What is your mother tongue ?

What languages do you speak at native or near native level ?


  • Total voters
    1,592
All the English is belong to me.

English is my mother tongue, i know only scraps of german, and my japanese is improving.

If i get japanese down i will be happy, i suck at languages.
 
my mothertongue is Indonesian....not so fluently English and a bit of Japanese :p
 
Well my mother tounge is English and my father tounge is german.😊
I also can read a little bit of Latin if that counts^^
 
Native language is Dutch.
I can speak English pretty good.
I can speak German pretty well, I can understand it better.
I can speak French for a little.
And I am learning Finnish :)
 
my mother tongue is bulgarian;
and now i speak english; it works fine;
in fact there are numerous advantages to being able to comunicate in various ways;
chemistry for example..........
 
italian, but i lived in uk for more than 13 years, and now i live in japan, and a spek a good japanese.

merry christmas
 
my native is Latvian, near native is Russian and i speak in English pretty fluently (and read fluently of course) :)
 
My mother tongue is German, but I also speak English at a high level. I'm also struggling with Japanese, but it'll take a few months until I get the hang of it...
 
If I can fathom the poetry of another language, I have a closer sense of its meaning. I also tend to remember it . The new words then have new weight and value.
 
My mother tongue is a muscle in her mouth which allows her to taste food and lick stamps...or maybe I misunderstood the question
 
I can speak and understand swedish and english.
But I have to say the poll options are rather weird.
Danish and Swedish are way too different.
Norwegian can be understood by both danes and swedes,
but danish can't be understood by swedes.
If there's one language to be called 'scandinavian', then it sounds most like swedish.
The written languages are easily understood, but the accent in denmark is just way beyond that. 😊
 
Natively-speaking I speak English (with a much-too-thick Boston accent, I'm told), though I am learning Japanese, Spanish and American Sign Language for the time being. I LOVE language! 😊
 
I am Sino Malaysian who is an Australian citizen but I now live in Europe. I honestly don't remember how to speak Malay as I went to Chinese school when I was a kid in Malaysia and Malay was only a language learnt in school. I never used it at home or with friends since they were all Chinese. Furthermore I had move to Australia since I was 12 and I never used that language anymore. Besides a few words I don't remember much, not enough to make a conversation in Malay anyway.

Due to the evolutions in my life I now speak English and Mandarin (Chinese) fluently, and fairly westernised. I have learnt Japanese before. I understand some Japanese, mostly written not spoken (this is probably because I never had the opportunity to practice the language). I am currently living in France and learning French, I can only speak a little; again I can comprehend better in written version, probably because around 40 percent of the English words came from French words.
:haihai: :148: :33: :128:
 
Last edited:
Mother tongue is English and it is the only language I can speak well. I can speak a little Japanese and Spanish.
 
My brain seems to have space for 2 languages....I learnt an African language when I was a kid so with English I was bi-lingual. But then I learnt swahili and my first African language was gone. Then when I learnt French my swahili was gone ...now my Japanese replaced my French !
 
my mother language is Lithuanian ^_^ it's very hard to learn even for lithuanians =]
 
First was English. After leaving HK (Dad was posted for a few years), I learned to speak Tagalog in a few days fluently. I do understand some Fookien and Mandarin and I could speak them, but not fluently. As for Japanese, probably some kanji since I have Chinese roots.
 
my mother tongues are english and spanish. Even thought i learned spanish first i'm forgetting it little by little.
 
My mother tongue is dutch and english is sort of my second language. I should also be able to speak french and german. But especialy my french is really bad😊 I can understand a bit of german but i'm really no good at french
 
Back
Top Bottom