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I learned American Sign Language when I was 18 and fell in love with it. I was lucky enough to make a couple of friends who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing who have taught me ASL the way people who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing use it.

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I grew up speaking both English and Spanish, but I primarily spoke Spanish until I started preschool. When I was 6 years old my parents enrolled me in an Argentinian Spanish school that met every Saturday 9-3. Because the school was taught only by teachers from Argentina, I learned "castellano" and my accent sounded different from a lot of my friends. In high school, I took Spanish classes taught mainly by Mexican teachers and a lot of the words or dialects were different so it took me a while to adjust. Now I can switch back and forth between different accents depending on who I am speaking to.

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I grew up speaking English. In middle and high school my group of friends were Mexican and Cambodian so I learned a few words but I never really tried learning a language until high school when I took Spanish for all four years. Then, while at community college I took a semester of French and ASL.

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My experience was learning Tagalog at home with my family, mainly with my parents. They figured I’d eventually learn English at school, so Tagalog was spoken at home. I’ve also taken ASL for two semesters in community college.

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- Mandarin is first language, so very comfortable to speak with especially in casual settings
- English is more for academic settings, such as reading academic papers or in school doing presentation
- Japanese is more for like a hobby (I like anime) and my major is Japanese, so I am able to understand/use some
- German is learned in high school, only able to distinguish it (know it’s German if someone is using it)

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Learned from home
learned English at school

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I can speak three types of languages, mandarin, English, and regional native language. I start most of my language learning with vocab studying. Especially when I was learning English, before I came to the U.S. the best I can do is just to read with English but not speak or listen. I feel like the language environment does a great deal in language learning.

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-learned English at community college, grew up speaking Japanese
-learned Spanish in middle school, high school, community college; not yet fluent
-learned ASL with friend, took ASL classes at community college, has had the opportunity to practice ASL with the deaf community. Practiced Japanese with language learning apps.

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Born in England and had a British accent until I was 6, lost the accent when I moved to the South

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- standard english (American education )
- British-english ( taught as subject class)
- cantonese ( native speaker)
- mandarin (taught as subject class)
- mexican spanish (native speaker)
- standard Spanish (American middle school/hs education )

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Californian (Valley girl) growing up in SoCal
East coast words or Colorado/Midwest specific words from family
Japanese via Buddhism since a young age and then in college and then more in depth in Japan; Kansai-ben and Tsuwano-ben
Spanish via part-time work and HS
ASL via family as a first language; specfically for infant stage of development
Spanish from Mexico, dual immersion of a different variety in formal elementary education
ASL in HS as a world language
Spanish from HS (8 years appx) Colorado vs California; Academic-focused
Spain vs Cuba; special forms of Spanish (‘proper’ vs ‘improper’ Spanish)

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Vince
1. English (community & traditional schooling)
2. Japanese (self-study, alternative schooling)
3. Filipino (self-study, home)
4. Spanish (traditional schooling)
5. ASL (traditional schooling)

Kida
1. Ebonics (community & home)
2. American English (community & traditional schooling)
3. Spanish (traditional schooling)
4. French (home)

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- Speaks English + Spanish at home
--> negative experience at school (they assumed that if you knew Spanish, then your English skills must be worse than the other kids)

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One parent speaks English, one parent speaks English and Spanish. They spoke to me in both languages for some time but then stopped, so my Spanish skills are very very limited.

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1) Armenian - Native country, also at home
2) Spanish - High School Spanish classes

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Was born in the Middle East, spoke Arabic, and learned English when we came to the US.
Spanish in elementary and Italian for two years at UCSD.

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French in Pre-K, Mandarin in 1st grade (forgot them)

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Languauges - English, Spanish, Mandarin
Spanish learned from being raised in a spanish speaking environment.
Mandarin learned from being raised learning both english and mandarin, but has regressed due to less use.

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Japanese - Learned from birth (fluent)
Kansai-ben (Japanese dialect) - Learned from environment but very limited ability
Mandarin - Learned from birth (fluent)

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- Learned Spanish at 2 years old, English at 2.5 years old (speaks both languages at home) (English at school)

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Japanese friend learned from birth environment/ Chinese friend learned from school

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Japanese friend learned from birth environment/ Chinese friend learned from school

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Understanding Spanish at home
Reading/Writing Spanish at school

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Learning Spanish freshman year of high school (continued through high school and the first couple years of college) (wasn't introduced early) (speak Spanish at work)

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Learn Vietnamese in home setting
English in an education/school setting
Receptive im Tagalog from home
ASL from education/school

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learned at home,

spanish: more receptive

arabic: speech and listen

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Spanish fluency, at home