My fearless padlet about Language by SUNYCOIL https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3 Made with charm en-us 2021-01-14 15:02:25 UTC 2026-03-06 01:50:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Hope sunycoil https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087495967 English > yiddish
hearing yiddish on the bus, hearing spanish and french in the neighborhood, babysitter Spanish language native speaker, visiting Montreal and Quebec, hearing French, hearing french Mon Dieu! from friend of dad

]]> 2021-01-14 15:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087495967 Connie https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087497736 English - Spanish (Texas) - exposed to and then learned Spanish in school and community. Heard French (exposed through international work) 
Parents/Grandparents - Dutch - English 
Through adult travel even more exposure through travel and new community (New York)]]> 2021-01-14 15:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087497736 Gabi (Hunt) https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087500309 Fluent in Italian (maternal grandparents) > my mom > me being around maternal grandmother (though never learned)
Fluent in Finnish (paternal great grandmother) > my grandfather > my dad > me (no knowledge, was unfortunately lost with time
Latin in high school (haha!) - me
Arabic in college - me (the first time I encountered how difficult it is to advocate for one's self in another language)]]> 2021-01-14 15:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087500309 Patricia https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087501369 Community -- German > English > Spanish 
Parental interest -- Thai > Chinese
Academic -- Spanish > French > German > Arabic

]]> 2021-01-14 15:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087501369 Claire globalcitiesinc https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087502305 English (native)
German (heard from family)
Italian (academic, young age, briefly)
Spanish (academic, many years, in daily interactions, in work)
French (for interest, from time to time)

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Pashto & Urdu (Geographic location & School)
English (School & after-school, Geographic location)
Arabic (College)]]> 2021-01-14 15:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087505445 Wendy https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087508417 english (native)
french (school, living in Belgium)
japanese (as my mom learned)
bambarra (]]> 2021-01-14 15:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087508417 Ania https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087508485 Polish (native)
Silesian (local dialect > I did not use as a kid - it gained popularity in my twenties)
German (my first foreign language)
English (my professional language)
Bits of Russian - summer language courses in Moscow and St Petersburg (wanted to hear the Russian fragments in Polish film :))
Spanish (I'm learning now because my unexpected! post-doc in Spain)
Throughout my life I was also exposed to some bits of Belarusian as my father was born in a Polish family in Belarus - then USSR)
]]> 2021-01-14 15:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087508485 Elizabeth https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087515536 -American English (native)
-Polish (heard from grandma + aunts, don't speak)
-Spanish (heard in church community growing up, wanted to learn and eventually became fluent)
-German (began to learn in high school, did not continue)
-Bangla (boyfriend's family speaks, am learning for fun!)]]> 2021-01-14 15:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087515536 Gaby M. https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087518756 Spanish (native)
English: First foreign language. Interest in music. I live close to the US border
Portuguese: Internship in Brazil
French: My mom likes listening to music in French]]> 2021-01-14 15:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1087518756 Hana Yasser hanayasserfarag30 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1764202750 Arabic my mother tongue
English began to learn from kindergarten 
French began to learn from the preparatory stage ]]> 2021-09-23 23:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/1764202750 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3771114031 2026-01-30 21:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3771114031 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3771114599 2026-01-30 21:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3771114599 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528074 2026-02-20 23:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528074 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528088 2026-02-20 23:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528088 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528096 2026-02-20 23:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528096 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528103 2026-02-20 23:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528103 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528111 2026-02-20 23:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528111 https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528116 2026-02-20 23:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sunycoil/q22ww27giw61dw3/wish/3796528116