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Any couple that don't have the same first language?
I think I've heard Fiftyfootbride mention something about her fiance's German accent and her taking German 3.
I wish so badly I was bilingual. It would be awesome. When I was younger I did really well in French but stupidly gave it up. :(
My first language is French but I started learning English in the 4th grade. I don't think we would be together if it wasn't for me speaking English. Makes me sad thinking about it :( It was definitly interesting when the two family met
We are! I'm Polish and my husband is American. I keep trying to encourage him to learn the language, but it's a hard process :P
My fiance didn't speak a single word of French when we met. Now a year later he is totally conversationnal which is great for my french canadian family.
My FI is Dutch, born and raised in the Netherlands but moved to the US for school. I've only managed to learn a few survival words (wine, beer, toilet, chicken, beef)but I'm sure he would love it if one day I could at least get to a conversational level.
My first language is Portuguese, then English, then Spanish and I can read in French..my Fiance's first language is Spanish, then English.
We communicate in Spanglish! 
My FI is Danish and I am American...and we're currently living in Sweden. So I am in the process of learning Swedish and then adding Danish on later (he luckily can speak both if necessary) His English though is flawless...I actually didn't know that he wasn't American the first few times we spoke to one another. I REALLY want our kids to be bi- or tri-lingual and I need to know what they are saying to me :)
My fi is Hispanic. I'm American. He speaks Spanish and English..and learned a little German. I speak English..and Spanglish really really well ;)!
He left me with is grandmother who only speaks Spanish and I spent the entire time looking at her with a giant smile on my face nodding...like I totally have no idea what you are saying because my Spanish isn't that advance and you are speaking way to fast for me...when he finally came to save me..all she was telling me is how pretty I was! Which is bonita but when she said it, it sounds like monita..and I couldn't figure out for the life of me what she was talking about!
Every person that I met at my FSIL's wedding were all talking to me like I was retarded until I started talking to them. Hahaha!!
We!!! Well I am a Spanish speaker and Mr. Poodle is American, he's trying really hard to get better on Spanish, he said he need to get better so that way our future children won’t have to teach him, or make fun of his Spanish LOL
I first language is Cantonese and fiance's is English. It's prett awkward when he goes to my family gathering because my family's English skills aren't that great.
We're both trying to learn Spanish and we'd really like to raise our children to be bilingual. Living in NYC, being able to speak Spanish is starting to become a neccesity!
My first language is Russian but I started learning English in 4th grade so I'm totally fluent, (no accent). FH's first languages is English and Italian. we communicate in English but sometimes he bitches that when he's with my family we have a tendency to slip back into russian, (the older generation). I keep nudging him to learn some russian but so far no luck. I'm secretly learning Italian because it would make his Mom SO happy, (although she is fluent in english as well).
Our children will have a chance to be bilingual and it's such a gift. As you get older it's definitly harder to learn a language. I'm moving to LA once our visa gets approved and I'm thinking about updating my spanish.
Well, both of our first languages are English, but I'm a Spanish teacher, so I like to say I'm bilingual:)
FI's 1st language is Korean and mine is English. Alas, his English is very good, so we don't speak Korean as often as we should. It's probably 90% English and 10% Korean in our relationship. I go to a Korean class 3x a week and he goes to a conversation class on the weekend. His dad speaks a liiiiiiitle English - mum nothing. But his dad is taking basic English classes and my mum is teaching herself Korean....so hopefully one day the whole extended family may be bilingual!
FI's mother tongue is French, mine is English. We mostly speak French together or we just both speak our own language, which makes for funny conversations but it works for us. We are both bilingual and I'm working on learning Spanish and becoming trilingual!
Yep! Like thecolorteale said, my fiance is from Germany, so his first language is German, second French, and third English. He moved to the states when he was in high school. My first language is English. I was fluent in Spanish, but it has deteriorated a LOT. Now I'm close to being fluent in German. I just need to stop being nervous about saying things out loud. :)
FI's first language is Spanish, I haven't had any luck picking a lot up. Which is probably because he only speaks Spanish with his family. I can understand what they're talking about, but can't form a sentence of my own yet.
FI thinks it's rude to speak Spanish around me, and his mom is trying to get better with English, so I'm not exposed to it a whole lot. But like Mr. Poodle, I want to learn so that our children don't have to teach me and make fun of me!
I grew up speaking German & English. My mom & grandparents were all born in Germany. My FI only speaks english & "un petit peu" of french from school. lol I always giggle when he tries to speak french because he has a thick southern accent.
although we are both aussies, hubby family is greek and mine italian - i would love to now how to speak spanish though, its on my wishlist
My first language is Filipino, and fi's is Romanian! I bought all these Romanian language programs but haven't even opened them up yet! I would love to be able to talk to his grandma!
my fiance's first language is spanish, but he learned english when he moved to miami at 5 years old, so his english is perfect. his whole famly, however speaks spanish, so when i'm around then it's hard to chime into a lot of convos. i can speak a little spanish, but i find myself getting lost in serious convos. this doesn't bother me too much, because i love his fam, and they always bring the convo back to english after they notice me sitting there, haha. I'm hoping our children will be bilingual, and in that process my spanish will improve some more.
husband's first language is spanish, mine is english. he speaks perfect english. i would love to speak spanish fluently. we want to raise our kids bilingual. it will suck if i don't speak the language.
for those ladies that learned to speak their SO's first language so quickly, how did you do it?
