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A new round? Yay.
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Silenia, are you really only 15? I could have sworn you were older. XP <3
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I am only fifteen years old and a non-native speaker.
But people guess me older often and tend to think English is my native tongue. It's pretty funny. How old would you've guessed me? |
Gosh, at least 18... XP
You're well-spoken for being a teenager. :D I appreciate that. XD |
Thank you. I try to speak well.
The only problem is that, even though English is only my second language, I now tend to think in it sometimes. Which can be confusing if you are talking Dutch at that moment. xD |
hahaha. I can imagine! Do you speak a lot of English normally? Or do you speak (or write really) most of your English online?
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It depends a bit. I tend to write online mainly in English though I visit some Dutch forums and sites as well. I read most books in Dutch - at the other hand, I read a lot in English as well. I just read much
During our english class we speak English. I usually listen to songs in Dutch, German, French and English. Most computergames I play are in English - I tend to think a lot in English but much in Dutch as well. I regulary speak English even if those around me are Dutch, but most of the time I just speak Dutch. I write poems and stories in both English as well as Dutch. |
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Dang.... Smarty. I'm taught in America, where the people there aren't as smart as the people in other contries unfortunately for me.... Sigh, I wish I was raised in Asia.... Then I would know chinese and English both fluently....
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Why aren't people in America as smart as people in other countries? :/
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I think people in the USA are as smart as people in any other country - it's just that because the native tongue is English, many people only know one language.
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Well, If you compare them to the kids in China, Americans are introduced to a foreign language during 8th grade (ish) and will not be fluent in it usually. Chinese kids learn English during... 3rd grade (ish) and up, and usually are quiet fluent....
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@ Sizzla ~ I love your blobs! <3333
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That has something to do with the school-system, not the intellegence.
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Eh, but when you get higher up in the school, the kids in america are not set up to compete in the international world with kids from other countries...
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Which is because of certain... influences and the culture some of them live in, not their brains.
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But if they are not nurtured, they will not have the capabilities to have that higher level of knowledge later on in life. The influences help develop the brains to their full potential.
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Hatake: Which is in some ways true.
But that has, like I said, nothing to do with the way (as in, smart or dumb) - or the place - they were born. It's the culture, the nurture. |
XD. This is fun.
But the culture/ nature is PART of where they were born! That is what makes one region different than the other! ... *gnaws on thread* |
Yes and no. Culture is partially bound to the place where someone lives and/or is born.
But if someone is born in the USA and moves towards, let's say, China or Japan before they even started on school, they'll probably learn just as much as the others who live there. Even though they were born in the USA. Culture is part of the region, sure, but it's not the place where they were born that matters, but the place they were raised. Another example. An American couple is on a holiday in Asia. The woman is pregnant and gives birth to their son or daughter in Japan. After the holiday they travel back to the USA. Will the child be smarter then the other kids around him, because he was born in Asia? No - even though he might be born in Japan, he is raised in the USA and grows up in that culture. |
'Kay. I admit defeat. *kowtows*
*sleeps* Dang, tennis is tiring. :drool: be back later maybe.... or this sentence could be a lie waiting to happen.... Hmmmm. |
Yay. I win another debate. xD
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