the greatest chance of going extinct, given the number of fluent speakers as compare to the other languages you've mentioned.
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie on -
I speak fluent ASL. My best friend is deaf, and we've known each other since we were 3, so I just kind of learned it, haha. It's awesome, because not a lot of people speak it, and we can talk about whatever without having to worry about people "listening in".
I can speak a bit of spanish; enough to get by if I come across someone who doesn't speak any english.
I can speak a few phrases in Chinese, but that's just because my daughter watches Ni Hao Kai Lan. Does that count? =D
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