Learning languages as an adult is HARD, i'm really impressed at your efforts!
I speak English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese. We're a bit of a cultural hotpot here so children get taught in multiple languages growing up and everyday conversation is a mix as well. There are vernacular schools (Chinese/Tamil) which I attended as a kid, so my primary education was mainly taught in Mandarin.. I got attached to English at a young age though, probably because most of the media I consumed (books, tv, film..) was in that. As a result I increasingly shunned every other language :\ so my Mandarin skills are now well dodgy, with verrry basic reading/writing. There's a lot of guilt over that haha but at least I know enough to get by! There's also a LOT of different chinese dialects which I've neglected to learn. My parents speak Fuchow/Cantonese/Hainan -- I can sorrrrta understand little phrases but am clueless about them otherwise.
I had a brief foray into French via duolingo a few years ago lol. That and Welsh are languages I'd love to learn someday! I did once consider picking up Latin during medical school too, because so many medical terms are basically just that (I think some med schools in the UK do have basic latin classes?)
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I speak English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese. We're a bit of a cultural hotpot here so children get taught in multiple languages growing up and everyday conversation is a mix as well. There are vernacular schools (Chinese/Tamil) which I attended as a kid, so my primary education was mainly taught in Mandarin.. I got attached to English at a young age though, probably because most of the media I consumed (books, tv, film..) was in that. As a result I increasingly shunned every other language :\ so my Mandarin skills are now well dodgy, with verrry basic reading/writing. There's a lot of guilt over that haha but at least I know enough to get by!
There's also a LOT of different chinese dialects which I've neglected to learn. My parents speak Fuchow/Cantonese/Hainan -- I can sorrrrta understand little phrases but am clueless about them otherwise.
I had a brief foray into French via duolingo a few years ago lol. That and Welsh are languages I'd love to learn someday! I did once consider picking up Latin during medical school too, because so many medical terms are basically just that (I think some med schools in the UK do have basic latin classes?)