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

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.

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Originally Posted by Tobeornotobe

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.

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Did you have many problems in participating "regular" classes?

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Originally Posted by hannah_arendt

Did you have many problems in participating "regular" classes?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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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Is ESL somewhat similar with English for Specific Purpose (ESP)?

I speak Bahasa. I am still learning English. C: