I speak English. My native language is Irish.
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I speak English. My native language is Irish.
Turkish/Turetskiiy/Türkçe/Türkisch/Turco
American is my native language.....but I speak good English, also.
i can seak in a lot of the english dialects, even get the accents right(sometimes). theres hardly a difference between any of them(exept mabe the australian dilect,im not so sure :dunno: )but im also wanting to learn japanese cuase i plann to move there. o and dutch because im part dutch.(can anyone help me with those?
pinczakko~
the lontara and makasar sripts looked pretty intreresting i might think about learning those
Mine is German.
YES this absolutely I know some kids that the father speaks spanish but can speak little english and the mother speaks english but little spanishQuote:
Originally Posted by pookie123
so the kids can speak both language perfectally!
PS my native is english I can speak some spanish but very little.
Russian.about 2 native languages: what about the children in binational families??when parents and relatives use 2 languages speaking with the child.at the beginning the child even mixes the languages and only when he is 4-5 years he can separate one language from another.Which language is native then??Both.
English would be my native tounge
First American English, Second is Ebonics.
At first I was Speaking Polish only, even in kindergarden I was speaking polish but all the kids spoke English. Then I learned English and my Polish kind of was krippled.
I understand It pretty good, but speak it somewhat well, but only can read commen words :oops:
I plan on learning Russian because I like the way it sounds and the Cyrillic looks cool.
I think it's relatively easy to learn about those scripts.Quote:
Originally Posted by traveler
In America, there are many first generation families (immigrant parents who have children born in the USA) from countries that don't speak English. Where I'm from, there are many people that come from Spanish speaking countries such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. The children that are born in the USA and have parents from their home country have two native languages, and I have many friends in this situation. They speak perfect Spanish from growing up with their parents, and speak perfect English from growing up in an English society.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterAdmin
As for myself, American English is my native language. I understand some Latin, Spanish, and French, but would rather focus on learning Russian. :)
are you from an Ghaeltacht?Quote:
Originally Posted by irisheyes
are ye' from the Gaelt
Spanish
My native language is Austrian German! :P
The other languages I learned or at least tried to learn are English, Russian, French, Spanish, Latvian, Czech, Croatian and Latin - but I would say that I am only fluent in English and Russian... :(
Yea, you make a good point about being fluent at speaking languages... after I learn russian and german, then I'm going to focus on being fluent on this learned languages (Italian, Russian, German)... and I think I do just fine with english ;-)... I'm thinking about joining a conversational club here in my city...Quote:
Originally Posted by Agnessa Ivanovna
Being fluent for me means far more than "only" the four basic language skills speaking, writing, listening and reading - so e.g. to be able to skimm/scan through a text, searching for the relevant information or to be able to respond to what other people said, depending on the relation you have (like ты/Вы in Russian).
But then I found out for myself that I can`t alsways be perfect and fluent in all the languages I actually want to learn, but that I should be really pleased with what I`ve learned so far:
e.g. I attended a special, so-called "Czech through Russian"-course at my university, which concentrad more on the receptive than on the productive skills - which is really fine too! :wink: Basing on the Russian we students knew, we compared the two Slavic languages to then profit from the similarities and to, on the other hand, be aware of "false friends". Now I can`t speak Czech very well, but I do get along with a written text (knowing how to use the dictionary effectively and where to look up the grammar). So for me this practical knowledge is of any use :!:
And if I ever want to go on studying Czech I have at least a good and stable basis... :D
American English, but I can skim through material in Spanish very quickly. I also think Cyrilic is cool, but don't understand much of it.
Greek.
Native Language: Emotion :o Since I STILL remember living in Poland, going to Britan, travelling through Ukraine and settling in Russia 2 years prior to my adoption by some pretty American lady I'd have to say..... no comment. :-D. The bumped her head theroy still seems to be an option.
Such is my truth. It happens. But I honestly can't say Americanish is my first language because I just plain don't remember it that way.
Then again, my Americanish father WAS in american airforce so maybe I just picked up subliminally on some cold war affairs. Dunno-couldn't tell yah! This forum still rocks. I am so happy to be here-single best instruction I coulda found to reach self-realization. I am in no hurry and savor every moment.
OK. Crazy out.
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Excellent post about being fluent! Gotta write about that topic, it's very interesting!
My real native language has to be my mother tongue - a dialect called Maithali but the official language here is Hindi. I learnt Hindi and English together though but English is used more than both Maithali or Hindi!
My real native language has to be my mother tongue - a dialect called Maithali but the official language here is Hindi. I learnt Hindi and English together but English is used more than both Maithali or Hindi!
My mother tongue is French.
I studied English as a second language at school, and then Russian as a third language.
My native language is Dutch but I speak and write English very well. I also learned French and German on school. I can understand both of those languages but it's not fluent at all , and I really don't use them. I started to learn Russian for 2 days now. I have Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone but I hate the Rosetta Stone program. I looks so damn cheap... :lol:
Pimsleur is fine except that I don't have a book with the phrases they speak in it , so I won't learn how to read/write with it. Couldn't find it either....
Also I need to find the New Penguin Course for Russian. But hey , I'll learn it! 8)
Russian
My mother tongue is [b]catalan[/b].
Also my native language is spanish, but I feel more confident with catalan.
Backwoods hillbilly.
Russian. I wish it was possible that one could have two first languages. It would be good fun.
English, although I wish it were Cajun French. It's so much cooler than english...
Russian, also fluent in english, and some Japanese to get by.
Mijn moedertaal is Nederlands! :)
My mother tongue is Dutch!
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I think it's possible to have more 'native' tongues; what if your mother was born in -let's say- Hungary and your father in China? If they teach you their mother tongues you're raised bilingual and you have more than one native tongue. :)
Good ol' Southern American!
Although I dable in Spanish (have developed an accent that's a cross between Argentinian and Spanish), German (my "Father" tounge, and by that I mean that my great great grandfather on my Dad's side was native German), French, Italian, Hebrew, and I'm currently trying to teach myself Romanian and Russian (which I think are the two most beautiful languages in the world).
My native language is English.
Some people rightfully can claim to have multiple native languages. Some countries such as Canada and Switzerland have multiple official languagesthat everybody grows up learning. Other people are immersed in it from day one at home. In my area, everybody learns English, but most kidfs also are trained to speak perfect Polish and they switch between the two all the time at home.
Yeah, I cite Romania. It has 3 national languages (and, from what I understand, 4 in the Transsylvannia (spelling) district): Romanian, Russian, and Hungarian (with German being the 4th).
AFAIK Romanian is the only national language in Romania. Hungarian language probably has some official status in Transylvania, because of its large Magyar (Hungarian) population. But Russian? :roll: In Romania it is spoken only in small communities of Russian Old Believers (староверы) - that is less than 1% of the population.
I'm sorry, I stand corrected on the Russian (some site I found several years ago had it listed, but now most of the sites I've seen only list Romanian, Hungarian, and German). I've also found that I was wrong about the "officialness" of the other two. It turns out that Romanian is the only nationaly recognised language, but the other two minority languages have acheived official status on the local level in a large number of comunities.
My native language is German.