Is english your first language?
| English is my first language | 138 | |
| I'm fully bilingual (or multilingual) | 44 | |
| No, but I speak it to mother tongue standard | 32 | |
| No, I'm still learning it. | 18 |
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SoccerStud88
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boredtodeath0_0
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pixie_dust
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pixie_dust
i'm fluent in spanish and english, and I've been an interpreter for 14 years.
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Dizzee
English may be my first language, but I want to learn German soooo badly. Either German or Spanish or maybe even both? That would be so awesome.
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freshtothedeath
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anarchy-is-glory
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dappled
Sure is. I know bits of other languages but none enough to say I'm fluent. I'm like this with everything. I know a bit about most things, but not enough to be good at any of them.
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[Old Memory]
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boredtodeath0_0
English is not my first language
but I'm good at it 'till I went to Canada and start learning French
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BLAh81
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charli.m
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kelili
Not my first language. I speak three languages and i am rather proud of it. I am now learning german but it's hard
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o_0
its my second or rather third language..though there is none in my family to speak to me fluently in English.but as I'm deeply interested in it and have close association with it so can speak in much better way... here speaking English is one of the impressive and good things so PROUD TO KNOW IT...
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Wambo37
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Quiblum
What if you`re multilingual and speak it as well as you would a mother tongue both? And where`s the option other?
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CheekyChihuahua
It is my second language, but it might as well be my first since I think in English and I know it even better than my native language.
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justanordinarygirl
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koko91
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UliNalaMansae
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FocoUS
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Smartasscookie
Although I learnt English second, I'd still count it as my first language because its the one I'm most fluent in, I'm bilingual
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dappled
I've always thought your written English is pretty much flawless. It was a surprise that it's not the first language you learnt. Which language do you dream in?
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Smartasscookie
I dream in pictures =) and think in English, I learnt English when I was 5 so I don't have an accent, its so much easier to learn when you're small. If I ever have a kid, I'm going to talk to them in a multitude of languages!
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dappled
One of our psychologists told me that the part of the brain which processes language develops from about 18 months and tapers off after age ten (because that's when we need to learn most). After that, it gets steadily harder to learn a new language.
Weird, isn't it, that most school pupils learn a foreign language at school only after the age of 11. We should be teaching languages to primary school kids.
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Smartasscookie
Is that the 'critical stage' the period where you can learn to communicate using language, backed up by case-studies of so called feral children?
I caught on with English in a year, I learnt French for five years and struggled, I kept mentally translating everything back into English whenever anyone spoke :/
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dappled
I did five years of French too and learnt nearly all the French nouns using flashcards so I do associate the French word with the object without having to translate in my head. But numbers kill me. I always think in English and it's a grind to translate.
Oh, something interesting. One of the English soldiers in the First World War decided to stay on in France afterwards (I think he'd fallen in love). Some newspaper decided to interview him in the 1970's so they sent their journalist only to discover he'd "forgotten" how to speak English.
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JuneB
You dream in pictures? That's cool :) I've dreamed in gifs before, but not just pictures
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[Old Memory]
Technically. My parents made me stop speaking French when we first came here and I picked up English instead.
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[Old Memory]
Yep. I know Spanish about 70% fluently and bits of other languages. I want to learn French, Portuguese and Italian one day.
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Crisp
My first language was Baby Gobbledygook..l was very good at it..it is the only language where drooling and blowing bubbles with your mouth or nose is allowed in public. I speak a few languages now, not all perfectly, but I get along. Travel is a great teacher.
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