A. Do you speak more than one language? what do you speak?
I speak three languages, Japanese, English and Indonesia as my native language.
B. How did you learn? at home as a baby? at school?
English:
I didn't take any class or any other education for English subject. I'm a self taught. I learned English from TV, direct conversation with the native speakers and I think I remember my grandparents also taught me a little English when I was 7 years old.
Japanese:
Japanese is also the same I didn't take class nor study the language in college. I came to Japan 10 years ago and in less than 3 months I was able to speak Japanese daily conversation. And later I studied more on how to read and write Japanese character. Although I can only read about 500 kanjis but I'm still learning more everyday and using it in my daily activity.
C. If you learnt after childhood, how long did it take you to become fluent or reasonably fluent?
English I'm not really sure. I think I became more fluent after I used it as my daily language years ago before I learned Japanese.
And for my Japanese, I was able to speak Japanese fluently after living in Japan for 6 months.
I was raised by my grandparents and both speak more than 6 languages so I think inherited this ability from my grandparents.
I also took a TOEFL test 5 years ago because I wanted to study abroad and I got accepted in one of San Francisco art school but I had to turn down the offer because I couldn't leave my husband with his diabetes condition
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