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I am Irish, German, Hungarian, Bolivian and Romanian.
I just call myself white, lol.
As for languages, I know the MauriMauri language (it's a little island off of Australia) Japanese, Spanish and that's it! I want to learn German though. We are going to put my son in Japanese immersion school. :)
My step father is Japanese.
OK, half Norweigan, one quarter English, one eighth German, and the other eighth is probably a mix of French and Indian, but we aren't sure about Grandma's Ma!
And a Hawaiian name - sooooooooo OOF DA! and ALOHA!!!, y'all!!!
English German Scots Irish Swedish? Swiss? Dutch Canadian AND American
:D
I can curse in English, French, Spanish, Cantonese and i know one or two Punjabi insults
call it a 'hobby' hee hee
My last name is swedish I believe. I think mine are England, Scotland/Wales, Sweden, and I don't know what else. Of course this is very distant....
All Norweigan.
Hmm...I have a little bit of Swedish, Norweigen, Scottish, Danish and a few others I can't recall right now :D I can sing a song is Swedish;)
WHY??? So you can talk with your hands? LOL My husband is part french and when he talks his hands and arms are on the go!! I think that lbaker is some french she talks with her hands too! I got the picture to prove it!:DQuote:
Originally posted by FloppsyLadySally89
[color=dark-blue]Ah, I know my heritages by rough percentages.
Though I wish I had a little French in me:)[/color]
I definitely got the Scots temper *coff*
well i dunno how to spell it but i can say Koothie and Kootha
which means b!@@ and ba#@$#
i can pronounced them correctly, I work with East Indians :)
i also know the words to food like Alu Tiki and Samosa
and I know to say popcornbird-gee
hehehe
That's because America is the great "melting pot" - we take people from all the other continents and throw them together over here and that's why we have so many "mutts" - it's kind of cool, actually! Everybody in the U.S. is a "something-American", since the only people native to this country are American Indians.
I guess I'd have to call myself a "European-American". :p I am German, Irish, Swedish, and English - mostly German though. I don't really speak any languages other than American English, although I know a lot of British words:p and one or two Spanish ones from my junior-high Spanish class several centuries ago.
I think it would be neat to have a one-country background - it would make researching your family tree a lot easier
:D
I think that depends on what country it is. Swedish geneology is nearly impossible to trace if you don't know it already, so on that side, we don't know anything but the town they lived in prior to coming to America. In the old Swedish naming system, your LAST name is your father's FIRST name with s"son" or "daughter (dotter)" tacked on. So while my grandfather's last name was Peterson, my Dad's last name should have been Axelson, as grandpa was Axel Peterson. MY maiden name therefore would have been Donaldsdotter, and my brothers would have been Donaldsons! But we're in America now, so we've all been Petersons! There - if you think THAT's confusing, try following it backwards!Quote:
Originally posted by All Creatures Great And Small
I think it would be neat to have a one-country background - it would make researching your family tree a lot easier
:D
I'm half Italian and half Filipino....and half of that Italian is...*whispers* Sicilian!
I think I am one of the rare non-mixed ...LOL
I was born in Belgium , in the region of Flanders . So is all of my family !! I am 100% Flemish !!
About languages : Dutch , French , English , German , and a few Dutch dialects .:D
Half Australian, with some of that half descending from Scotland and who knows where else (the skeletons in the family closet aren't all out yet!). The other half is Dutch for at least the last four generations. I speak English, a bit of French, and am picking up a few Catalan phrases thanks to this board! Dad gave up Dutch when he came here as a schoolboy, so I never learnt the language but when my relatives are trying to have secret squirrel conversations in Dutch, I pick up enough to work it out :D
I'm also an all-around-American mutt...Mostly irish & french, with a smattering of American Indian, German, English. I think that's all.
50% Italian (my Dad Is 100%)
and then
Russian, Pennsylvania Dutch, with a little Irish thrown in for good measure. (my Mom's "mixture)
Besides English (or I should say "American") the only other language I understand is CAT