If native language means the first language you spoke, then it is german. I then learned my father tongue (luxembourgish), and when I moved to canada, after a few years (and a
very helpful english teacher who tought me the sound of the language I even dreamt and thought in english and didn't get identified as a non-native anymore.
Now, more than a decade after moving back to Austria, I struggle with my english, despite doing everything I can (movies only in original language, chatting up american citizens and refusing to help them improve their german ...) to keep it up.
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Originally Posted by cassidym
You'll notice the Ausies talk fast, especially in the Outback. This is due, I expect, to the prevalence of flies.
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