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Re: monolingualism




Thank you for explaining me about monolingualism.You are so helpful. I hope
we have a good relation. If you have spare time, you can e-mail me about
anything. I would like to get the knowledge from you.
					Happy New Year
					Sureerut Wongsaming (sureerut@bkk.a-net.net.th)

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> From: Karen S. Chung <karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw>
> To: Ask A Linguist <ask-ling@LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Cc: sureerut wongsaming <sureerut@box1.a-net.net.th>
> Subject: Re: monolingualism
> Date: 27 >DH(T!RB9 2540 12:29
> 
> 
> > From: sureerut wongsaming <sureerut@bkk.a-net.net.th>
> 
> > What is the monolingualism? Please explain in detail.
> 
> 	'Monolingualism' is having the ability to speak only one language,
> normally one's native language. 
> 
> 	A related joke:
> 
> 	'What do you call someone who speaks two languages?'
> 	'Bilingual.'
> 	'What do you call someone who speaks more than two languages?'
> 	'Mulitlingual.'
> 	'And what do you call someone who speaks only one language?'
> 	'American.'
> 
> 					  Karen Steffen Chung		
> 					  National Taiwan University	
> 					  karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw
> 
> 					 
> 
> 


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