My first language is Portuguese (There is a second language that is not english, but you people will believe it so :PP )
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My first language is Portuguese (There is a second language that is not english, but you people will believe it so :PP )
What no response to my gallantry? Guess you know that I'm too old for a toyboy and ro bhochd for a sugardaddy. But nothing ventured nothing gained as I used to say
My first language is Portuguese, but I've always been fluent in English because my mother is American. I've been picking up Spanish with some ease ever since I moved to Texas, and now I'm trying to learn Koine Greek.
All of which to say... no, English isn't my first language.
nopers. my native language is urdu :)
My first language is Dutch, and I guess my second should be French but it actually is English. ;)
I speak English as my first language.
English is my native tongue. I'm working on learning Hebrew right now. I love languages. I took French in high school. And I know some Spanish, because there are alot of Spanish speakers around where I live. I think it's amazing how people can learn so many different languages. I'll be lucky if I become fluent in more than one.
my first language is Turkish..And I know some German and English..This much...
Catalan and Spanish as my first languages :goof:
My mother toungue is Tamil(South Indian language.I have to speak English and Malayalam(another south Indian Language) at school though.And I have to study Hindi (National language at school.Thats about all the language I know.
my mother tongue is Russian.
Chinese is my first language...
so my english is not very well
Yep, English would be my first.
English. Ashame to say I had French in highschool, but hardly recall a thing now. Never could speak it either. I wish I did know other languages like most of you wonderful smart people. I have high regard for those who are biligual or know more than two.
Romanian is my first language. I started studying english in high-school and then continued throughout university. I also try and sometimes succeed in speaking italian (a language i love) and a very very little bit of French ..... but the italian got in the way so ......
Hi Moira! Romanian is a beautiful language. My best friend speaks it fluently and i want her to teach me..but we do not live in the same city anymore :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Moira
I have the impression that romanian resembles italian..am i right? I do not speak italian either but i speak english, greek(of course), french and german (i love german!).
Welcome aboard by the way!:)
Hi Manolia,Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
Yes romanian is similar to italian. Is your friend romanian?
Greece is beautiful, i've been there once foar a one week vacation and loved it.
No. She is greek but she studied romanian (language and history) in the university. I know Romania is a beautiful country too. Very green and picturesque. Definately a country i want to visit!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Moira
Da (yes) avem o tara frumoasa (we have a beautiful country).Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
You should visit it......
I love to travell too, iTunisia and Spain are on my list this year:).
Spain..I went there 3 years ago. Barcelona and Madrid. If you visit Spain you will probably not want to quit it. Spain is beautiful. So are it's people. So warm, so friendly. So many things to see there!Quote:
Originally Posted by Moira
Have a nice time!
I'm from Asia so I can speak two languages but I was born and brought up in England so I'm not sure if it is my first language or not! All I know is Im grateful that I didnt have to learn it!
guess what my first language is ?
my language is arabic..
it is my second year in learning enlish ..*_^
i learning it just 2 understand the west ..(religion ," political ,social realationships" )
I'm Dutch so English is my second language. I'm a student English teacher though so I'm fluent. I speak German as well and a bit of Spanish and French.
Hi! It's my first post. My name is Maximiliano, but is too large, so my friends call me Max.
I speak spanish in my daily life.
No, it isn't. My mother tongue is portuguese. I started learning english when I was still in primary school - didn't learn in the school itself, though. I'm basically a self taught english speaker, because one day my parents bought a computer, and got internet (oh, the old days with 56kb!). At the age of 7/8, I was this little girl running through thousands of websites dedicated to kids (you know the type..those with all sorts of silly games) - most of them in english.
Sometimes I was really annoying, asking almost uninterruptedly my parents and sister the meaning of a certain word or whole sentence.
I guess only a couple of years later I realized how playing online games and communicating with other kids in chats was important - in my school life I've always had excellent grades in English subject :).
(Recently I've tried to do the same with French, but it didn't work. I'm not smart anymore :sick:.)
It's interesting to see that the majority of people aren't mother tongue speakers. I'm not one either - my mother tongue is Afrikaans, but living in South Africa means that my English is ok. I love the language for its history and its concise and elegant way of saying things.
