I am an American living in Las Vegas.  My wife is Filipina.  We have two 
languages in our home.  Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we speak in Tagalong, 
from the Filipinas.  The other three we speak in English.  They must speak 
correctly or we do not respond to them..  They are fully and correctly 
bi-lingual in every way, and without accents!

Sunday is a free for all! :)

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Many Thanks,  :)
Don Strevel, Las Vegas, NV.  www.mysecretvegas.com
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"etaka" <etaka@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> That's an interesting situation NC86's student is in, her parents have
> letting her conversational Japanese slip that way. My kids can now have
> spontaneous simple arguments with each other in English "It's mine!"
> "No, it's mine!" but I don't see us not speaking to them in Japanese
> soon. I doubt my wife will ever give up speaking Japanese as they grow
> up.
>
> Insensitive people in Japan, at least those who don't know that woman,
> would mistake her for or perhaps treat her as foreign, in the way that
> resident Chinese and Koreans I knew who spoke like native Japanese were
> treated as no different from Japanese or the way I used to pass as a
> Japanese if there was no reason to present ID. After they let people
> know, they were in for a flurry of questions or oohs and ahhs about
> their good Japanese, however. I wonder how she'd do in a Japanese Only
> establishment. And unfortunately enough, the few resident Chinese and
> Koreans I have known willing to out themselves have had pretty
> stereotypical lifestyles, eg owning or working in pachinko parlors,
> construction companies, yakiniku restaurants, or Chinese restaurants;
> attending Korean universities, or openly espousing extreme
> anti-imperial or pro-Korean views. I wish I'd known more ordinary
> people, say an ethnic Korean nurse or naturalized Japanese who became a
> government worker.
>