My first language is Spanish, and fiance speaks English. He's been trying to learn Spanish to be able to talk with my family (my dad speaks no English, my mom speaks veeeeeery little English), and although he has learned some in the last few years, he's not by any means fluent. He and my mom can sorta understand each other, him with his broken Spanish and her with her broken English, but I have to serve as translator when he talks with my dad and almost everyone else in the family.
We're going to do a bilingual ceremony, since half our guests don't speak Spanish and the other half don't speak English, but I'm concerned about redundancy and repetition. Though I'm sure we'll work something out with our officiant... As for kids (if we ever have any), I'd most likely want to make sure they grow up bilingual.
My first language is English, his is French. We met in Japan, so sometimes we have little conversations in Japanese (mine is much better than his, though, so they don't last long) but mostly we just speak in English.
His English is so good, very fluent, and my French is SO bad (never took it in school or anything) that I am ashamed to say I can still, after 3 years, barely speak French. He is a French teacher, so he often doesn't feel motivated to teach me french after spending all day doing it. I need to just sign up for a damn class...
Now I am feeling guilty >.<
This isn't the case for me, but on of my BM's met a French Canadian and they ended up getting married! Her only language was English, and her FI's primary language was French (although his English is perfect).
@cinemagrrl - my friend ended up going to a language school full-time for 2 years. She lived in Quebec City, so there was lots of oppurtunity to practice. Her FI also tried to speak French with her at home, but sometimes she got "French overload" and just wanted to speak English at home. I was really proud of her for learning a new language. Now she is a fluent speaker and they are going to teach their new baby both French and English.
My first language is Spanish. And fiance is english. After a few years he undestands what people say in spanish but cant have a conversation. He is trying hard to learn.
I used to speak conversational Italian after studying abroad there but no longer :( FI took 6 years of French, but doesn't speak it ever so he's pretty much lost it too.
@ cinemagrrl: rosetta stone is a great program for learning basic language skills. luckily part of living in sweden for me is i get to take free, intensive classes because they want people to be able to speak the language. good luck!!
Technically yes. My first language was Greek, then Spanish, then English. I was born and raised in America though. He's studied Spanish for a few years and understands the language. I am trying to teach him Greek but I've had to take a time out while he learns Arabic. I've been bugging him to get me a Rosetta Stone for Arabic so we can learn together, hopefully he'll remember soon!
@ cinemagrrl: I learned with movies music and reading English books, that was enough for me to survive on my first trip to the USA after I met Mr. Poodle I was so devoted to communicate that I got into as many CD's as I could and watch everything without subtitles LOL, the Mr. is trying the Rosetta Stone ;)
Well, we're both Americans, but FI is first generation here, and although he speaks English fluently, I would guess that he learned Tamil (south Indian language) first... his parents are fluent, but the rest of his family back home in Malaysia have mixed English -- older generation has very little (if any), younger generation is essentially fluent but very shy to talk to me!
I have picked up basic phrases in Tamil, and would love to really learn it but I have no clue how to start. I'm at the point now where I can get the gist of what people are saying, but I suck at pronunciation and remembering what form to use (for example, the phrases "food" "go eat something" "are you hungry?" and "I am hungry" differ by like one syllable at the end of a word, I can't keep it straight!). I hope our kids will be at least minimally billingual, although I will be upset if my hubbie and kids have a secret code to use against me!
So for all of you who don't have the same first language, are either partner trying to learn the other language? I've been trying and trying but lifes been quite busy with graduating, moving, wedding planning, new job, it really went on hold this past year and I'm just at a point where I can understand a bit and read a bit but I'm not confident in pronunciation or grammer or anything that would enable me to hold a conversation. Just keep at it but it's such a long process!
We are bilingual and live in two languages. We live in Seville, Spain so as you can imagine we are surrounded by Spanish. At home we speak both Spanish and English because my FI is Spanish, but speaks English nearly perfectly. Our kids will speak both languages for sure!
@bviq my FI and I met in Spain and during my past 5 years and 5 months here I have learnt the language and he also has learned English!
My fiance is Polish and his first language is Polish. He taught himself English by going to the movies when he came to the US. His parents will be here in 3 weeks to stay with us for 2.5 months...um they don't speak English and I only know a few words of Polish. But I went to Poland to meet them and I know we will have a great time even if we can't speak with each other.
my first language is portuguese and then english, my fiance is all english but doing his best to learn what he likes to call wopinese... cause all wop languages sound the same to him!
My first language is Swedish though I am fluent in English and have a British accent. My fiancee is Canadian/British (British parents, born and raised in Canada) and we live in the UK. We speak English to each other. I am trying to encourage him to learn Swedish before we have kids, though it is a slow process. My 7 year old niece was nice enough to say that "if he learns Swedish then I have to learn English too as it's only fair" (so sweet!). He does understand the jinks of the conversation most of the time though and is so understanding and patient with my family so hopefully it will get easier for him in time as well.
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