We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.
I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.
I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.