Current Events > Is English your first language?

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English is my first and only language.

I know a tiny amount of Spanish but I can barely say any words, let alone a sentence lol <_<

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Tis. Native English, mid-to-high B1 German, high A1 Spanish

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Si senor

native english, so so german, decent spanish, poor dutch

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No
Irish is

English and Kinyarwanda around the same time, plus a little French, which I forgot.

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no but it doesn't matter because native speakers can't pronounce "clothes" either don't lie to me

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g0ldie posted...

English and Kinyarwanda around the same time, plus a little French, which I forgot.

wow i've never heard've kinyarwanda >_> that's cool

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yea, it's basically the main language in Rwanda, but I don't speak it anymore (I understand a bunch of it, though).

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No, I guess it's my fourth.
Native language is Dutch, while French and German are official languages in Belgium as well so those would be second and third.
But my English is much better than my French and German so idk.

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Yup. I took 3 years of spanish but had a really shitty teacher who just let us pass so i cant even form a sentence

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Nope
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English here, so yeah it is. Absolutely awful at every other language I've ever attempted to learn (French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, German, Greek, Polish, Dutch, Korean, Geordie and Russian).

Although I've been told by multiple people that I speak fluent Dutch when I'm sleeping, which is a bit irritating tbh. Yes, I'm one of those people who talks in their sleep all the time.

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Nope.

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No my first language was googoo gaga

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SystemEgo posted...

Absolutely awful at every other language I've ever attempted to learn (French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, German, Greek, Polish, Dutch, Korean, Geordie and Russian).

I mean...part of the problem there is probably that you haven't stuck with one :P

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Nope

Danish, then English.

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Shezarr posted...

I mean...part of the problem there is probably that you haven't stuck with one :P

Out of all them, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek, Polish and Russian were forced on me by my school (went to a Public School on a scholarship as I used to be quite clever apparently).

Swedish was because my Mum was considering moving to Sweden (she didn't) and the Dutch and Korean was due to friends moving out to Holland and South Korea respectively. Oh, and Geordie because half my Uni coursemates were from Newcastle.

If I had to choose one to stick to, it'd probably be Spanish tbh, but I need to learn by doing. I never learnt what verbs, adjectives, past-participles and all that were (my Primary School assumed it would be taught at Secondary School, and my Secondary School assumed I'd learnt it at Primary School), so when a teacher tries to get me to learn by asking what the English equivalent of the plural infinitive or whatever is, I'm completely lost.

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Yeah and probably will be the only one unless I get the travel bug. Within the US have no reason to expand into Spanish.

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SystemEgo posted...

Although I've been told by multiple people that I speak fluent Dutch when I'm sleeping, which is a bit irritating tbh. Yes, I'm one of those people who talks in their sleep all the time.

i scream in my sleep all the time
someone's gonna call the police one day i swear

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SystemEgo posted...

Out of all them, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Greek, Polish and Russian were forced on me by my school (went to a Public School on a scholarship as I used to be quite clever apparently).

7 languages in school?!

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Choco posted...

7 languages in school?!

Yeah. Like I said, it was a Public School (i.e. posh) - only place that you could buy the School uniform was Harrods :/ and I wouldn't have been able to afford the fees (well, my Mum wouldn't) if it were not for a combination of the Scholarship and Assisted Place Grant (which was means tested, which, due to our poverty, enabled us to get everything paid for; fees, uniform, school dinners (packed lunches were not allowed as there "brought down the image of the school") and travel (it cost 1,200 per term in train fares (3 month London travelcard, zones 1-6) - and this was 1991 :/).

I left Latin and Classical Greek (we were taught both classical and contemporary) out as they're dead languages, but I had to learn them too :(

It sounds kinda worse than it was:
1st Year: Only had French, German & Latin.
2nd Year: Classical Greek & Spanish joined the subjects.
3rd Year: Italian and Greek added.
4th Year: You had to choose two current languages and one dead language (I went with Latin). There were more languages to choose (all I can remember now is that Portuguese was one) & I opted for Polish and Russian as I had a friend of each nationality and felt I had a better chance of learning completely new languages than trying to grasp one of the ones I was already shit at - especially as I had people I could talk to regularly who were fluent in them. Whether I had a better chance or not is a moot point though as I was still shit at them.

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I learned English and Albanian at the same time but I'd say I'm fully fluent in English, conversational in Albanian

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