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my native language is the arabic , english is a good language it is flexible and practical language but it it has so wide vocabulary , i have been learning english since about ten years but my level in english is still humble.
(by the way dont forget logos that the native english speaker are responsible for the bad english on the net they me to write u instead you and 2 /to and cuz /cause etc
My native languages are Danish and Norwegian. I learned Indonesian before i learnt English... so i suppose, it's my fourth language...?
Wasn't Goebbels the Nazi minister of propaganda? That would explain that preference for blue eyes...and actually the topic of the play is kinda fitting...Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Seis
Btw (off topic...) I saw on tv that Miss World...and to me she looks more Arabic than anything...or even South American... she has that kind of features... maybe she has different origins than Icelandic...
My first language is Tagalog. Karay-a (one of the many dialects in the Philippines) is my third language.English is my second - I've been surrounded by it my entire life. Even though our country only has English as our second language, you'll find that the language is everywhere - media, school, slang.
It makes me sad, though, that I haven't seen a single post in this thread that says their mother tongue was Tagalog.
PS. I admire people who can speak five or more languages. I'm trying to learn French and Spanish, but I never have the time to take lessons.
PPS. I'm a new member here, and so far, this is my first serious post *grins proudly* =D
Welcome to the forums commasplice :)
I'm sure it's just a matter of time before there is someone else here who speaks tagalog as first language, there is a huge variety already.
My mother tongue is Polish, although I started learning English when I was 3, so sometimes I feel as if it was my native language. Especially as my studies are in English as well. Sometimes I'm fed up with it :D
Norwegian only hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Chava
nice idea this poll,i speak 2languages.
Hello to the newbies :)
The language of Puskin, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky!
There are more veeery good authors :)))
My mother tongue is German. Living very close to the French border, French was my first foreign language. Second was Latin (I actually loved it, contrary to the prevailing opinion in this thread :D), and the third was English. I have also started to study Italian, but I'm so bad at it :blush: , in fact I can't even understand a dialogue or such, because Italians speak so fast! :D
As many of my friends are the children of immigrants, I know a few basic sentences in Turkish, Russian and Danish. My grandma being Dutch, I'm able to understand that language as well and I would love to really learn it, as I can't write anything..aw, so little time! :(
I think languages are one of the most fascinating aspects of one's culture and I reckon it very sad, that every day there's a language/a local dialect dying somewhere because there are just too few people who feel inclined to pass on their original language as a heritage to their children growing up in the 'modern world'.
Besides I adhere ridigly to reading books in the language they were written (as long as I'm able to...). - Translation is theft! ;)
A little bump to first page because there are lots of newbies lately :)
Well I have spoken English all my life and I still don't understand a lot of chat or text speak, I find it a bit annoying :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ibsen
I wish I was good at languages. I was homeschooled for most of my education prior to university so I never learned a second language .. I'm English speaking through and through.
Pasternak is Russian as well, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex E Art
Liked Dr. Zhivago, nice little tale.
Well, if we now put it this way, I might as well say I come from the same country as the author of the book that the movie "Eyes Wide Shut" was based on. And no it is not Kubrick. He only did the screenplay adaptation.
I tend to not mention my native tongue because I know for a fact that some people who are English native speakers -one can easily distinguish these learned types lol- like to correct me while indeed they are wrong without their knowing it.
Plus they want to impose their English on me, which is either American or British. They won't see that I couldn't care less if I mix both at times and choose the one that appears to be best suitable to a certain situation and closest to my first language. Also I'm sick of being told that I have an accent while those telling me have a tiny vocabulary that features such big words and phrases like "Dude" and "Where'ya at?"