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Can English be your native language, even if its not "native" or "official" in your country of citizenship, but its the only language you know? (If not, does your "native language" become a language you don´t know?)
And is there a difference between native language and first language?
[12-07-2007,22:59]
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Anonymous |
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native language or first language is the one you spoke in your family home.
[13-07-2007,04:18]
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sharon |
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Native language of a person and official language of the country are two different things. If you are British and have only lived in Spain, whats your native language? ofcourse, English unless your parents and relatives were all Spanish. You work in Saudi Arabia but you speak English at home, your native language is still English and not Arabic.
Remember, even if you are a native speaker of English you still need to convince CIC that you should be awarded 16 points.
[13-07-2007,04:27]
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Anonymous |
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if you claim full points without a language test ensure you outline that you speak it at home and all your schooling was in english - include docs as proof
[13-07-2007,07:14]
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the big burp |
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Thanks, that is in fact correct. I was just hoping immigration wouldn´t make an uninformed decision, and wanted to check what the word on the street was. cheers all.
[13-07-2007,10:27]
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Anonymous |
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one of the reasons CIC has regional offices is to insure that staff become experts in the standards and customs of an applicants country. They know full well that as an example, north african countries speak arabic at home but school is taught in French. It is also the language used for business. Therefore it becomes a matter of fact when you adequately support your claim to proficiency.
[13-07-2007,15:34]
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sharon |
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Sharon,
Do you mean that moroccon people cannot claim French as mother tongue ???
[13-07-2007,16:01]
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CBV333 |
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Sharon said:
" as an example, north african countries speak arabic at home but school is taught in French. It is also the language used for business."
Sorry, you got it wrong in this one. I know, your man is from there. Arabic is their native, professional, official and business language. French is a second, yes, but is fading away. It was the language imposed on them (by force) during the dark colonial time. Never again. never again.
[13-07-2007,18:13]
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Sam |
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my hubby is tunisian and was taught french from an early age, everyone there is bilingual but arabic is still the native language and french is 2nd - its just that everyone speaks it fluently.
this is probably a different situation e.g. living as an expat in dubai but speaking english at home due to e.g. english parents and going to a british or american school - these schools teach the same curriculum as the native country and also all subjects are taught in english....they should see this and recognise this fact if the case if properly evidenced. its different in northern african where ppl are now taught in arabic at school (most of the time) and speak in arabic with friends/family (with some french words thrown in) therefore making arabic the native language but most ppl are fluent in french since theyre taught it from a very young age
[14-07-2007,01:41]
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the big burp |
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whatever Sam, enough fluency to be handed 16 points for French without a language test and all his transcripts are in french, the bank documents are in french. As long as he got 16 points, is all I care.
[14-07-2007,02:23]
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sharon |
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Your native language is the fist language your learn
[14-07-2007,03:18]
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Anonymous |
