Is English your first language?

[nalty7]

Well i'm not a native english speaker.I speak Greek and i can read some French(i don't remember how to speak).I've been stydying english since i was 9.I will try my best to make myself clear when i post.I'm glad that most of people here speak another language.

[blazeofglory]

I am too non native of English. I have learned in my later years. I am a Nepali and I learned it when I was a college student. In fact I have learned English since I always want to broaden my knowledge level and in fact getting world class books in Nepali is hard. We have to read translations but all translated works are not good enough and most get distorted from the original text and that in fact compels me to learn a second language.

Initially I had to face difficulty in expressing my thoughts, particularly convoluted ideas and emotional quotients through English.
Of course I read books and write often in my native language too but today English has gained the international status.

In fact an international language is an utmost need as today the tempo of globalization has been geared up and without a second language it is really hard for us to be familiar with the international community and to go across people worldwide .

Today just having this strong tool of language I feel at home all over the world and without it I could not communicate with you on this forum across a linguistic barrier.

[Kassiopeia]

Hello everyone,

English isn't my first language. As I'm from Germany, German is my mother tongue. The first language I've learned at school was Latin, the second one was English and the third one was French. However, English is the only foreign language I speak quite fluently - although it's a little rusty these days and. I used to live in Scotland for more than 6 months and since I'm back, I didn't have the chance to speak a lot of English. So I'm glad about having found this great community as I loooove literature - AND the English language.

[Partook]

My native language is Kurdish. English is my second language and I hope to improve it. I took Spanish for 3 years, but unfortunately I didn't take it seriously. :/ I am currently studying German and I hope to become proficient in this language.

-My first post! Woot!

[Bloomy]

Hi,
My first language is Arabic. English is my second language. I study it in college and I really hate the way we are taught English. I can understand little French and I'm looking forward to learning Italian. I just fond of languages.

[mao]

I studied English for years ,but i still find my self falling into grave grammatical errors , i speak but not fluently ,because english is not my first language and i do not practice it more .i am fond with literature and i read a large number of novels in english ,but my writing still deseperate .

[Roger100]

Dutch.

[Cultivated]

I speak several languages such as Arabic, Somali, English, Dutch and Italian. However my mothertongue is Somali.

[optimisticnad]

Urm...I don't know what to say to this. My friend did her dissertatiion along this line and concluded that people like me have two first languages because we learn both at the same time more or less equally. I agree with her, English is my first language, but so is Bengali. You can have roots and wings at the same time.

[Blanket Heist]

Exclusively American English.

Gross, I know.

[cosmopolitan]

mother tongue is Bengali. but i'm an English literature student.

[clandestini]

My mother tongue is Portuguese.

[oanna]

I'm not a native English speaker... I'm speak romanian as my first language and I also speak a little french.

[Researching]

am a tamil speaker. a classical dravidian language- South India

[Brad Coelho]

I'm still working on establishing a 2nd language in 'real life!' Although if you add together the segments of poor French, Turkish & Portuguese slang and some grammatically incorrect Spanish, I may have netted one?