Thread: What's your native language?

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Native Language: Emotion 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. . 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.

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...
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!

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? 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.