#heritage speaker

[zyrafowe-sny]

Fun fact: When I am tired/sick/having any amount of trouble with words, "walizka" comes to me way faster than "suitcase" even though I mostly think and speak in English.

[misespinas]

My grandfather immigrated from France to America, my father's a heritage French speaker. His first language was French, he almost exclusively spoke French at home, and he lived in a French immigrant neighborhood as a child

Then he married my mother, moved out, and had children. His father moved to a different state, my father then lived in a neighborhood where there were zero French speaking people. He stopped practicing French and nearly thirty years later (today) he now struggles to speak French

None of my siblings, including me, speak French. It was just not what we did in our house, though my mom spoke French as well. There has been a noticable language barrier at times with my grandfather

I now date a heritage Spanish speaker who has lived in neighborhoods where people spoke Spanish, gone to schools where people also know Spanish, etc. At times I wonder if we were to get married and have children, would his parents have a similar barrier with their grandchildren that I have with my grandfather?

I almost feel guilty when I think about it, but it is incredibly irrational. I just wonder if this is a shared experience for anyone else who dates someone from a different culture

[sternenbeleuchtet]

i need to learn brazilian portuguese asap

[prekladatelsky-orisek]

Esperanto writing practice 1

Source for question: https://relearnalanguage.com/language-exchange-topics-vocabulary-builders/

How do you define a “heritage speaker”? What are the limits of what a heritage speaker is or isn’t?

Kiel vi definas "heredparolanto*"? Kiaj estas la limoj de kiu estas aŭ ne estas "heredparolanto"?

Laŭ mi, heredparolanto referas al personoj, kiuj komencis akiri denaskan lingvon en la infaneco, sed kiuj poste parte forgesis la lingvon (sed ne tute) pro manko da uzo, aŭ kiuj neniam komplete akiris la lingvon. Heredparolantoj normale parolas alian lingvon krom la heredlingvo, kaj la alia estas la plej uzata en ilia sociala medio.

Mi pensas, ke homoj, kiuj neniam parolis nek komprenis lingvon, ne povas esti heredparolantoj de ĝi. Mi pensas, ke devas esti ankaŭ vorto por homoj, kies prauloj parolis lingvon, sed kies lingvo estis forprenita de ili. Estas konfuze, ke "heredo" referas al la familia historio de personoj, sed al la lingva estanteco de la homo. Sed lingvaj, kiuj rilatas al la pasinteco eble devus esti nomitaj "kulturaj lingvoj" aŭ tiuspeca nomo, por diferencigi inter parolantaj kaj neniamparolantaj. Ankaŭ heredkomprenantoj estus bona vorto por tiuj, kiuj ne parolas heredan lingvon kvankam ili komprenas ĝin.

Ekzemple, mi estas "heritage speaker" de la ĉeĥa: mi parolas ĝin ekde mi estis infano, kaj ĉiam parolis kaj ĝin kaj la anglan kun mia familio. Tamen mi loĝas en Usono, kaj post mia frua infaneco mi iris al angleparolanta lernejo. Tuj post mi aliris la lernejon, mi komencis paroli pli en la angla ol en la ĉeĥa. Nun, post multaj jaroj, mi parolas la ĉeĥan, sed kun neoftaj (mi esperas) eraroj en mia gramatiko -- do, ne kiel denaskulo, tamen ankaŭ ne kiel lernanto. Mi ne estas "heritage speaker" de la hispana nek la germana, kvankam mi jam multajn jarojn lernas ilin -- mi ne akiris ilin dum mia infaneco, kaj neniam denaske komprenis ilian gramatikon. Mi ankaŭ ne estas "heritage speaker" de la jidan, kvankam miaj praprageavoj parolis ĝin: laŭ mi, "heritage speaker" referas al iu, kiu iam parolis la "heritage" lingvon, ne al iu, kiu descends(??) de personoj, kiuj ĝin parolis.

*I came up with this term on my own, however the Esperanto term for a heritage language is hereda lingvo

[nihongoseito]

something that i haven't seen discussed as much as some other stages of L2 learning is the stage when you understand much more than you can produce, but you can still produce quite a lot so people are surprised when you get flustered or forget stuff. i was on a work meeting for my nonprofit and the two japanese ladies who are kinda like my bosses on our committee did the whole meeting in japanese and the whole time i was nodding along, feeling that they were talking fast but not unclearly, missing a couple words but getting the spirit if not the letter of everything that was being said--and then they're like, sasha, anything to add? and despite having heard and understood everything they've said for the past half hour you forget how they said it and how you can replicate it. so you just end up saying nope, i agree with everything! because i forgot what the word for "registration fee" is even though you just said it!! 🤡🤡

[rotzaprachim]

anyway the construct of the US as a monolingual anglophone nation is on multiple levels a white supremacist construct long before it is a reality

[ruhua-langblr]

Chinese Q

[mokeymokey]

Been thinking a lot about the hegemony of the English language and untangling my vague discomforts about it. Like analogizing it in my mind with hegemonic languages of various historical empires and processing it in that way. We are the babylonians of our time and we can't help it really can we? We are the new babylonians the new romans etc

[astertiae]

Ykno what? I like you! Hands you a edo phoenix heritage language fic snippet

[mystacoceti]

I'm finding that foreign language teachers at community colleges are often that type of person who picks up some basic skills in like 10 languages but maybe only has two they actually pursue. do you know the type I'm talking about? Like the langblr people who are at level 10 on a dozen or so duolingo courses but it doesn't mean they can speak

[justseveralowls]

Mi lengua no es exótica

Mi lengua no es extraña

Mi lengua no es fuera de lugar

Mi lengua no es erótica

Mi lengua es una parte de mi identidad

Mi lengua es una parte de mi cultura

Mi lengua es una parte de mi historia

Mi lengua es una parte de mi familia

Mi lengua es digna de respeto

Translation:

My language is not exotic

My language is not weird

My language is not out of place

My language is not erotic or sexy

My language is a part of my identity

My language is part of my culture

My language is part of my history

My language is part of my family

My language is worthy of respect

[zscribez]

found a series of videos on yt basically retelling journey to the west at a children's level and im pleasantly surprised at how much mandarin i was able to retain and understand

still not really fluent but i was able to get by and the animation was pretty engaging

feeling hopeful that i am able to improve my mandarin

[sternenbeleuchtet]

heritage speakers, what kind of accent do you have in your heritage language

[jojo-heritage-posts]

DOES ANYONE HAVE THE. thw hol horse i cant go for that no can do posr. i cant descrive jt any furhter i just know it s a video maybe boingo is the re ?

[hideyseek]

fascinated once again by the fact that i knew how to say 黑帮 heibang ("reactionary gang, cabal") but had to encounter 误会 wuhui like forty times across multiple shows to learn how to say "misunderstanding"

[wool-string]

We are claiming Kei and Kou for Hispanic Heritage month

Also thank you @zerogalahard for that Kei and Kou in Mexico au. I couldn’t stop thinking about it so I had to draw them in traditional clothes 😭