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Do your parents speak different native languages? If so, what do they speak in common? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 4 days ago by may_be@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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American, my family only speaks English, but my teacher was talking about India's 22 official languages and how they vary by region. He also talked about English kind of uniting them and being the common language for communication and how this couple had a man and a woman from different regions who both spoke English.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My mother is Norwegian and my father is German. I grew up in Germany. When we were young my mother would speak Norwegian with us. But she stopped when we had friends over because it seemed rude to her. Eventually she stopped entirely.

I wish I had kept it up. Although apparently it wouldn't have done us much good in most of Norway. When my father had some Norwegian business partners over he wanted to impress them with his Norwegian. They didn't understand a word because he learned it from my mother who apparently has a very thick accent.