Alycia CP #2
Date/Time: May 20, 2018 12pm - 2pm
My second conversation partner is Nadine. She is from Germany and is getting her degree in Exercise Physiology. Her and I went to the gym to workout together and chat. Nadine started learning English when she was young because her dad had a job that required her family to move to Japan for several years. Up until that point she had only spoken German and she still only used German at home. Because she has been studying English for so long, one thing that I really wanted to know was how she felt when she first started learning English and how she feels about it now. One thing that she said was that she now think predominantly in English. She also mentioned that she takes a short bit of time to get back into speaking German when she visits her family, then has a hard time with the transition back. Although German is her first language, she really only uses it regularly to speak with her parents, which comes out as more of a Genglish (for all three of them). Now that she is using English as her primary language, she has developed a more accurate automaticity and even finds herself dreaming and thinking in English more often than German.
Location: Planet Fitness
Topic discussed: Learning Languages
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partner learned:My second conversation partner is Nadine. She is from Germany and is getting her degree in Exercise Physiology. Her and I went to the gym to workout together and chat. Nadine started learning English when she was young because her dad had a job that required her family to move to Japan for several years. Up until that point she had only spoken German and she still only used German at home. Because she has been studying English for so long, one thing that I really wanted to know was how she felt when she first started learning English and how she feels about it now. One thing that she said was that she now think predominantly in English. She also mentioned that she takes a short bit of time to get back into speaking German when she visits her family, then has a hard time with the transition back. Although German is her first language, she really only uses it regularly to speak with her parents, which comes out as more of a Genglish (for all three of them). Now that she is using English as her primary language, she has developed a more accurate automaticity and even finds herself dreaming and thinking in English more often than German.
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