What is your mother tongue ?
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friendshipz
The A alliance
- 3 Apr 2008
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first lang is english and my mother tongue is chinese and comes with a few dialect as well =D.
- 11 Apr 2008
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My first language is English. But I have chinese ancestry so I think it should be my main language, in fact my English is better than my chinese. I am living in Thailand for a decade so my third is Thai, and I am learning Japanese at the moment, so nihon-go is fourth.
- 27 Apr 2008
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My mother tongue is Finnish.
And my English.. Well it's not so good but I hope everyone will understand me
And my English.. Well it's not so good but I hope everyone will understand me
Yukiko chan
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- 18 May 2008
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My native language ? Quite difficult to answer, since I live in a region marked with multilingualism.
Here in Morocco, the daily life language is Darija or Moroccan dialect. It's a mixture of Berber, Arabic, French, and Spanish ... the percentage of each depending on the region, the educational level, the person you're talking to, etc...
The official language is Arabic, but that's just a formality if you want my opinion. It's used for religious purposes (in mosque speeches, or for prayers), in primary schooling and high school, and as an intellectual language for some; but very rarely for daily communication.
French is the academic language. It's used at universities and colleges, and as an intellectual language for some. It can be used more often than Arabic for communication purposes (among ordinary people, or for some official matters).
Spanish is also used by merchants in north Morocco, but I've met some people who spoke it among family members or friends. It's also the intellectual language for some, but they're a minority compared to Arabic- or French-oriented intellectuals
Berber is the the language of the original settlers who came to Morocco more than 23 centuries ago. It's still spoken as a mother language by fairly a great number of people, but rarely written or used for academical purposes.
As for me, I consider French as my mother language, because it's the one I feel the most comfortable with, and thus I use it most of the time to think, to write, etc... but I use Darija to communicate with most people too...
Here in Morocco, the daily life language is Darija or Moroccan dialect. It's a mixture of Berber, Arabic, French, and Spanish ... the percentage of each depending on the region, the educational level, the person you're talking to, etc...
The official language is Arabic, but that's just a formality if you want my opinion. It's used for religious purposes (in mosque speeches, or for prayers), in primary schooling and high school, and as an intellectual language for some; but very rarely for daily communication.
French is the academic language. It's used at universities and colleges, and as an intellectual language for some. It can be used more often than Arabic for communication purposes (among ordinary people, or for some official matters).
Spanish is also used by merchants in north Morocco, but I've met some people who spoke it among family members or friends. It's also the intellectual language for some, but they're a minority compared to Arabic- or French-oriented intellectuals
Berber is the the language of the original settlers who came to Morocco more than 23 centuries ago. It's still spoken as a mother language by fairly a great number of people, but rarely written or used for academical purposes.
As for me, I consider French as my mother language, because it's the one I feel the most comfortable with, and thus I use it most of the time to think, to write, etc... but I use Darija to communicate with most people too...
My mother language is indonesian. Aalmost at the same level is balinese (since I'm living in bali, hearing balinese everyday makes me understand balinese as if my mother language).
I learn english at school, I can speak english more than a little....
Currently I'm learning japanese, most of them are self learning, so I still speak japanese only a little.... ^^
I learn english at school, I can speak english more than a little....
Currently I'm learning japanese, most of them are self learning, so I still speak japanese only a little.... ^^
kimmikochan
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- 18 Jun 2008
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in singapore most people are bilingual. most of the time we speak english and chinese.
this is what everyone thought. but in actual fact, we speak singlish.
this is what everyone thought. but in actual fact, we speak singlish.
- 27 Jun 2008
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My mother tongue is Dutch
Latvian - absolutely native, Russian - almost native (that's second language in our country), english, some german and a little bit of italian
There's always something to learn and that's great because knowledge is the world's greatest thing ever.
I see that you speak many languages but as I can see, you're only bilingual because you still don't speak german and italian same as a native language...
TRI-lingual. Latvian + Russian + English. Hopefully I know these at least good enough to have no problem in every day conversations
Thanks.
And now, do you want to learn French? lol
If you want a big challenge, you can try to learn my language... it is 100 times harder than most of languages you're already speaking or learning... lol
janisce
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- 1 Jul 2008
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Oui !!
I am more then sure of it
I have tried "to learn" a bit of french using Rosetta Stone, but as soon as I realised that there are actually two separate french languages FOR ME - one is that is written and the other spoken one, and it soooo hard to tie these things together, I quitted this 
There is one thing you have said and something very different that is written on paper. That's from a my point of view of typical close-to-latin-language user Ok, these talks might be out of topic already.... Sorry, I think this thread was supposed to be more introductory then discussion of different languages.
wellwell2006
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- 1 Jun 2008
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French and I learned english at work .
