NEW: Is English your first langauge? (Please take the poll)

I took da El to da Loop den went up nort ta see da Cubs.

Yes, English (Chicago dialect) is my first language.

:blush: HEY i m new
ma mother tongue is Hindi but i hardy read any literature in that :(

I'm new here too, English is my native tongue, one I have a habit of being either loquacious in, or a complete butcher thereof.

No, My first launguage is Tagalog. ( Filipino language ).

:)

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Originally Posted by cgrillo

English is my first and only language.

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Same here, not that I haven't tried to learn numerous other languages!

English is my second language. Spanish is my third. I don't have a first language...I really should though.

English isn't really my first language, but I forgot much of my first language after I went to school.

My mother language is Persian (farsi), and in school they taught us Arabic and English(far less than arabic)as well,I'm learning French on my own...

Polish :)

I'm told that I initially spoke total gibberish, but then picked up English as I went along.

My first language was Catalan, then Spanish and after came English

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

This is amazing: ESL/EFL speakers make 70% of the Forum population.

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I doubt it. I'll bet a higher percentage of English as a second language Literature Forum members participated in this poll than English as a First Language members. Differential participation in voluntary polls is a very common way in which the results are skewed.

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Originally Posted by Ecurb

I doubt it. I'll bet a higher percentage of English as a second language Literature Forum members participated in this poll than English as a First Language members. Differential participation in voluntary polls is a very common way in which the results are skewed.

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Seems like the results have changed since then:

Yes: 48.33

No: 51.67

Persian is my first language and then comes the English language and then Deutsche!

Well, let's see:

English is my main language, I do not know if call it my first now, even if it was the one I started talking and reading.

I can make comprehensible noises in some other languages as Spanish, Italian, French and an almost disgusting German, picked up while traveling, also I can make myself look like a windmill when I try to make myself understood with gestures!

I must recognize in shame I cannot speak Klingon despite the huge efforts put in the learning tasks!