Is English your first language?

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Originally Posted by Koa

In Italian "sensibile" means sensitive, not sensible...sensible would be something like "ragionevole". Well like adil said about French.

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That, of course, means nothing at all to me since my Italian is constricted to knowing how to count and recognizing the words we also adopted from latin terms. ... But I still know what you mean (God bless the dictionary!).

English isn't my first language nor my second

I speak Creole, then when I was began school, I started learning French. Moved here a few years ago...so now, I speak English too.

I want to learn other languages too....

Woah, the gap is closing, it's at 11/14 English/other now.

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Originally Posted by samercury

English isn't my first language nor my second

I speak Creole....

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So many languages have been lost throughout the ages, Creole is threatened as well, is it not?? I don't remember where you are from Samercury, but would I be well wrong if I guessed Lousianna, Florida, or environs? Every language is a spoken record, a lost language is enlightenment lost for all of mankind.......perhaps a few words in Creole that we could all use in our day to day lives? .......too much to ask?.....too bold.....?

I speak chinese. I have learned english for more than 10 years. But because I seldomly use it in real life, my english is still not good. Finding this site gives some rewards of learning english, I can communicate with people who speak different languages.

humm well my spoken first languaage is english oh and my written when i think about it as I went to an english o or was it american school? but my sisters first spoken lang is english and there first written is classical arabic.

so "sensible"in french means what sensibility in english?

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Originally Posted by logos

they might be dyslexic.

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raises hand
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Originally Posted by topomeas

I speak chinese. I have learned english for more than 10 years. But because I seldomly use it in real life, my english is still not good. Finding this site gives some rewards of learning english, I can communicate with people who speak different languages.

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Hello topomeas, welcome!

English isn't my first languages. My first languages are Swedish and Finnish. English would be my third languages then. I'm quite fluent, and I use it on a daily basis, but (unfortunately) only in writing.

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Originally Posted by faith

English isn't my first languages. My first languages are Swedish and Finnish. English would be my third languages then. I'm quite fluent, and I use it on a daily basis, but (unfortunately) only in writing.

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You write English very well. I'm amazed by (and envious of) people who are multi-lingual. Aside from my mother tongue, I speak and write some Spanish, but not fluently. I flunked Latin in junior high school (the only course I ever failed) and this made me gun-shy about trying to learn foreign languages. Authors who write whole books in a second language are geniuses to me.

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

humm well my spoken first languaage is english oh and my written when i think about it as I went to an english o or was it american school? but my sisters first spoken lang is english and there first written is classical arabic.

so "sensible"in french means what sensibility in english?

raises hand
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"Sensible" in French means "sensitive" in English and many mix it with "sensible". We face this kind of problems a lot in translation. Dealing with languages is more like dealing with cultures.

No I means doesent sesiblity mean sensitive isnt that waht this means?

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Originally Posted by Googled define: sensibility

mental responsiveness and awareness
refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; "cruelty offended his sensibility"
sensitivity: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"

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My first language is theoretically english, however, like most Glaswegians I speak a variant of english which is generally not even understood by other english speakers. If anyone is interested in understanding the strage and senseless Glaswegian dialect more information can be found here http://www.semple.biz/hobbies/johnwalker3.htm

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Originally Posted by kilted exile

My first language is theoretically english, however, like most Glaswegians I speak a variant of english which is generally not even understood by other english speakers. If anyone is interested in understanding the strage and senseless Glaswegian dialect more information can be found here http://www.semple.biz/hobbies/johnwalker3.htm

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:D great link!

My mother language is Chinese, and I like it very much. My first foreign language is English, and I use it in my work sometimes. Well, I am learning Germany this year throught the BBC website.

Here I meet some understanding problem: In which case do you English speakers use "take the matter to trial"? and "contingency fee"?
I think it is very hard to understand the little words like "take" for me.