African civilian, world citizen
ok, I don’t really know what to say I’ll make it short
-Born in D.R.Congo then moved to Mozambique, where I spent my time going to South Africa and Swaziland. Attended an International school. Moved to the MD, USA lived between Silver Spring, DC and Hyattsvile, then moved to Japan, where I’m currently still a resident since that’s where my parents are but I am in Canada as an International student. I speak, French, English, Portuguese, Lingala, and I’m currently polishing my Italian and still learning Japanese. Well that’s all folks
K.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Welcome
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June 14th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
yay! you speak lots’f languages
bienvenue kael!
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June 15th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Welcome! like miyon said, that’s a lot of languages! I’m going on 4 now, but i’m getting the new ones mixed up! (chinese and german, an interesting mix)
Do you ever get those languages mixed up?
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June 15th, 2008 at 9:51 am
responding to USAFinn:. Of COURSE! My Portuguese and Italian get mixed up and since I speak a bit of Spanish too, it’s a whole Latin mess hahaha.. it’s not that bad but every now and then I’ll get confused especially if I’m speaking to different people who speak different languages at the same time.
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June 15th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
hey Kael!
Welcome to the site!
Eu falo português também!
I tend to mix the languages when I’m speaking to different people who speak different languages too. It’s confusing but very funny
I speak Portuguese, English and French fluently. Then some lousy Spanish and Italian, and a very tiny bit of German.
Don’t you LOVE learning new languages?!
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June 15th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
hey! i’m an international student in canada as well. my parents were in brazil until recently and my siblings speak portuguese but i’m learning spanish here so i can somewhat follow a conversation in brazilian portuguese. welcome to the site!
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June 17th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Hi there,
Let me introduce myself.
I am Congolese man living now in the Netherlands after travelled almost to anywhere in the world; finally I have found a place in Holland.
For your Lingala skills, this is a dictionary I have
made so far for my western friebnds I grew up with who wants to learn Lingala, because I was tired of translating words for them, decided to make a free online translator(so far I only have French to Lingla).
www.symantev.com
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June 17th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Bienvenue Kael!
Moi aussi je suis à Montréal en ce moment. You’ve moved quite a lot! How was Japan? Do your parents like it over there? Et toi, comment trouves tu Montréal??
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June 20th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Hi Kael, I’m originally from the US and grew up in Kenya and spent a significant time in Swaziland. My neice went to Waterford in Mbabane - did you? What a unique experience you’re having. It is great to meet a TCK from Africa!
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October 6th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
hello everyone,
i just recently discovered this website and am very grateful to brice and others who started it and keep it alive.
I’m a 45 year old man living in Vancouver, but born in Toronto. My father worked for the United Nations, so we moved to Algeria in 1969 for 3 years, to Nepal from 1972-74, Zaire from 1974-77, a year back to Canada, then off to Tanzania from 1978-1980. Since that time, I have spent an additional 4 years in India.
I would not trade my overseas experience for anything, but it has not always been easy, and as time goes on I can see that we are really molded to a large degree by our mobile childhoods - mixed blessings.
i have gone back to Africa twice in the last couple of years (including a few places never seen before) and now have a two year visa for Tanzania, where I will be going in November of this year.
It would be nice to hear from other ATCK who might be willing to share their experiences and realizations that come from having a different childhood.
thank you,
Kevin
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