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Yeah I agree with you. My mother tounge is Serbian, I fluently speak English, I am an energetic learner of Dutch, but even though I take lessons in Spanish, I really don't like Spanish at all and I know how to speak only a small portion of it (no offense to anyone that's Spanish here, I really love your country and people).Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
not so many English-speakers users :eek2: (i won't be so blamed for all my mistakes maybe!) I speak French but i'll hope some day I could speak English fluently (and Spanish, German, Russian...)
I never realized such a large proportion of Lit Net do not have English as their mother tongue. In the 19th Century & to some extent today, the British have been a bit arrogant in assuming everyone should learn our language & it was to a large extent only by a quirk of history, that it came about as being the main international language. Its even more unfair that wheras languages such as French & German have basic rules of logic in their make up, English is riddled with exceptions to the rule.
Hmm, hard to say. My first language is definitely Japanese -- I couldn't speak English until seven years ago -- but I guess I use it the most. I speak Japanese with my family, Chinese in the city (I live in Beijing) but speak English with my friends.
I read half of Harry Potter in English and the other half in Japanese :cool:
pretty interesting.. and amazing, too. I myself don't speak English perfectly and voted 'no', but all here seemed to be so fluent in English, I never would have guessed more than half of the people have other languages as their mother tongue!
I picked yes since my parents are both anglophones and it is the language I prefer to use. However, I did my primary education in French and work in French as it is the language of the majority here in Montreal.
Also, your English is just fine Sam. The important thing is to make yourself understood.
Hi! I'm Brazilian, and my motherlanguage is Portuguese.
no, my first languige is chinese. I hope in the future I can have my english novel. do you like china item article?
My first language is Serbian. My fifth, that I am currently learning, is German. Mindbogglingly beautiful.
I'm actually from Norway and therefore norwegian was the first language I learned.
The reason why I voted yes when asked if my first 'real' language was English is quite simple.
I didn't begin to learn any english before I was eight (the norwegian school system) but after a few years I began to read english books, and from then on I was completely taken.
Today, Reading 'is' my life. I almost always (with the exception of school related literature) read books in english. I read a lot, and all my other hobbies are in english.
English was for me the first 'real' language in my life - literature :nod:
My mother tongue is Italian but I grew up in a bilingual family. The only problem: my parents used English as their secret language when they didn't want me and my brother to understand...
So my English is not as ay ay ay as it should be, but I like to read books in English.
hey :) nope..my mothertongue is greek but I really enjoy reading books in english.. well sometimes i have to either I like or not (I usually like it:P) since I am studying english literature:P
My mother togue is Chinese.
first language is Chinese..learn English for some years and now i'm learning German~only for some day~~
I have learned English much late and I am a late bloomer. I have a passion for it and since it is an international language with large numbers of people speaking it internationally I chose to use it as my medium of expressions. Today I know fairly workable English and now through it I have made friends with people from all over the world and I can read great literature written in this beautiful language. I know Nepali is an equally beautiful language with a richer grammar and semantic structure but what allures me to this language is I can be global and transcend all boundaries, geopolitical, cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic and the like. I do not believe in narrow geopolitical and national sentiments. I am rather anarchic when it comes to writing and I do not consider Nepal my home when I write and feel that I can be at home everywhere with peoples of all nations and cultures.
Therefore I read books in English despite the fact that my English is too poor and I know it is premature to express some complex ideas, yet the passion in me is too strong. I am a dreamer and hope one day I can writer with efficiency at par with the rest of writers in English