It's sad when parents dont teach their kids the language from the country they were from. amirite?

Luckily I'm closer to bilingual than my parents.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

WWE sucks ass

by Anonymous 14 years ago

My friend wants tocmove to america, and she says her kids wont speak welsh :(

by Anonymous 14 years ago

My aunt is from Honduras, she said she never taught her kids Spanish because she didn't want them to grow up with accents.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I lived in Germany for the first 4 years of my life and yet can't speak German.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

My grandparents were Italian, but there such a push to Americanize, learn English, and not be looked down upon for being an immigrant that they lost most of what they knew.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

not really cuz some kids at my school whose parents did that have a strong accent even though they were born here

by Anonymous 14 years ago

My parents are Brazilian and i grew up in Canada, and they always only spoke to me in Portuguese (national language of Brazil), and now i am fully bilingual and have no accent in either language. You don't have an accent if you learn something early on and if you learn with people who dont have accents (in my case canadian friends)

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i know there are some people w/o accents but some poor kids at my school do and i think they'd rather not i'm half dutch half italian i wish i could speak both but i can only speak english but at the same time i'm glad i dont cuz i might have had an accent like my parents do

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Why should it matter? as long as they speak the language of the country they live in, I don't see why it's a big deal.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Dude, seriously. I have 22 cousins in Japan (20 of them adopted, my aunt and uncle are missionaries) and none of them can speak Japanese.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I don't see why it matters. My parents didn't "teach" me their native languages because they're not fond of their home countries, nor the people who reside there (and I can see why - that's why they left) and wanted me to "fit in" in the States - but I learned their languages through hearing them speak and learned English at school. Different people do things for different reasons. You can't make a blanket generalization like your post. In the end - who cares? Why does it matter how other people choose to raise their children? Get over your above-it-all "enlightened" arrogant self and get out in the real world for once.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Jeez, why so aggressive?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

If that were true I'd have to learn German (which I'm learning in school anyways), French, Irish, some sort of Native American language, Czech and various others. So, no.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i think i wanna learn every language possible. my parents are from iraq so they know assyrian and arabic and when they came here as refugees, they learned english. sure you have an accent but accents are cool :)

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The problem with that is you have so many kids now that are from so many different nationalities, that to learn the language of every country your ancestors came from would be ridiculous.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

great. I learn canadian and british. Sounds tough, eh?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I know it's totally unreasonable, but I get a little bit annoyed that my parents are both english. Especially when I'm with my two best friends, one is from Thailand and the other has parents from Hong Kong.

by Anonymous 14 years ago