New Worlders: do you still speak the language(s) of your recent ancestors?

[Tooting Carmen]

This is essentially aimed at those who are second or third-generation immigrants.

[TheMaestro]

Our nation forgot to speak Africanese, unfrotunately.

[Tooting Carmen]

Our nation forgot to speak Africanese, unfrotunately.

:confused:

[Tenma de Pegasus]

My recent ancestors are Brazilians and I speak their language.

[Crn Volk]

Yes

[Tooting Carmen]

Anyone else?

[Latinus]

Nah. I have Italian ancestry, but my family never cared about it, since we're mixed with Portuguese and Old Stock.

But I want to learn it, it's beautiful, but first Spanish, since it's closer to Portuguese, and more internationally spread/proeminent, despite myself thinking it doesn't sound as beautiful as Portuguese (mainly BR) and Italian.

[Latinus]

Double post.

[Latinus]

My recent ancestors are Brazilians and I speak their language.

You're fully colonial/old stock?

[Tenma de Pegasus]

You're fully colonial/old stock?

Meu ancestral não brasileiro mais recente é o pai do meu tataravô.

[Smitty]

No one in my family has spoken a foreign language since my great-grandparents, not even their children to my knowledge. My German grandpa did call his mother "Mut," though.

[Tooting Carmen]

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[Andullero]

Yes on all counts.

[krystalsuns]

Yes. I studied German for 8 years as locally there is broad use of german derived words I dont hear in other regional vocab where I lived after I left my hometown. I've recently started exploring slavic languages as well.

[El_Jibaro]

My recent ancestors are Spaniards except for one colonial line (who also speak Castellano, being Caribeños, surprisingly) so of course I speak their language as its my native one :lmao

[Tooting Carmen]

My recent ancestors are Spaniards except for one colonial line (who also speak Castellano, being Caribeños, surprisingly) so of course I speak their language as its my native one :lmao

Do you still speak Gallego though?

[El_Jibaro]

Do you still speak Gallego though?

I do, my father taught me it from a young age :thumb001:

Nowadays not so much unfortunately, but when I go to visit family in Pontevedra province I do speak it. I've been teaching my son a bit too because I want to give him a piece of his heritage, not just the Catalan (which he speaks) side from his mom :lol:

[Tooting Carmen]

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[Celestia]

Nah. I have cousins who speak French though

[Tooting Carmen]

Nah. I have cousins who speak French though

Quelle peine que tu ne peux pas parler une langue si belle et universale comme le francais.

[Rædwald]

Obviously, English. The language of humans.

[Tooting Carmen]

Obviously, English. The language of humans.

:picard2:

[Rædwald]

:picard2:

Listen, I never claimed that other languages were not human. Just that English is one spoken by Humans. You're always so negative :rolleyes:

[Andullero]

Obviously, English. The language of humans.

Aren't you exactly half Frankish? :rolleyes:

[NSXD60]

Sou Aprés Sou D' Ciel

Ain million d'années
Avant qu' le Jésu-Crit,
Le méilleur du mone
Était pour tous sans prix.
Mais personne s'en pôrtait cas là
Au bleu éternel du ciel,
Et personne ermerciait pas là
Aine lune tout les nuits nouvelle. (Et en allant...)

Pennies From Heaven (Johnny Burke original)

A long time ago,
A million years BC,
The best things in life
Were absolutely free.
But no one appreciated
A sky that was always blue,
And no one congratulated
A moon that was always new. (And so forth...)

[bandoge]

My most recent non-brazilian ancestor is my grandfather who is portuguese, so yes but not exactly because of him.

[Rædwald]

Aren't you exactly half Frankish? :rolleyes:

According to Ancestry 1/10th, and 23andMe 1/5th but French & German get put together there so somewhere in that area.

[alnortedelsur]

My recent Venezuelan ancestors (father's side) spoke Spanish, and I speak Spanish.

My recent Spanish ancestors (mother's side) spoke Castilian-Spanish and Mallorquin (local Balearic variant of Catalan). I speak Castilian-Spanish, but not Mallorquin.

I got some distant Italian ancestry (my paternal great grand father was Italian), but I don't speak Italian.

[HannibaltheGreat]

Yes.