Do you think it's easier to learn English first then a second language? Or second language then English? Or maybe both as you're growing up but one as dominant? How would you like to have been brought up? My first language is English yet I grew up hearing and speaking Cantonese; I don't really have any complaints but I wish I knew how to write Chinese and speak Mandarin as well. I have a friend who can speak pretty great English who grew up in Singapore and can speak Mandarin and Cantonese + write traditional/simplified Chinese who wishes she learned English first as her native language.
I can speak Canto and english ^^ But dunno how to read or write in Canto tho... Only like really simple stuff -blush But yeahh...find it pretty easy to speak CHINGLISH!! Yeahhhh -bigclap
eng is easier to learn than chinese i think... if i wasn't chinese i don't think i can ever learn to read or wirte chinese... it's too complicated...
well i grow up in aruba speak canto when i'm at home but cant read or write learned spanish dutch and english at school speak papiamento to local ppl in aruba learned bit mando from friends i think it would be really nice to read or write chinese coz i like tvb stuf and chinese movies and i learned chinglish from speaking with my cousins here in UK best language u can get mate
im a TRI-LINGUAL hahahaha i learned vietnamese, then french, then english. in my case, learning them in that order is the most efficient. reason? you can learn english after french, but you cannot learn french after english... you can.. but its extremely hard, given the fact that you already developed the english tongue... from french you can learn english very easily. and since vietnamese is harder than french, learning languages from the hardest to the easiest is the most efficient way to go.
No, learning the more complicated language (in my case, Cantonese) is easier as English is the relatively "easier" language, with alphbet and all. But I guess for people who is fluent in other romanic language AND English, it doesn't really matter. To me, I would say I wish to learn Cantonese (or Mandarin, either Chinese) and French when I was growing up, just because neither of them quite has rules but it's a sheer matter of association (too many exceptions in French's case make it difficult to master once you grew up) then English. I may have an accent, but English is one of the easier ones to be grammatically correct. @dann: so true, I wish my parent moved to MTL instead so that I can learn French intensely... Now I am suffering TT_TTb
Yeh...Learing French after English is pretty hard... I learnt French for 5 years... Now I forgotten like most of it But I can stil remember the basics ^^
lol not only that, in order to learn a language and not forget it, in psychology, you must learn a language before the 100 something develops.... i forgot lol but basically, as a child you have a faster understanding of languages because there are a 100 something in your mind that are undeveloped, and it develops into the languages you speak.... confusing, but its psychology lol hiake, you couldve went to a french schools lol send your kids to a french school hehehehe theres one beside buttonville PS at 16 and woodbine lol that was mine
My first language was Cantonese... That's what my parents conversed to me in. Mandarin second language, together with Malay. English comes last. Now, it seems my English is better than other languages... -lol How ironic.
i grew up learning dutch.. but when i was around 8 i started watching english cartoon and so on.. so thatswhy my english is above average.. english aint that hard... prolly i only got some grammar probs since i never get corrected by people
lol... i had alot of diff languages.. but never use them so kinda forget them german,french,mando only 3 language i still use is dutch,canto,english
i think since eng is an easier language, you should grow up speaking chinese first eng is not tonal language so if you speak that first, youll find it hard to produce the proper pin yum. but learn chinese first and english comes easy i grew up speaking canto, then learnt english, my english is pretty much perfect and my canto is fluent
it is much easier learning chinese/japanese/korean first, followed by English. the only thing that might be hard if you do it this way is adjusting to the grammar
I learned cantonese first, then english, then mandarin. I think cantonese is one of the most difficult languages to learn if one did not learn it from birth and living in HK/china. The slang would be the most difficult part as it comes in trends and changes gradually.
my first language was cantonese... but then i started going to pre-school and my grandpa stopped living with us and moved away, so i didnt have anyone to talk with and i ended up forgetting the language. Now i just speak english and a little bit of Canto that iv picked up from music/movies/ and conversations with my chink relatives.
My second language is english...i started speaking canto when i was 3...so i had problems speaking english till i was in grade 4....but i think its better for me to know chiense first and then english... cuz i can speak fluently in it and also speak fluently in chinese....
english was the easiest. i'd say cantonese was harder since no one really speaks it with me. and the classes back then were really stupid cause no one really learned anything
