english is my mother tongue and my only language. as an american i believe english should be the official language of the united states, but i think it would be wonderful if everyone could speak and understand all languages.
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english is my mother tongue and my only language. as an american i believe english should be the official language of the united states, but i think it would be wonderful if everyone could speak and understand all languages.
Yes , English is my first language
I've started learning English in 2000
English is not my native language.
I speak Japanese.
German
Lithunian is my mother tongue
Uhmmm... I'm a Spanish speaker, but for some reason I've always felt more at ease writing in English :)
No, English is not my first language.
Yes, it is. (Born in America)
It is indeed my first, and currently only language. I am not pleased with my monoglot status and hope one day to be fluent in at least two other languages.
Ghaidhlig is my first and favourite but I'm fairly fond of this foreign tongue.
English is my second language, Polish is my mother tongue. I also have a tacit knowledge of Spanish.
No, I am an ESLer. Those who live in the Us and are immigrants would know what that stands for. The rest can scratch their heads or ask :)
English is not my first language. I am Spanish =)
yo soy espanol,ingles es mi segundo lenguaje
Polish is my first language. I speak also English, Spanish and German.
My first language is the language of Camões.
No. Mine's Filipino. English serve as my second language
My mother tongue is Persian.
I came to United States when I was in middle school. I had to take ESL classes for about two years and then took off to "regular" classes.
Did you have many problems in participating "regular" classes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tobeornotobe
Well, I got out of ESL by the time I was a sophomore, and I had to take 10th grade English class. There, the English teacher - in her 20's, Irish - gave me difficult times. In one writing assignment, she gave me an F with 0%. I don't know if y'all are familiar with the grading system in United States, but I got a zero on the assignment. Of course, the writing was awful, but it is still hard to believe that a teacher would bluntly give zero on an assignment... Well that's one of my bitter experiences of not being able to write in English as well as I wanted to.Quote:
Originally Posted by hannah_arendt
I had also bad experience with my academic teachers mostly because I had courage to express my own opinions. Polish education doesn`t prepare children to be creative. Majority of graduates has very serious problems with finding any job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tobeornotobe
If it comes to writing, I had good marks but I don`t that I won`t be able to write as a native speaker. I would like to speak, write better because I have many ideas for stories, poems etc but at the same time I am 27, work and have my own family and I don`t have much time for learning.
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Originally Posted by hannah_arendt
Is ESL somewhat similar with English for Specific Purpose (ESP)?
I speak Bahasa. I am still learning English. C:
You can talk to me in Spanish, English and French
Mine was Hungarian, both parents spoke it fluently, as did my uncle and aunt who lived with us in London, so I learned it naturally without effort. But after leaving home I gradually forgot much. How to respond to the poll? English was my main language as it is now.
No, it is my second: Dutch is my first language.
My first Language is English, yep.
But I can also speak Spanish. :)
Nope. It's not even my second language. It's my third language.
English is my second language. I am a Serbian. :)
English is my native language.
Spanish is my first language, English my second, Italian is next on the list.
Dutch is my native language, English a good second though. I'm studying it so I should be at least somewhat capable of producing good English!
English is my first language, but after reading some of my posts on various web sites, editing stories I have written I sometimes wonder.
First language. Though I can speak conversationally in two others (latin is dead, but the conversation wouldn't be).
Second one. My native is Russian. The only problem with a second language - it is informative for me. I do not feel a style and beauty of reading on English. I would love to get this feeling of unique style from an English book. Saying that, even offensive words would not sound so offensive for non-natives as for natives, lol.
English is my only language. Know a handful of French words but not enough to have a conversation.
("...well it could be so about me..." went the goblin not so sure really, and certainly without any recollection therein, before adding "...I mean if anyone else here is anything to go by now, I imagine I too spoke babytalk first and then progressed from there to something that these adults speak now...", but the truth was that the goblin just spoke like any other goblin did, just your average everyday sort of goblin so to speak, as he looked around for the coffee machine and some friendly faces to go with it, saying "...ok, so who'll swap cabbages for kings with me, moreover who can advise me upon the exchange rate...")
English is my first Language.