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Posted by Sadie from D006170.N1.Vanderbilt.Edu (129.59.6.170) on Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 1:28PM :

In Reply to: Re: Ei kestä, kuinka voit? posted by Sadie from D006170.N1.Vanderbilt.Edu (129.59.6.170) on Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 1:11PM :

Dispite my lack of education in specific Finnish words, I can DEFINITELY tell when someone has a Finnish accent & I KNOW enough about Finnish words to tell the difference between Finnish words & other languages' words. I don't know how I learned that without learning the language... perhaps my mother somehow taught it to me when I was a child.

You know, what's even more weird is that my 1st language was Chinese (Mandarin), thanks to one of my babysitters, but I can't remember a single word of it now. Apparently, when I was little, my parents would take me to Chinese restaurants & I would converse with the Chinese waiters, & when my parents would ask me what I wanted to eat at home, I would respond in Chinese... forcing my mother to call the babysitter & ask her to speak with me on the phone so that the babysitter could translate what I was saying for my mother. Kinda funny, isn't it?

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Nin hao ma? Hope you're not kidding me ... - andreas 2:58PM 01/19/2003 () (8)

Re: Nin hao ma? Hope you're not kidding me ... - Sadie 3:18PM 01/19/2003 () (7)
- Re: Nin hao ma? Hope you're not kidding me ... - andreas 3:46PM 01/19/2003 () (6)
  - Re: Nin hao ma? Hope you're not kidding me ... - Sadie 5:08PM 01/19/2003 () (5)
    - clarification - Sadie 5:40PM 01/19/2003 () (4)
      - Yes. I read in Russian - andreas 6:15PM 01/19/2003 () (3)
        
        Re: Yes. I read in Russian - Sadie 6:39PM 01/19/2003 () (2)
        
        No, just for fun... - andreas 7:32PM 01/19/2003 () (0)
        
        OR - Sadie 6:54PM 01/19/2003 () (0)

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