Freddie's languages

"watashi tachi wa Nippon ni mata kore te ureshii desu" awwwwww :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPbCl6rmOS0

he spent 30 years (or so) in London - does that mean he was fluent in cockney rhyming slang also?

wah, that was so gratuitously aggressive, wow :P

how do [b]YOU[/b] interpret that ^^^ [i][b]as gratuitously aggressive[/b][/i]? it's just a simple statement of fact.
it's not like i called anyone a fuckwit or anything. just a very clear statement that - 
if 15 years in India should leave someone fluent in Hindi (and any other of the 20 or so languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent), then by consequence of that reasoning - 30 yrs in London should make someone a veritable Cockney Pearly King

I interpret it as unnecessarily aggressive, and that's all, thank you.

And who knows, maybe he was fluent in cockney.

Fred was a cockney geezer.

that's what Im sayin'

Even if he ended up forgetting it or not being as fluent due speaking English most of his life Freddie was NOT a native English speaker. Yall talk as if freddie was born in boarding school. When he moved to India at age 10 aside from the school , he lived with his grandmother and aunt. I really doubt he spoke to them in english. And it was not just one occasion considering freddie LIVED with them during his stay in india. I ASSUME he had to speak to them in gujarati. Freddie had to been able to communicate in India other than English. Also while he was living with his parents. You can tell by the very thick Accent his mother is not a native English speaker so it's very probable English wasn't the language spoken at home when growing on. Unless of course school and friends just like any kid who can speak English does. Also before he was 10 his first years in school and pretty much his life was in Zanzibar. So I'm pretty sure he had to communicate in shawlini or whatever the name is I can't recall. Then he went back to zanzibar again for some months before moving to England . The point is before 1964 freddie was very culturally diverse. I'm sure he must have been a multilingual child though after going to England he would just speak English. Maybe he wasn't as fluent because once you stop speaking a language that happens. But I'm sure he had to know gujarati and what they speak in zanzibar besides English which was probably like the 3rd language he learned.

You also have to understand that during that period it was seen in a negative way to be frome the colonies. That's why Freddie changed his name and tried to fit the "english mould" by hiding his Indian heritage. He was proud of it but in his private life. So I'm sure Freddie knew other languages and surely didn't only speak in english with his parents.

I think his sister said once (at a fan club convention maybe?) that at home they spoke mostly English and also occasionally Swahili.

Sure, Fred's parents' native language was not English, but it doesn't mean his wasn't either... precisely because of all the discrimination generated by having been born in the colonies, it could be that his parents spoke to him and Kashmira in English, hoping they wouldn't have to face that problem. Loads of Korean, Russian, Cuban, German, etc., families in America, Britain, etc., do it with their own kids so that generation has English as their native language, even if it's not the same as the parents'.

Most of native english speakers say that Freddie had a posh british accent. Is that right?

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When I see a thread bumped, I usually hope it's a spambot with some quotable nonsense rather than a newbie asking about Freddie's teeth.

I know quite a few Indians who were born and raised in India, and many of them speak English as their first language AS WELL as communicating in other languages including Hindi and Tamil. It's highly likely that Freddie only spoke English, but it's not impossible that he knew other languages of course. I guess this is one of the mysteries of his childhood.

The English spoken in India is/was British, but of course there will be some sentence structures that aren't exactly the same, and there'll be some words not exactly the same, etc, as happens when a language breaks away from its mother land. Perfect example, American English and British English.

I would be surprised if Freddie didn't know at least Tamil or Hindi, or Gujerati, although whether he communicated in these languages regularly only Kashmira would know - if she knows.

I wonder if he asked his boyfriends to please come again?