Renewing the poll since the previous one is five years old.
(Yeah, I am ageist like that.)
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Renewing the poll since the previous one is five years old.
(Yeah, I am ageist like that.)
Scots (Ma mither tongue) is sometimes considered a dialect of English rather than a language in it's own right. :rage:
Yes, more or less my only tongue.
I am wondering if the make-up of the Forum has remained the same over the years. We used to have a heavy ESL/EFL speaking population.
Italian (or maybe Neapolitan) is my first language.
My first language is Persian.:)
I would have to say - Welsh is my mother tongue, and I learnt English in primary school as a 'second' language when I was 5. I did my secondary school education through the medium of Welsh but now rarely get the chance to speak, read or indeed write it.
And there are only two members of my immediate family left who I still converse with in Welsh as all the others became Anglicised years ago.
Technically, Cantonese is my first language, but Chinese is not a language I can read or write in. So English would be the first language is which I'm literate.
danish is my first language.
Swiss-German is my first language. Started learning English at age 13.
This is amazing: ESL/EFL speakers make 70% of the Forum population.
That's only on a sample size of nineteen. You'll need quite a few more to really zero in the real percentage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
hate to do this to an engineer but...Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
5 + 12 = 17
(Oh, who am I kidding??? I have quite enjoyed that actually! :p)
I suspect hat the ratio is always biased towards ESL. Speaking English as a second language is 'more special' and hence people to whom this applies are more likely to bother taking the poll.
English is my first and only language.
My category too :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
First Afrikaans, then English...
The Styrian dialect is my first language, then German, English, French and Spanish.
Arabic is my mother language, but a kind of a village-based dialect that totally differs from the Standard-Arabic system of speaking...!!!
Native language is Irish but English is my first language.
My mother tongue is Tamil. :)
Swedish is my native tongue.
English is clearly my second language.
I am less fluent in French and German.
/Claes
My first language is turkish
Clearly my second language. My mother tongue is French but I am using French, English and Danish everyday.
Rydw i'n falch o chi. Dw i'n Saes, ond dw i'n ceision dysgu yr iaith. Mae hi'n annodd iawn, a mae hi'm amhosib ymarfer, oherwydd dw i'n byw yn Sheffield.Quote:
Originally Posted by hillwalker
Spanish is my native language.
My first language is Swedish :)
English is my only language because of the poor education system where I live not forcing me to be fluent in another.
I speak and write Norwegian, but most of what I read is in English. :grouphug:
Og akkurat nå er jeg alt for solbrent til å gå ut i det fine været...
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Originally Posted by Nyu001
Spanish also! (Mexican)
I truly find it very annoying when I try to speak because I can never find te correct words to express the way I would wanted... so its very frustrating, any of you feeling the same?
My mother tongue is Dutch, but my mom has lived in the US for a while and we often speak English. I mostly read in English, too.
I speak a little French and German ( I got that in school) and I can understand French and Spanish texts if I try really hard because I have Latin at school.
Hindi is my first language.
English is my first language. I used to be able to speak passable French (I went to school in Montreal) but I haven't spoken French in over thirty years, so it's pretty much all gone.
English is the only language in which I'm fluent, but I can say ta four different ways in Deutsch, hello in five different languages, and good day in nine.
1. English
2. Latin
3. Spanish
4. French
No it's not but its good because it was easy to learn and i know urdu, punjabi ;)
mother tongue: German
fluent/near native in English
intermediate level in Spanish (speaking and writing), although I can understand most
written texts and can also understand more spoken language than I can speak myself
passive knowledge of Latin from secondary school
I've also got a smattering of Scouse and Birkenhead-English :)
Nope, but i'm hardly trying to learn it well.
English is my third language
My first languages are Swedish and German, couldn't really tell you which I learnt first...