Help with my Linguistics project!
In my eternal quest to become smarter without actually attending school, I've started doing independent studies of non-credit bearing university classes. I'm doing Intro to Linguistics currently and it's awesome! I can learn the material on my own time, nobody gives me a grade or sets arbitrary deadlines for me except for me...I know some people are into that sort of thing, but I learn better this way. ;-)
For my first assignment, I need to gather some data about native speakers of different languages. It's mainly just as a starting point for me to begin researching these languages; I'm not trying to draw any conclusions about a particular sample group or anything like that. I might make a blog post about the research as part of chronicling my adventures in DIY education, but I would not be trying to publish this or get academic credit or anything like that and I would have no reason to identify anyone's specific information. So if you want to participate, awesome; if not, no big deal. :)
Here are the questions for you to answer, if you'd like to participate. I have adapted them from the original assignment, which excluded speakers of certain languages and just wasn't as interesting as the assignment I've given myself. ;-)
What is your native language (or languages if you grew up multilingual)?
In what country/ies did you grow up speaking this language?
In what other language(s) are you fluent?
What other language(s) have you studied (but not to the point of fluency) and what is your level of competency in the other language(s)?
At what age did you begin learning the other language(s)?
In what country, and in what setting, did you learn/study the other language(s)?
If you could magically learn to speak any language RIGHT NOW, what language would you choose?
What is your age?
For my first assignment, I need to gather some data about native speakers of different languages. It's mainly just as a starting point for me to begin researching these languages; I'm not trying to draw any conclusions about a particular sample group or anything like that. I might make a blog post about the research as part of chronicling my adventures in DIY education, but I would not be trying to publish this or get academic credit or anything like that and I would have no reason to identify anyone's specific information. So if you want to participate, awesome; if not, no big deal. :)
Here are the questions for you to answer, if you'd like to participate. I have adapted them from the original assignment, which excluded speakers of certain languages and just wasn't as interesting as the assignment I've given myself. ;-)
What is your native language (or languages if you grew up multilingual)?
In what country/ies did you grow up speaking this language?
In what other language(s) are you fluent?
What other language(s) have you studied (but not to the point of fluency) and what is your level of competency in the other language(s)?
At what age did you begin learning the other language(s)?
In what country, and in what setting, did you learn/study the other language(s)?
If you could magically learn to speak any language RIGHT NOW, what language would you choose?
What is your age?