Your First Language? Options

[Wi-Ta]

German as mother tongue
Learned English in school.
Speaking Netherlands.

[Hans-Kristian]

My first language is Norwegian. I also understand Swedish and Danish.
My second is English, I learned English from school, Internet, games and also from when I was in the USA. However, I am not very much in to languages so I don't hear/read much different between British English and American English.
My third language must be German, that is because we have to learn a third language in school. (Ich kann nicht viel Deutsch)

[Tilum]

Proper English for me. Colour not color. Learnt French and Spanish but most of it is long gone.
~ Tilum

[CodeCat]

I speak Dutch and English natively, was taught German and French in school. My French is incredibly rusty but I can still have a decent (though probably messy) conversation in German. I'm currently teaching myself Swedish, in which I can have a basic convo if I have a dictionary nearby (just ask Liten, who I volunteered to be my personal coach). I also taught myself little bits of Icelandic, Finnish, Polish, Old English, Old Norse (if you know Icelandic you know Old Norse, pretty simple) and Gothic.

[Razven]

Well, the poll gets both a yes and no from me. I pretty much learned both English, Cantonese and Tagalong at the same rate when I was a kid due to a Filipino maid. However, now I don't remember a word of Tagalong but I've picked up enough Mandarin/Putonghua to hold my own in a conversation. An added bonus is that the written format of the Chinese language is largely the same between Cantonese and Mandarin.

I learned French at some point but that's all escaped my brain. My Spanish friends are making me learn Spanish but the only phrase I can still say is "LE PUTA MADRE." I think I like speaking English the most...

I also speak Canadian, Singlish and lolcats.

[Sgt. Damien]

I'm from The Netherlands, so my first language was Dutch. Born in a city named : "Zwolle" and now I live near Amsterdam .

[Algermmon]

Born in the UK and like Razven currently resides in Hong Kong. First learnt Cantonese but I speak English way better. Illiterate in Chinese as well. Learning French.

[Mylo]

German as mother tongue, English as my first and Spanish as my second foreign language.

Mr. Mylo

[Wi-Ta]

My monther tongue is German. Due to English friends, English forums and an English intensive course in school, my English has improved a lot. Now I am fluent in spoken and written English. Furthermore I have a knowledge of Spanish and learn it in school. The small bit of French is not worth to list.

Mylo

German as mother tongue, English as my first and Spanish as my second foreign language.

Mr. Mylo

[Shiro]

I c wut u did thar On a more serious note, seems he just forgot his last post.

[Wi-Ta]

No need to be serious.
I find this funny

[Mylo]

... Damn I really failed hard here. We should all forget that and go back to topic^^ I can'T see anyone who speaks russian?

Mylo

[NergiZed]

I know a few people that speak Russian; from what I've heard, it's a really tough language to learn.

[partyzanPaulZy]

- except of other Slavic nations,
for other Slavics it's the easiest big language to learn because of many similarities.

Even that German was hard (much harder than English) for me as it has more different grammar system - only nominativ, genitiv, dativ and akusativ (no vocativ, no locative, no instrumental), all nouns start with big letter...

I can't even imagine how hard is Arabian, Chinese or Swahili...

[Shiro]

Some people say that German and Japanese are the hardest to learn languages existing. However, I agree that Japanese is very hard. As for German, I cannot say since I am German myself.

[Kichō]

I can't even imagine how hard is Arabian, Chinese or Swahili...

Depends on which Chinese language since Chinese itself is not a language.

[Frostyarmy]

ALL ENGLISH , Nothing else....

[alax]

I wasn't intending to offend anyone. It just frustrates me. I've always though the first American settlers were somewhat dyslexic because I can't understand how simple things like 'colour' and 'centre' can be lost. The US seem to think they own the world, but forget that without Great Britain there would be no America.
I'm a patriot. I don't mean to offend people I am just proud of my country and my language. Although that is turning out to be illegal in my country T.T
Before Gordon Brown took over it was illegal to fly the Union Flag >.<

Anyways I mean no offence. I'll change it if anyone has any major objections.

[/offtopicrant]

It pretty cool that everyone here is from a diverse background. I wish I could learn Russian.

without the british we would not exist BUT without US you would probably be speaking German right now ... hope i dont need to explain

My first language is English, naturally, but also took some German in High School.

that makes two

Some people say that German and Japanese are the hardest to learn languages existing. However, I agree that Japanese is very hard. As for German, I cannot say since I am German myself.

german isnt that hard the majority of the english language comes from latin greek and german
of course my dads side of family originally came from germany if im not mistaken

[NergiZed]

- except of other Slavic nations,
for other Slavics it's the easiest big language to learn because of many similarities.

Even that German was hard (much harder than English) for me as it has more different grammar system - only nominativ, genitiv, dativ and akusativ (no vocativ, no locative, no instrumental), all nouns start with big letter...

I can't even imagine how hard is Arabian, Chinese or Swahili...

Mandarin Chinese has prolly one of the simplest grammar out of all the languages I know. The hard part are memorizing the characters and pronouncing them. Overall, I find it the easier to learn out of my two first languages, even though I'm clearly better at my English. (I don't use my Chinese enough.)

[Vidar]

German language for me here...english second...now learning dansk

[Lord Atlantis]

English.

[Cobretti]

Mandarin Chinese has prolly one of the simplest grammar out of all the languages I know. The hard part are memorizing the characters and pronouncing them. Overall, I find it the easier to learn out of my two first languages, even though I'm clearly better at my English. (I don't use my Chinese enough.)

I tried learning Japanese a while back...grammar wasn't too bad, memorizing kanji/hanzi could be fairly difficult, and vocab was tricky because for the most part there were no cognates.

I know a few people that speak Russian; from what I've heard, it's a really tough language to learn.

Yea, Russian is one of the most difficult languages to learn (at least for English speakers). Didn't stop me from taking it in school (and I'm not doing too poorly at it either).

This post has been edited by DerKrieger: 14 Sep 2009, 1:25