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⌈ Secret Post #2033 ⌋

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[Mortal Kombat]

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[The Young and the Restless]

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[Firefly, Joss Whedon; Sherlock BBC, Steven Moffat]

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[not really porny but implied underage sexual stuff; photomanip; snape/hermione]

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13. [SPOILER WARNING for Pokemon Black/White]

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14. [SPOILER WARNING for Kurau: Phantom Memory]

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15. [WARNING for rape]

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[Kono Naka ni Hikari, Imouto ga Iru!]

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[Eden Lake]

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I don't think many people will even know of this language, but Hmong. My parents are first generation in the USA (I was born and raised in the USA). I feel terrible, though, because when I was a young child I spoke mostly Hmong, but as I grew older I became much more fluent in English. These days, I stutter through my native language and feel like a failure that I can't speak it very well.

That must be awful .__. I'm sorry you feel that way about it *hugs* I know it's not the same as your case, but nowadays I find that I can write and express myself more fluently in English than in Spanish (fandom influence? just too much hard-interneting on the English side of it?), so I guess it has to do with how often you practise organising your thoughts in a specific language. Maybe you can find somebody else to practise your language with? Specific forums if there's no one IRL who speaks it?
Also, where is Hmong from? *curious anon is so very curious*

Thanks for the internet hug! I do want to practice on my Hmong, but my closest Hmong friends aren't very fluent in it either (American upbringing, why do you make being a second generation child so difficult? T~T ), and my older sister is rather fluent but I don't want to put up with her snide remarks. I am wondering now if there are forums somewhere out there that can help me speak and read Hmong now. LOL
Hmong people come from Laos, but most of the Hmong people are either living in Thailand or the USA now. My parents came here as refugees escaping from the results of the Vietnam war.
A bit funny that we are discussing native languages here today, because yesterday, after my mom had a bit of a brain fart and thought she lost my brother's Social Security Card and she asked me to help her find it, I was looking through my parents' old paperwork and I came across a lot of their immigration papers. It was really humbling to see it all. I almost broke down into tears when I found, inside my dad's flight ticket, an "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY" note typed in English, Hmong, and Thai (the Hmong people have to flee out of Laos into Thailand and seek refuge there before they can find a way to come to the US) that was worded along the lines of, "Hello, my name is ________. I am an Indochinese refugee and I do not speak English. My sponsor has not arrived to pick me up. If you may please help me by calling the number below and ask for (a person's name I don't remember), it will help me tremendously." I'm sure there was more to it, but I can't remember it too well. I just thought of my dad as a young nineteen year old boy with his sixteen year old sister, both of whom did not speak a word of English, looking around the airport, terrified that their uncle had not made it to the airport, and having to hand over this note to strangers. It really broke my heart to think that before leaving Thailand, my dad was most likely told what that note was for.

Sorry for the tl;dr story. I totally didn't mean to do it. ._.

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no, that was actually very sweet (bittersweet?) and interesting

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It's a very touching story, thanks for sharing your family's past with us :) The trouble immigrants have to go through are unimaginable to most people who've always lived in the same country without ever needing to leave their entire lives behind.

there was a patient from a Hmong family in the last season of House, so people might know it from there! (no comment on whether it was a fair representation...)

I don't watch House, but I may be checking out that episode soon.
My best friend told me that on Doogie Houser M.D. she recalled that there was a Hmong family in an episode, and my mind was blown when she said that a young NPH was speaking Hmong. Damn, I need to find that episode now. XD
Also, "Gran Tarino" was about the Hmong community. Some people complained about the representation of the Hmong community in the movie, but I found it generally faithful although there were some rather teeth grinding exaggerations/alterations for the sake of Hollywood.

YANA, anon. My first language is Lithuanian, but I haven't spoken it often since my grandmother died fifteen years ago (my father barely spoke it at all and my mom was fluent, but rarely ever used it), and today I would consider myself barely fluent. It happens, especially when you don't use the language often.

I wish I could get some practice speaking it, but I am the only person I know IRL that even knows where Lithuania is beyond it being somewhere in the former Soviet Union.

I do know a Hmong speaker IRL, though- is your family from Laos?

It must be more difficult for you since neither of your parents speak Lithuania. My parents still speak Hmong to me, but I tend to reply in English since I stutter and pause a lot when I speak Hmong.

And yes, my family is from Laos, but both my parents were refugees in Thailand for a few years before they were able to immigrate to America.

My mother is from Lithuania! I've been there a few times; it's a beautiful country. The only words I can say are "Labas", "Taipe" and "Achoo". My mother was actually a Russian Jewish girl whose family ended up there after the war, and she actually didn't learn Lithuanian until she went to college. She's fluent now though.

This happened to my father: his native language was Hebrew, but he moved to North America (Canada and then the States) at 10 and learned English, and now he barely speaks Hebrew at all.

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