I'm still working on establishing a 2nd language in 'real life!' Although if you add together the segments of poor French, Turkish & Portuguese slang and some grammatically incorrect Spanish, I may have netted one?
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I'm still working on establishing a 2nd language in 'real life!' Although if you add together the segments of poor French, Turkish & Portuguese slang and some grammatically incorrect Spanish, I may have netted one?
Yay a Somali person who speaks Somali:ciappa:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cultivated
My first language is Somali as well and I hope to become very very fluent in English; I have been studying English since the age of 11.
Well English isn't my first language and I'm still learning. I can speak Urdu and Saraiki quite fluently. I can understand Punjabi but can't speak it. I know a bit Pashto too but sadly enough, just a bit. :sad:
While English is my first language, I can speak a little bit of Spanish. I have studied some of the koine Greek of the Bible. I'm learning American Sign Language. But the one I am most proud of is the eloquent language of a three year old.
well, about me , from China, first language Chinese, Also speak some Japanese. studied English since 6, but seems never get the good part of it. Well, most time i studied languages just for exams and reading papers. kinda boring and geeky to be here ^ ^||,
anyway, nice to see u here~ love sci-fi novels and movies, in any language~
In my case, English was technically my first language, then I learned Fookien(?) and Mandarin Chinese, then Tagalog. I'm most fluent in English, then Tagalog (because I live in the Philippines), then Fookien (thanks to my parents), and lastly Mandarin (because my school wasn't that good in teaching Mandarin) :|
Yeah... so that's my story.
My first language is English but I live in Spain so Spanish is my primary-use language. However I also speak French and at home we often mix all three, sometimes in the same sentence, and often in the same conversation. I have a nodding acquaintance with Italian and can understand it if the speaker is Tuscan. Roman accent, not so much.
The very first language I spoke in was Spanish, but I learned both that and english at around the same time.
Dutch is my first language! :)
I speak Finnish, English and a (very) little Swedish, because I have to read it in school(grade was 6 :)) . First language is Finnish.
my 1st language is english, but I also speak spanish & spainglish...:banana:
This is the most intelligent phrase I've read in the whole week http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/jus...C_thinking.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
My first language is Arabic. I speak English too because I love it, you could say that I taught myself to speak it ^_^ I can speak alittle French and intend to study it well after graduating ( that's two months away yay!).
If English really is your first language why don't you use a capital E for it?
Yes, English is my first language (I am from the United States -- right in the middle), and I also speak Esperanto pretty fluently. Why would anyone learn that kind of language? Don't ask me -- I don't --but I began to learn it in March 2009 and now can hold conversations in it. I will probably take up another language someday -- almost definitely a European language, probably from the Romance family. I have a friend who speaks Romanian -- but who speaks that? :P -- and, of course, Spanish is the most practical where I live (but if I cared about practicality, why did I learn Esperanto?)
Jes, la angla estas mia denasklingvo (mi loĝas en Usono -- precize en la mezo), kaj mi ankaŭ parolas esperante iom flue. Kial iu lernus tian lingvon? Ne demandu -- mi ne scias -- sed mi eklernis ĝin en marto 2009 kaj nun eblas konversi per ĝi. Mi verŝajne eklernos alian lingvon iutage -- preskaŭ certe eŭropan lingvon, verŝajne latidan lingvon. Mi havas amikinon kiu parloas romane -- sed kiu parloas tion? :P) -- kaj, kompreneble, la hispana estas la plej praktika por kie mi loĝas (sed se mi zorgus pri praktikeco, kial mi lernis Esperanton?)
My first language is Swedish but i speak some english! :)
My first language is Spanish. I started studying English as a child and I'm fluent in it. I usually read books in that language.
English is my first language but not in the real life...
(Like...I don't talk in English with other people.)
I started with English on the time i started with computers...
They were teaching it in Kindergarden and i was first one of my age, who could make some sentences in English.
Right now when someone shows an object to me then first thing that pops into my head is it's English name and then Estonian.
I talk also Russian and i am trying to learn Japanese and Italian.
English is my acquired language and I have been learning it nonstop hitherto now since I was twenty two, before that I did not know it. My first language is Nepali, a daughter of the Sanskrit language. It is no doubt a beautiful language and I can express my thoughts more eloquently thorough Nepali. I had a passion for English since my early childhood. The one an only reason I chose English as a second language owing mainly to the fact that this is gaining importance and momentum global scale in recent times. Of course it is through this beautiful language I can connect myself with the rest of the world. What is more over time English drew massively on so many other languages, paroles, directs, and it thus kept on advancing to a stage today that most non-English countries too have the fascination to learn. Today it has a link-language status. Even inside Nepali if a circle of educated Nepali people come together it is English they use as a medium of communication and that is the drive that promoted me to learn it. I feel a little bit comfortable with this language yet I feel I have yet to go a long way to say that I know it. Nevertheless I can take price in the fact that I can speak and write with mellifluence.
English
This is a common mistake for every language.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weehet
Now for the thread. I don't think that English is anyone's native tongue. In fact, we all had spoken gobberish when we were still infants.
Ok I'll stop...
My mother tongue is Tagalog, a native language of the Philippines. I learned English when I was three by being curious and reading books. It is not that I prefer English over my own native language. It's just that I've been taught that English is THE language that I must learn for it is one of the mainstream society's most recurring languages. A language used in everything, from video games to business meetings. Think of me learning English as a case of "group thinking". However, I don't regret learning it, I mean I love languages!
I read/write/speak Romanian (unfortunately).
But i learned English,French,Spanish and Italian.
Actually in Romania, English is starting to take over with more and more people speaking it in common discussions. I found it that when speaking with my friends something like 40-50% of the words I speak are in English and they understand me...