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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's great to know all of these languages but what practical use do they have? My parents tried to teach us the language growing up but on a day to day basis, I NEVER use it. I can watch tv shows and understand the language but I don't talk to my American friends in my "heritage" language. If you did something using it, then it makes sense. [/quote] Learning the language helped me to understand my heritage culture much better. Language is created as a way for a people to communicate what they want to say --- and what I came to realize is that my heritage culture had a lot of thoughts that can't be translated into English because English speaking people never came up with these ideas and concepts. You can sort of translate the concepts into English, but it never conveys 100%. [/quote]
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