What is your mother tongue ?

[Maciamo]

I would like to know what you consider to be your native language or any other language you speak as fluently. In my case, I would say both French and English.

 

[Uncle Frank]

SAD & EMBARASSED TO SAY...

like many Americans, I have not even been able to get
English mastered. I have always envied people who have the ability to master many languages! One of the best things about this Forum is the people who make it up are
so smart & versitile!

Frank

 

[Maciamo]

Naturally, there is no need to have exceptional literary abilities when I say "speak a language at native level". Being able to express yourself fluently, read books, watch TV, etc. in that language without difficulty and without thinking or translating from another language is enough.

 

[RockLee]

My mothertongue is Dutch, but I consider myself also very good in English I learn courses in English, speak english and write english everyday (more then Dutch LOL!!!) (neck's getting thicker )

 

[EscaFlowne]

English is mine with some spanish.........sad isn't it...

 

[dreamer]

Well french and chinese here for me...I don't consider my englsih level as good...merely average among french students...

 

[Ten'shi-no-Shippuu]

My mother tongue is italian...but i started to speak french around five years of my birthday .....

 

[Golgo_13]

Japanese is the first language I spoke, but now my English is better than my Japanese.

 

[Lina Inverse]

IGerman is my native language, and I'm pretty damn good at English as well
I'm also quite good at Italian, but I wouldn't call it "near native" yet.

 

[Koppi]

English.


I want to learn German, though...:joyful:

 

[mieboy]

My mother tongue is Portuguese...But I can also speak Japanese, Spanish, English and a little bit of Italian...But I wanna study Latin...Its not usefull...but I think its very interesting...

 

[chiquiliquis]

English... bad English and functionaly fluent in Spanish... My Japanese has been improving since I got here (in Japan), but I think I still have a long ways to go :box:

 

[Elgin]

My mother tongue is French I'm also fluent in English and Franglais

 

[Lina Inverse]

English.

I want to learn German, though...:joyful:

Fine!
Just take a look at my German course right here in the German forum:
https://jref.com/showthread.php?t=8680

 

[Oliver]

I have mastered only English. My Japanese is far, far worse ... but I am working on that.

 

[Glenn]

Native English speaker, I guess upper intermediate Japanese proficiency level (although it was "advanced" according to one test that I took, but I think that that was just because they asked questions to which I knew the answers). Also, I'm attempting to learn Chinese (Mandarin), but it's a bit difficult to do on my own and especially difficult to do without much time.

 

[mad pierrot]

I speak Japanese like a taxi driver in New York speaks English....

 

[kirei_na_me]

*sigh* English...et je parle francais un peu...

 

[Budderfly]

My mother tongue is Englsh and I did french immersion since Kindergarten.

I'm trying to learn Japanese currently by books and I plan to take some courses in the near future

 

[Chipi]

Finnish = Suomea puhun sujuvasti..

(+english is quite good, then some swedish, a little bit of french, and _very little_ italian&japanese)

 

[thereisnospoon]

English is my mother tongue, almost native in Arabic (been learning for 12+ years) and probably kindergarten level in Japanese, Urdu, Hebrew and French (even though I did 5 years of French at school), but I've never used it so I have forgotten it all lol.

 

[Golgo_13]

But I have no idea what my mother's tongue looks like.

 

[michi]

I guess my mother tongue would be Mandarin, for that was the first language I learned to speak. Now my dominant language is English.

 

[Dream Time]

Cantonese

thats what I speak in my family and with my Cantonese friends.

 

[Buddha Smoker]

My main language is English and my second is Japanese (I'm not perfect but I'm not a beginner either....probably in the middle somewhere.)