Is English your first language?

hallo, my mother language is Greek.


Evi

:D so your 1st toungue is greek?

Miss Tenderness,

Yeap, my first language is Greek,i also speak English and Romanian. And i can understand French, as i had French lessons for many years but o havent practised the language for years. Last May it happened to be in Paris , so it was the first time after ages that i had to remember it again.What about you? Which is your first language?

Evi

No, my mother tongue is Portuguese. :)

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Originally Posted by Evi

Miss Tenderness,

Yeap, my first language is Greek,i also speak English and Romanian. And i can understand French, as i had French lessons for many years but o havent practised the language for years. Last May it happened to be in Paris , so it was the first time after ages that i had to remember it again.What about you? Which is your first language?

Evi

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my first langauge is Arabic:) nice meeting you,Evi.

you too,Eventide:)

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Originally Posted by Wirhe

for swedish is that mandatory crap everyone is forced to swallow in finnish schools.

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Many people say that they hate Swedish because it's mandatory, but so is English, which no one really seems to hate. I don't think most of Finnish students hate Swedish because it's mandatory, it just isn't in "fashion" unlike English is.

My mother tongue is Spanish, but for my job I speak English and French most of the time.

Macedonian is my mother tongue but I also speak (not perfecly, but I can have a normal chat...) English and French. And also, Bulgarian (coz it is simular to Macedonian) and I can read on Serbian, but cant talk:)

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Originally Posted by Koa

Cool idea to have a poll, we know we are a lot of non natives but it's cool to have a percentage, even if just through a poll :D

As for me, Italian speaker...
I first started to learn English when I was 11 (before that I actually hated the sound of it) and I've always found it quite 'easy' and kinda natural...I've been using mostly it during these years of internet addiction (only this year I joined an Italian forum for the first time, it felt strange not to add English expressions at first), though I'm certainly not perfect yet...It's fun though :nod:

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LOL I know that feeling. :nod: I m dutch but I hate talking dutch online I type dubble as fast in english and got to edit all the time if I got to type in dutch as english words sneak in and only get cought when I overread my text. My online world is surely english and there my first laguage including all typo's and spelling faulths will always be english. How ever you asked after real life and in there it is still dutch.

I wonder if any of you guys knows Esperanto? :D

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I am constantly AMAZED at the sheer brainpower this site cradles.....amazing, amazing people inhabit this place ....I am truly humbled.....and this thread, as have so many others, has revealed insights into members that we may have otherwise missed. Gracias Logos. and kudos to all the little geniuses..........

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just reread this thread and thought well how true...

No,my first language is Chinese.:)

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Originally Posted by eventide

No, my mother tongue is Portuguese. :)

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you know,eventide ,I have tried to learn Portuguese last year,but failed to stick on,because I think it too difficult for Chinese ,especially for me:blush: to pronunce some of your language's sound.It's a pity.

My first language is english, but by the time I get out of school I hope to be speaking five languages: english, french, german, and I'm studying spanish (three years) and chinese (just started).

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Originally Posted by apple jiang

you know,eventide ,I have tried to learn Portuguese last year,but failed to stick on,because I think it too difficult for Chinese ,especially for me:blush: to pronunce some of your language's sound.It's a pity.

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Aw, I completely understand apple jiang. :\
For a Portuguese speaker it's very difficult to learn Chinese as well -- the differences are too great. But I do know some brazilians and portuguese who can speak it, although I'm not in the position to say if they do it correctly.
Anyway, I hope you don't give up. Maybe if you practiced it by interacting with Portuguese speakers more (you can count on me, by the way), then it would get less difficult--assuming you didn't before. I'm of the opinion that almost nothing is impossible. ;D
Good luck!