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For non-native English Speakers
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When I think, my brain processes it as English. When I speak most of the time, it is English. I do speak in my native tongue at home though, because I am forced. I can speak it fluently, without a doubt. Just last week, a cousin from Vietnam asked me how I was doing and a bunch of crap in Vietnamese over the internet. To her surprise, I could type in Vietnamese without any accent marks and could still read and understand the language.

All of my friends here in my town are Americans, so I'm used to speaking English more than I do with my native language. At home, if I speak English at my parents, I get yelled at. My family also speaks Vietnamese fluently, and their English is .. well enough that they can communicate. Whenever it came to paper-work or anything, sometimes, my dad gives it to me since I know English a lot better than he does.

I used to be able to speak French a bit too, but I forgot all of it now.

To be rather specific, I lived in my native country since I was born, then I moved to the US at the age of (1998). I participated in school asap after moving to the United States, with no knowledge of the English language. I slowly picked it up as I heard people speak, I think my first word was "Monkey", because someone was pissing me off, so I called him that.
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For non-native English Speakers - by Fiel - 2010-03-24, 11:11 AM
For non-native English Speakers - by Rob - 2010-03-24, 11:31 AM
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