![]() ![]() My French is now more or less fluent, I can understand and read it, and write it quite well. After that I only used my French occasionally and it became somewhat rusty, until I started going to a French conversation group every week in Bangor. After finishing school in 1988 I spent a year working in various places, including three months in France, and became fluent in French. It was compulsory for the first three years, and as I found it interestingĪnd had a vague idea that I'd like to work abroad one day, I decided to continue studying it after that. ![]() I started learning French at secondary school in 1981 at the age of 11. ![]() * This idea is much easier to express in Welsh: Cymraes di-Gymraeg. I can now speak, understand, read and write and sing in Welsh. I studied some Welsh in 1998, did courses in Wales in 20, and since 2008 I have lived in Bangor in North Wales, and regularly use Welsh. So there were Welsh language materials around the house and I picked up some odd words and phrases, and I always wanted to learn the language. My mother, a non-Welsh-speaking Welsh woman* who grew up in England, and has tried to learn Welsh a number of times. Welsh was probably the first other language I encountered. My accent tends to change depending on who I'm talking to, and I enjoy mimicing different regional accents, which is possibly one of the reasons why I developed such an interest in languages. accent from my parents, and some aspects of other accents and dialects from other people. I grew up in Lancashire in the north west of England, and acquired an R.P.
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