I'm from Georgia, so my first language is Georgian. I speak English (I've been studying it since I was 7 :D). Right now I'm studing Russian and Spanish
I love Spanish
My mother language is Arabic...
I like it very much, but I study English language and literature
and I like English too. And I hope to learn some Spanish toooo.;)
My mother tongue is Portuguese. I don't use English in my everyday life. It's useful to comunicate with people from all over the world, but I don't do it very often. I hardly ever speak the language. I've never talked to a native speaker, for instance.
I didn't expect to find so many people from different language backgrounds. I thought most of them here would be from English-speaking countries, and I would be an exception. I think I was wrong.
I'm not a native speaker either and, as ceinwyn, I thought I would be an exception, hehehe.Anyway, my mother tongue is Portuguese.Ah, I do speak spanish too.
It is hard for me to think of English as of "foreign" language. Even though I have never been schooled in English, nor have I ever visited any anglophone country - let alone lived in an area where English was spoken - nor have I grown up speaking it at home as heritage language, and despite the fact I do not get to actually speak English a lot, over the years it has crept into me so profoundly that I never quite considered it "foreign". I have been studying it since I was 4 years old, and I early began to use English as medium for reading [I have been reading books in English since I was 7-8], even as medium for thinking, and I always end up a bit shaken and surprised when I remember that it was actually not my native language.
My native languages were Croatian and/or Serbian* [* for cultural and personal reasons I do view them as separated languages, despite them being mutually intelligible] and Russian. The latter one is a complex issue, as I grew up outside of Russia I never quite reached a native-like command of it [I would even go as far to claim to be more comfortable with English than with Russian, to my great shame] and in my childhood Russian has always been that neglected "secondary" native language, something reserved for relatively small circle of people and something of sporadic use, something I de facto knew, but hardly ever used. In the recent years [at the moment of writing I am 17 years old] I have been using it more intensively [mainly through reading, as I have got perfect comprehension of written Russian], but I am yet to use it flawlessly myself.
Apart from these languages, I can also speak Italian reasonably well [years of formal education, and extensive reading in it and usage outside of the class].
Due to the beauties of solid old-fashioned classical education I am also taught Latin and Ancient Greek. I also study French and Modern Greek, but these two are the languages I would not dare to claim any command of [yet]. :)
I am a dog whisperer...
just kiddin.
English is my primary language, but I have a reasonable background in French (if people don't mind communicating a bit slower, than I'd be ok, methinks...) and a wee bit of Icelandic. I tried to learn German and I tried to teach myself Spanish with books (which turned out to be a disaster, though I did make friends with a super Venezuelan who speaks English very well)...
This place is awesome, full of such a wide variety of cultures. Yup, we rock! :)
ANDQuote:
Originally Posted by Anastasija
I had to wait until 2006. to get Zhivago on Croatian, I just didn't want to read it on Serbian; they are similar but in the essence and the sound they are so so different!
I'm not sure what my first language was, my mom told me that I used to speak a bit of Serbian(since I was born in Serbia) when I was little like at the age of one or something but I seriously can't remember at all.So to me my first langauge is English(because later in my life I moved to Canada) and it's the language I speak most of the day.
Wow. I'm really impressed that so many people have English as a second (or third or fourth) language. Not only to post intelligably (sp?) but to also read, understand, and discuss English-language classics (that are sometimes not that easy to understand even for native speakers.
I speak English as a native language, and also conversational (but not quite fluent) Spanish.
I learned (or mastered, ehh... not quite...) english in 2 years. Though I have so much to learn!
Think of the possibilities!
(perhaps, enthusiasm got me learning)
Not my first, my first language is Filipino. I am more comfortable in English though. Buuut, I sing in Mandarin and Spanish but I have no idea what they mean.:lol: My sister teaches Italian to her sisters so I know a bit.
What a great and diverse group we have. Kudos to all.
And I must say i have a fondness for those Filipino sisters. They are so charming!!
hi
my original language is arabic
nope. my original language is madrin. english is my major in university and i have touched things which are based on english, like music, movies. i favor to listen to songs, and have downloaded a huge storage in my computer. whenever i have time, i listen to the music. what a great gift, the internet brought me. enjoy music, enjoy life.