Is English your first language?

[Lord of Lorien]

My first language is Turkish.I have been learning English for 6 years but it is so embarrassing that I cannot communicate with others in English easily. As a third language I would love to learn Spanish.

[Wilhelm]

My first language is Dutch, since I'm from the northern part of Belgium. My English shouldn't be too bad, because it's what I study at uni. Of course there is room for improvement, so maybe reading/posting here can improve my proficiency.

For people who don't know what Dutch looks like:
"Het is een warm voorjaar, in de klas bidden ze voor me omdat ik al meer dan tweehonderd dagen van de wereld ben."
Something like that

[eiram_ael27]

I'm from Philippines so obviously my first language is filipino. But we consider english as our second language since it is part of our curriculum in school. English is also the medium frequently use everywhere but I'm not so fluent with it. I guess I can try. So please don't give me a hard time if there is something wrong about what I've wrote.

[ozbey]

My first language is Turkish.It is nice to learn English.But in our country learning English is a kind of necessity.Anyway...In near future i will learn Spanish...

[protagonist]

My first language is Turkish too.I like my language.I agreewith ozbey english is almost every Turkish second language...

[stephofthenight]

my first language was french...but when i was little my first word was in french and the second in german...

i eventualy leaned that its 2 diffrent languages lol i was confused as a kid i would say a ssentece in half french half german and a lil english verry amusing annoyed my parents completly

[Gänseblümchen]

My first language is german, but I improve my english and dutch. I also can speak a little bit italian, because my grandmother lives in italy. I'm really interested in languages...

[Virgil]

My first language is german, but I improve my english and dutch. I also can speak a little bit italian, because my grandmother lives in italy. I'm really interested in languages...

Welcome to lit net Ganse. I'm afraid I don't speak any German. Hopefully we can improve your english. We have several members who are from Germany.

[caffeinecups]

My first language is Tagalog/ Filipino. So glad so many others here did not grow up speaking English. And yet here we are talking about books written in English.

[RoCKiTcZa]

I am bilingual, knowing how to speak (fluently) both English and Filipino, though English was really my first language and I grew up speaking it. It was only when I started school at age six that I learned to speak the latter--I had to because most lessons were taught in the language. I can also understand some good Spanish and am very much willing to learn French. Many people would tell me that I have a versatile tongue as I speak English with what they'd call a "pure American accent" and even talk in American slang, but unlike other English-speaking people I don't carry that accent way up to the Filipino language zone and I talk just like everyone else.

[Duna]

Spanish is my first language. I started to learn English when I was three years, in the school. ^^

[loe]

My first language is German.
At school I was very good in English, but then I haven't used it for years, and now I'm really, really bad.

[farnoosh]

My first language is persian.in our school they teach Arabic,and English togather!
its so hard to speak them at the sametime of the day!!

[blazeofglory]

English is my second language. I learned it just a couple of decades ago. I wrote poems and essays in Nepali, a language I am good at, and I switched to writing in English now. Writing in English is really a tough job. I face all kinds of problems. First and foremost is mastering its grammar. I am unsure of it. I have no doubt learned a good number of words and I can manage with them. Expression also does not pose a problem despite the fact that you can not expect me now to be as good as a native speaker at expressing my thought in English. I really have to make a lot of efforts.

The one and only I chose to write in English is through it I can go across larger sections of people. Not that Nepali is not a good language. It is beautiful indeed, and even more organic than English for it is close to Sanskrit and Sanskrit is really the most scientific language as many linguists have arrived at this truth.

Despite the fact that I am so good at Nepali, and mastering English is really a very big challenge, yet I thought the challenge is worth taking as this language is getting global attention. We Asians have to learn second language to pursue higher education, and English is compulsory. Moreover it is a global language that connects us with the rest of the world. In fact it has netted us globally interconnecting, and I take this is as a positive development. After all we all are human beings and humanity is one, and there is no duality and a s such I thing English helps us to integrate globally.

I like to express things in Englsih now. But I learned English only through books, and in my part of the world communicating English is like coming upon a snake in Iceland. Yet I chose to shoulder this job.

I know I can not speak English and write in this the way a native can, and yet I am reading a lot to naturalize in Englsih.

I am an avid reader and my reading habit is in fact sharpening my skills in Englsih. I do not know how far I can go. Only time will prove it.

[Ludmila607]

My native original languaje is Spanish.I am from South America, unesfecific country situated under the capricorn tropic.I am phylosophy teacher , ready to help any student if I can(dont have the less idea if Phylosophy is included on high school studies)I like Literature and visit the Literature forums frequently.
I ve learn english through High school lessons, reading by myself and having correspondence on some foreign people.I really enjoy reading and writting in english Knowing that I have much to learn.(SEND A GOOD LOOKING TEACHER TO ME)
I enjoy music from the sixties to the new milenium(KEANE IS JUST GREAT)and try to be in touch about whats going on in music.
I recomend a music group from chile called LA LEY ... very talented.
I am ready to help students online if I can on they needs and they help me with my english in exchange.
I like to recommned the last Radio Seventeen Publication wich is a selection of new poets from all over the world made by the Royal Poetry Society.Beautiful book.
Regards from Ludmila and take a look to the Phylosophy Forums .This is a wonderful site.please!