>>>Mine. Eleven years of scool and I have problems to count up to ten in russian.
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>>Dunno - Is Russian important to you ?
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>no. but all the wasted time!
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>>But you were taught German at school, I suppose
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>Shurely. But we have a dialect that uses shifted vocals (we speak german o for a, u for o [so I had not to much problem with the dutch oe concept ::)] e for ei) and do other funny things with the language. This is superimposed by the saxon style of weakend consonants (no clear distinction between b and p, g an k, d and t). Hard times in school
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>My parents uses High German by default, but at the playground or on the nursery school the dialect was mandatory. So, unintended by my parents, I grow up multilingual.
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>>Cannot say that your English is terrible though
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>(._.);
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I will jump in and say your English is awesome. You hiccup once in a while but that is more charming than anything else. There are others here as well who speak English as a second or Nth language and speak it better than most natives. My hat is off to all of you.