Is English your first language?

[Aunty-lion]

I speak dhivehi...I started learning english at an early age though...four or five I think
Dhivehi is actually one of the languages on the verge of extinction....strange that...You would think that only animals are in danger of extinction....but it seems languages do too

Please excuse my ignorance Lamiq, but what country/people does the language of Dhivehi belong to?

I am currently learning Maori, the indigenous language of my country. It used to be considered a language on the verge of extinction, but it's had a bit of a revival (yay!) and more and more people are fluent thesedays. Me too soon I hope.

[Madhuri]

Please excuse my ignorance Lamiq, but what country/people does the language of Dhivehi belong to?

I checked on the net (YAY Google )and found that it is of Maldives and also spoken in Lakshadweep, India.

[Aunty-lion]

Thanks Madhuri.
My cousin in law is from the Maldives so I should have known that!!

[Ab'lo]

My first languages:
1. TOK PISIN 2. KOWAI 3. BARIM.

English is my fourth, but my primary language of every day communication as it is the official language of our country. (I have studied it for some 14 years.)
We have here 845 languages in my country of 5 million people.

[ElissaDido]

English isn't my first language. Here in the Philippines, almost each region speak a different language that may or may not resemble other languages in the country. My first language would be Waray-Waray. I also speak our national language, Filipino and of course, English. As I'm starting college, and they're teaching French, I expect I can speak that as well by the end of the year.

[Elly_blue]

I was raised bilingual with BOSNIAN AND DUTCH. Later on, i learned GERMAN and ENGLISH at school. But English is by far my favourite language, because I grew up watching english movies and cartoons. I sometimes even think in english.

[Kain Legin]

English is not my first language. Arabic is my tongue language but English is my favourite so it's the language I write with and study with at college. I learned English by translating books and reading poems and other stuff, so it is in my opinion the best language in the world. ^^

[GrayFoxDown]

English is truly my first and native language...that is, the Brooklyn, NY version of it (over which there was and still is heated debate in regard to its purpose in this world).

[ivy1229]

hi, everybody!
firstly, i'm not a english speaker. guess?----i'm Chinese
it's amazing for me to see so many various language speakers at just one time, though not face to face, I can still feel the distinces between each of us is not long, as we are all here speaking in the same language---English!
so, what a wonder the language is! by the way, i'm also learning Deutsch for the second foreign language.
anyway, i hope each of us would have a good time everyday!

[quasimodo1]

Yes, English first. Wish German was my second. Have absolutely minimum contact with a year of conversational German, mostly forgotten. Now I find myself fascinated with some German and French writers and translations with quality and pinache are all I can hope for at this point. By the way, do you know enough German to attempt translation of Deutche Poetry? again, welcome, quasimodo1

[ivy1229]

Yes, English first. Wish German was my second. Have absolutely minimum contact with a year of conversational German, mostly forgotten. Now I find myself fascinated with some German and French writers and translations with quality and pinache are all I can hope for at this point. By the way, do you know enough German to attempt translation of Deutche Poetry? again, welcome, quasimodo1

Thank you for your attention! it's sweet to me...
I'm glad to here again, with my new name and new image! zhang is my Chinese family name, and Ivy is my English name, so I just combine the two parts together.
i'm not sure where do you come from, maybe America? so i hope you will tell me and also that you can give me some advice on my English.
i'm sorry that maybe i'm not good enough to attempt translation of Deutsch Poetry, as i have only learned the basic reading and writing! but i'll study harder and learn better before my graduation!
again, wish all of you happy and healthy

[quasimodo1]

My Chinese is non-existant. If you can ask about English, in English, I can help. Anytime. quasimodo1

[kiz_paws]

Welcome, Ivy! I think your written English is great, and think it is very admirable for you to be learning even more languages (German). I tried to learn German and did not get very far. For that matter, I tried to learn Icelandic, too, and that was even more difficult. Oh well, it is all in the trying. My French is not too bad, though, which is a good thing when living in Canada. Take care,

[Elly_blue]

I tried to learn Icelandic, too, and that was even more difficult. Oh well, it is all in the trying.

Wow...Icelandic? I heard on tv that Icelandic is one of the most complicated languages in europe. It's great to try and learn as many languages as possible (or at least some usefull phrases and words). You never know, it can be usefull sometimes.

[Video Drone]

My first languages were Russian at home and Ukrainian at school, then when I was about 10 I came to US and started learning English. But Ukrainian is my favorite language.