Is English your first language?

My First language is Spanish, but I have learned to speak English. :D

First language is Finnish, but my education has always been in English until lately.

No, my first language is Arabic- precisely Lebanese.

The English language has become a common language all along the world.

Russian is my first language.

Newbie here,
Bengali (Bangla) is my first language, but i can speak English n Hindi as well.

So you are Indian :D I can understand Bangla. :)

hah! my first language is bangla as well, as it should be, since i m from Bangladesh! :)

Welcome Symphony :wave:

I just understand Bangla in bits and pieces :)

Hi symphany, litr girl and all! Welcome to the forum.

We are having so many people from South Asia! :D

My first language is italian

My first language is Bulgarian.

It would be great to speak in different languages!
My native language is russian, then i was studyin english, then german, now i'm studying spanish and trying not to forget previous languages :)

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Originally Posted by adilyoussef

Good thread! Thanks Logos. Behind any language there is a culture. Although we all use English here in these forums, the sentances we write are affected by our culture. For example, when somebody are delighted with somthing he/she might say "This warms my heart." In other cultures where the weather is hot another person might express it differently, like in my country, we say "This frozen my heart." In addition there are some "feaux amis" in a languge. For example, "sonsible" in French means sensitive, and many mix it with "sensible" which has an other meaning. That's a real problem because while discussing some issue people misundrestand each other due to simple mistakes.

In Arabic there is no capital letters. That's why some Arabic native speakers might forget using the capital letter in proper names or in the beginning of a sentance. That is a mistake I did when discussing a religious issue: I wrote "jesus" instead of "Jesus", and one of the forums member was angry with that. I'm sorry again.

English is neither my 1rst nor my 2nd language. I speek Moroccan Arabic as a native language, my second is Classical Arabic, for they are different in terms of structure, one is VSO structure and the other is sometimes VSO and SVO structure, the third langauge I speek sinse I was 6 years old is French. English is the 4th one and I've started studying it since 2001. I don't speek it a lot for that it is not used here in my country as French or Spanish are. I use it only in class, when reading a novel, or sometimes in the internet.

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Thank Allah I'm not the only Arabian here:D

Well Logos, English isn't my first language but I'm using it here and there on account of studying it privately. I'm studying English Literature and living in Jordan if you know it. I dare to admit I'm not that very good at it but at least I understand nearly 80-85% while reading or hearing this language. My 1st language is Arabic but as Adel says it's used as a 2nd one due to speak Jordanian Arabic. However, we all speak Arabic differently but we understand it as if we were having the same tongue!

Since two years I started to learn English, I became one of the best students at my faculty. Moreover, I do some researches to continue my studies until being a "Professor" one day if God lets me do so.

Online-literature Networks is one of the best sites I've ever met since beginning my studies and it's my home page even if I don't post here a lot. It's also my #1 English site and I like to browse member's topics and thoughts.

Thank you. :thumbs_up

my first language is Arabic, Egyptian. I've been learning English since I was 5 years old & learnt French too, but as I didn't use my French a lot, which I really regret now, not using a language makes u almost forget it!

Yes, English is my prime language. Learnt French, German, Italian, and Portuguese in my spare learning time