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I am not sure this is what you want, but neither of my parents spoke English as children, although they were born here. Neither learned English until they went to school and were taught English by people who were not native English speakers themselves. The English I learned from them was correct, but not standard. I majored in English in college ( I teach it now) and it drove my professors crazy wondering why I did not speak or write in standard English, even though it was correct. It took us a few years to figure it out. Example : in standard English the sentence structure is Noun , Verb , Clause. In slavic languages that my parents spoke the clause came first. You can do this correctly in English with the proper punctuation, its just not standard sentence structure. By the way my parents insisted that we only speak English at home and never taught us their languages, they felt that it would hamper us in school the way it did for them. I think of that as a loss.

2007-02-03 04:41:43 · answer #1 · answered by fancyname 6 · 0 0

Huh?... sorry... but your question is not in English... or at least close enough to English that I can figure out what you are asking... can you please try again!

2007-02-03 10:13:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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