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Every single day of my live I was taught that in order to communicate throughout the world that I knew of is I needed to know a language. I was taught Russian, even though I was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Many times this language gave me everything that I have today, culture, traditions and even my own thoughts. People would see the world from their own perspective, from their own point of view of how they were raised in their family. My language is Russian. I used it in any part of communication, like speech, reading, writing. Even when I was in school in America I thought in Russian. Nowadays I think English before Russian, maybe because I speak most of the time at school and then when going home, I speak Russian, and no English is allowed in the house, with some exceptions.
The language that I speak is only used on community meetings, for non-English speaking people from Russia or from other Slavic countries, and between family members. Languages are usually passed down generation through generation, from parents to children. For me, learning English was a hard thing, even coming from my motherland. I started to learn the language kind of quicker than my parents, simply because languages are easily learned by children rather than by adults. Language is limited for some people, especially if you're an adult and you're coming from a foreign country that doesn't have English as it's second language.
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