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[cavcstudios]

What language do you speak at home?

[cavcstudios]

Spanish.

[Rogerlz]

I speak chinese whith my parents and with my systers I speak spanish!!!!

I some times speak english in the office!!!
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[andykang]

Hi :Rogerlz , happy newyear!
Glad to meet you, I am new here!
may I be your friend?
I speak chinese which is my native language.
sometimes I speak english with my friends in office.
my english is poor especially in oral,but I want learn it well,
I understand it is important to master english. cloud you help me?
I am looking forward to hearing from your reply!

[Cristi]

I ALWAYS speak Spanish.

Actually, I avoid speaking English with all my forces. I speak it quite well because I've been in a bilingual school since second grade, but I think this: if I live in a country in which Spanish is the official language so I should always try to speak Spanish before using any other idiom, right?? For example, one day I was walking through a street and some people in a car stopped and asked me for directions, they spoke to me in Spanish and I could tell, for their accent, that they where from a country in which people speak English, so I just answered in Spanish... I could've said everything in English but I didn't want, they seemed to speak Spanish quite well so why should I use a foreign language in my own country?

It's a very important issue to manage more than one language, but if you are in your own country you should try to use your language before any other, because it's part of your identity, of your culture and that's something you should never forget.

Have a nice day all of you!

PS: Roger, how cool that you speak chinese with your parents! I bet your parents are chinese, am I right????
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[Rogerlz]

You right cristi, my parents are chinese!!! and is true what you say, my parents had a restaurant and some times the americans went to there and I always speak to them in spanish!!!

one time when I went to a beach in CR (tamarindo) I went to a restaurant with a friend and he looks like american and I'm chinese, so the waiter spoke to us in english, he knows to speak spanish but we speak to him in english!!! was funny that day!!!

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Hi andykang, happy new year to!!!!

Of corse you can be my friend!!! My english is not very good. As you I'm learning!!!

Nice to meat you!!!
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[Cristi]

[Oriani]

I SPEAK SPANISH

[chung729_1]

chinese
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[Rogerlz]

[Sarraa]

I've been living in the UK for quite a while now, most of my life actually, so naturally I speak quite a lot of English. But with some friends and family I speak both Arabic (because I am Arab) and English. I need to do more Arabic though.
In my own Arab country though, I obviously speak Arabic, but also English unfortunately has to come in at some point, because say, some waiters at places such as Italian, Chinese, or any non-Arab restaurants don't all know how to speak Arabic, so I find myself having to speak English a bit there.
I agree with Cristi, I believe it's best for a person to try sticking to their own mother-tongue, and only occasionally speak a second language if need be. So I need to let go of a bit of English.
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[andykang]

[Rogerlz]

[andykang]

Hello: Rogerlz , I am fine though there is a little busy in my work, I'm a
optimist man! You are right, there are much dialects in chinese, some of them I also understand difficultly. I speak mandarin.
I think you are born in CR , right? Have you been to chia?
I live in SUZHOU city of Jiangsu province , a very beautiful city ever,
there is a few change because of the development of industry, I prefer the natural beauty than artificial view.
I never go abroad , I think that CR is sure a very beautiful county!

Happy every day, andy good luck !

[Cristi]