Is English your first language?

Yes. I've been learning English for 17 years now, even though I'm only 17! ;-)

chinese is my first lanuage~

English is my first language. I will soon be studying a second language for my Masters, but I have not decided which one to learn. I was thinking Latin...anybody have some suggestions?

My first language is Swedish. We started studying English in third or fourth grade though, and I have a certificate in Cambridge Advanced English, but that doesn't make me good enough though. I hate grammar, but I love reading and writing.

I've been studying a few languages in school as well. A few years of French, one year of Spanish and German. So, I know the basics of those languages, but would probably have to study them again to really get it. I wasn't really interested in learning back then, but would be now.

Languages I would want to learn is Chinese, Swahili and now Portugese (I just got a foster-child in Cape Verde that speaks Portugese).

hi every body,

my mother tongue is Arabic, and i am living in k.s.a. My second language is english. I am half fluent speaker of english. After I finish studying english, I hope to study japanese, spanish,and german.

mi primera lengua es español y mi segunda lengua es ingles... hihihihi my first language is spanish and my second is english.... =)

Nope. English isn't my first language. I'm still learning it though.

My first language is German, second English, third French... and I am going to learn Dutch very soon. :blush:

firstly,i'm also a Chinese.and i understand your agony.
to say the truth,our Chinese is more difficult than English,isn't it??
practise now and you can see your progress.
go fighting :D

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Originally Posted by Adelheid

Mine is a weird case, I guess. Being a chinese, I'm supposed to speak chinese as my mothertongue, like the rest of my cousins, but I grew up in an English school. I was taught both chinese and English, but because we speak english at home, my english became better. Then moving to Australia made my chinese worse... at the best i can only understand people who speak in mandarin, and can only speak a few basic words of chinese... what a disgrace. :rolleyes: all my years of studying chinese is wasted!

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firstly,i'm also a Chinese.and i understand your agony.
to say the truth,our Chinese is more difficult than English,isn't it??
practise now and you can see your progress.
go fighting

um... urdu, but I learned english a few years later, I guess.

My first language is Arabic, i am trying now to master English,and i am in my first steps of learning French

:)

Chinese is my first language

I'm German/Swede so I speak both languages fluently

My mothertongue is Turkish. Now I'm studying ELT. Two years later I will be an English teacher..:)