Time transcripts of andihila

[00:00:00:00]	Alright so, learning how to speak English

[00:00:04:00]	so I basically moved here when I was in Kindergarten so..

[00:00:08:01]	for about the first 2 months, I was pretty much lost in class

[00:00:12:01]	and I didn't know what any of the words meant and the teacher just

[00:00:16:01]	pointed at pictures and saying words but I didn't really get it and then watching cartoons

[00:00:20:02]	helped, I would say because I associated actions with a thing

[00:00:24:02]	but I mean, I remember in kindergarten.. the speech teacher

[00:00:28:02]	or whatever came in and... she like took

[00:00:32:02]	my hand and dragged me to the speech room, but I thought i was being kidnapped

[00:00:36:03]	because I really didn't know what was going on, and then I realized she was just teaching me

[00:00:40:03]	how to say "apple" and stuff.. and I guess after like...

[00:00:44:03]	3 or 4 months of just being around the words and constantly hearing them

[00:00:48:04]	 I kind of just started... because English is, the syntax

[00:00:52:04]	is completely different than what I'm accustomed to so I started like

[00:00:56:04]	clicking in my brain.. and then like

[00:01:00:04]	probably watching like Arthur and the other kiddie TV show

[00:01:04:04]	I learned how to say it and then I learned how to

[00:01:08:05]	speak it and read it {Interviewer] So is English really

[00:01:12:05]	different from your native language? which what is.. what is

[00:01:16:06]	that? -Albanian, I was born in Albania, I spoke that

[00:01:20:06]	the syntax is different and like theres a lot more slang in English so..

[00:01:24:06]	It was harder to pick up.. in that sense but I mean

[00:01:28:07]	to get accustomed to the different syntax, I feel like... Because I kind of speak Spanish

[00:01:32:07]	too and I used to speak Italian when I was little too because I picked it up from TV

[00:01:36:07]	but English is.. the syntax is different so I just think... it takes a while

[00:01:40:07]	just to get accustomed to getting your brain to think the other way but like once you do...

[00:01:44:08]	its just visual cues and read, you just learn it

[00:01:48:08]	and like now I think in English but, like before when I was little I didn't think

[00:01:52:08]	in English, so now like reading in English

[00:01:56:08]	is like first nature to me rather than second nature [ Interviewer ] Do you speak in English at home to your parents?

[00:02:00:09]	-rarely.. I mean I speak a lot more

[00:02:04:09]	now.. but I usually just speak Albanian

[00:02:08:10]	-[ Interviewer ] Thanks