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20.       lady in red
6947 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 08:16 pm

 

Quoting Saskia1970

 

 

 Honey, I´m not a native but I do notice you make very, very many mistakes.

 

Now that does actually surprise me!

21.       ReyhanL
1961 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 08:18 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 

 

Nifrtity - you said you could speak English like a native - what I said was that you would never be mistaken for a native English speaker.  I admire your aptitude for languages and congratulate you on your ability to speak so many languages but that doesn´t alter the fact that no-one English would mistake you for a native speaker.   I think it is a little arrogant of you to assume they would.

 

 She said she can speak like a native ..not write like one ...

22.       Saskia1970
70 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 08:24 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 

 

Now that does actually surprise me!

 

 Why?

23.       angel_of_death
686 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 08:40 pm

this actually reminded me of a part from pink panther the movie

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BFh90GTFOM

24.       lady in red
6947 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 08:48 pm

 

Quoting Saskia1970

 

 

 Why?

 

Because I thought you were a native speaker of course!

25.       lady in red
6947 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 08:49 pm

 

Quoting ReyhanL

 

 

 She said she can speak like a native ..not write like one ...

 

Roll eyes

26.       Saskia1970
70 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 08:59 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 

 

Because I thought you were a native speaker of course!

 

 Shall I make some mistakes to prove I´m not?

27.       lady in red
6947 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 09:04 pm

 

Quoting Saskia1970

 

 

 Shall I make some mistakes to prove I´m not?

 

Laugh at

28.       lady in red
6947 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 09:50 pm

 

Quoting angel_of_death

this actually reminded me of a part from pink panther the movie

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BFh90GTFOM

 

I like the one where Joey from Friends is trying to speak French - it is like the other side to the video you posted.  Unfortunately, I can´t seem to get the link - so Trudy is going to add it for me!  Thanks Trudy

29.       Trudy
7887 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 09:51 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 

 

I like the one where Joey from Friends is trying to speak French - it is like the other side to the video you posted.  Unfortunately, I can´t seem to get the link - so Trudy is going to add it for me!  Thanks Trudy

 

 Here it is:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqwzvtjeYBQ

 

I hope you can open it.

30.       vineyards
1954 posts
 16 Oct 2009 Fri 09:53 pm

Henry Piaget answers your question, he proposed that there is a special phase in a childs mental development where the brain accords itself to the wovel positions, fundamental syntactic rules and a set of other properties specific to one´s own native language. Once this language acquisition window is closed it may be virtually impossible for an individual to truely acquire a language. Bilingualism or trilingualism is possible in practice but in reality no matter how many languages one can speak, only one of them is his/her native language. It is generally accepted that the language that you do the calculations with is your native one.

 

Unless, you are giving up your identity or thinking of working as a spy in another country, don´t ever think of becoming a native speaker.  There are a lot more to add on top of the mastery one gains in the early years of life. These include local dialects, thinking patterns, accents, jargons and slang...

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