Re: what is it?

On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:41:52 +0200, "lastfuture (Peter Marquardt)"
<las...@lastfuture.de> wrote:

> wow you seem to be a language genius..

A little bit :) Languages fascinate me and I see to have a knack for
picking up bits and pieces of languages fairly easily, and remembering
them.

> i wonder where you know all those things from,

Just picked them up here and there. Read something somewhere, or heard
it from someone, or just noticed a correspondence.

> how old you are,

27

> what your native nationality is

Not sure what you mean by that... I was born in Germany but have a
British passport. So you could say I'm a native German but that's not
the country whose citizenship I hold -- even though I've never lived in
England.

> and where you currently live...

Germany. In the north, to be precise. My idiolect is fairly close to
standard German, but is influenced a little by north-German-isms such as
pronouncing "g" like "ch" ("Flugzeug" --> "Fluchzeug"; "Weg" -->
"Weech"; "weg" --> "wech") and by some expressions from Plattdeutsch.

> that might give us all some more insights.

Don't know, but perhaps :)

I grew up speaking English first and then started learning German when I
was about three or four and started playing with other children. (At
that point, my German mother switched from speaking English to me to
German; my father continued speaking in English to me.) I went to an
international school where I was educated through the English languge,
so I grew up bilingually until I left school.

I later learned French (at school) and Greek (by living there for two
years), and also some Japanese (from evening school, but since it was
only once a week, it wasn't as much as the other two languages). All of
the rest I taught myself, so I don't know enough of other languages to
be able to hold a real conversation in them.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <nos...@gmx.li>
That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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