Your First Language? Options

[Admiral FCS]

Mandarin Chinese with Beijing accents and hints of Northeastern Chinese accents.

English is my second language. I find that both British and American accents are pretty good, though sometimes I favour/favor one over another.

I might as well learn some Star Trek technobabbles as my partial third language.

[Stalker]

My first language is German and I learned English at school. We learned British english but TBH I got my English from video games so it's probably more American.
Well, actually my first language is Austrian (German with bad accent).

[Destiny]

Either crappy Mandarin Chinese or English...I personally consider English as my first language, and so it shows on my documents. (I sorta hybridized American English (I prefer Z over S) with British )

[JJ]

My first language was Mandarin Chinese, then in preschool education my main language for some reason became English, then it reverted back to Chinese after being sent to a Chinese school, so I'm quite good in both. I'm also not bad in Malay, but that language kinda feels pointless for me to learn any better than I do now.

[ka1000]

first language is French (haven't seen that one yet). second and third are Dutch and (mostly) British English respectively. i'm a bit of a language freak so i'm rather good at speaking/writing/understanding either of them.

any other frenchies here?

This post has been edited by ka1000: 16 Jul 2009, 12:36

[SGM. Jazzie Spur...]

Spanish. D:

[DELETED MEMBER]

Spanish. D:

This, i admit i learned english by playing videogames, as back in the day when i started learning english and french everybody believed french was more important(and i didnt learned anything about french)

[Kichō]

Mandarin Chinese with the Beijing dialect as my first language, learned English through school, internet and forums.

[Wanderer]

Native language is finnish, though my english isn't bad either

[Mylo]

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

[Tupac]

I'm from Nicaragua, Asi que mi primer idioma es español, but I speak english too

[Ascendancy]

English is obviously my mother tongue.

Though I'm an American, I have tendencies to use British English as well, considering even to me it makes more sense. I'd always write that way in English class in high school and my teacher didn't seem to care much.

[Ektufall]

My first language is and will stay latvian (as baltic language tree is dying already I would like to slow that as I can) Also I can say I am more lucky as most of you who want learn russian ,I know it from childhood do to large influence of our neighbour in our country throught centuries but also from fathers family who are from belarussian heritage (belrussian -russian is as US-UK very similar yet diferent) . Must admit I know nothing in plain belarussian . English - well in school was tought the british english ,but all other influence comes from USA (games,movies ,part of songs) . Thanks to blizzard I can mimic sometimes medival akcent. I could more or less get point out of any spoken language when I hear it ,thought I know it can't know them all When I will set out to half island of Indochina hope to learn some on the way as trip will take some years by foot (thats another story)

This post has been edited by Ektufall: 17 Jul 2009, 0:53

[beefJeRKy]

first language is French (haven't seen that one yet). second and third are Dutch and (mostly) British English respectively. i'm a bit of a language freak so i'm rather good at speaking/writing/understanding either of them.

any other frenchies here?

Mon francais est plus ou moin bien mais c'est plutot ma troisieme langue si tu avais lu mon poste sur la premiere page.

[GDIZOCOM]

i first spoke tagalog....then english..
Can you understand this?

Ano ba gusto mo?

[Lord Atlantis]

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

[Shiro]

German. Learned English and French in school although there's virtually nothing left of the latter.

This. It is exactly the same for me. Although I do speak a few japanese words and sentences by now, and I will later try to learn proper Japanese.

I find that American English makes a lot more sense though, with words like centre making no sense if you pronounce it the way it's written.

I agree to some degree (a rhyme^^). Since I am from Germany, I am often annoyed about words in English not being written as they are pronounced, because in Germany we try to write everything as we pronounce it, so it makes more sense for me to e.g. write 'center' instead of 'centre' because it is pronounced the former way. Although in school we learned British English, most of my English came from games, so this might be a reason as well.

My native Language is German, although I speak better in English and write better in Spanish

Quite hard to believe for me^^

Mon francais est plus ou moin bien mais c'est plutot ma troisieme langue si tu avais lu mon poste sur la premiere page.

Très bien mon ami^^

[NergiZed]

Wow, there's a surprising amount of people on here that can speak Chinese, even some with Beijing accents. Wonder if any of you guys go to Chinese C&C communities. (acronym is CC&CC )

[Admiral FCS]

Well, considering Beijing is about 1/100 of China's population, and considering China is about 1/5 of the World's population, theoretically there should be 1/500 that speaks Mandarin with Beijing accents, but I guess our forum has a higher rate than that.

[JJ]

Wow, there's a surprising amount of people on here that can speak Chinese, even some with Beijing accents. Wonder if any of you guys go to Chinese C&C communities. (acronym is CC&CC )

Hmm nop, but I am interested to take a look at those sites.

[partyzanPaulZy]

English is the 3rd language I have learned (at least on some better level), I have some problems with double letters and so, sometimes I make typos (so not every bug is fault of my knowledge).

1st I was learning English in school, PC games helped me a bit, then the internet, later I started to watch US/GB movies/films and serials in original speaking (this helped me to differentiate accents like the Scotish accent from the Irish accent).

Another language I've learned in school was German (Ich kenne die Gründe wie: "Ein Bier bitte!" ).
German was 4th and I'll try to not forget it.

The 2nd language I have used to speak is the Czech language, yes, it's not the first language I have ever used.

When I was 3 years old, my mum moved with me to my father, because he finish his military training (which has been cancelled just few years ago from now)
and got the job. I was born in Kyiv (today Ukraine), because my father (Czech) studied there for the plane rigger and met there my mum (Russian).
So my first language is Russian, but I almost forgot it as my father insisted to speak in Czech at home only (my father is Moravian patriot + I needed Czech language more).

Now I am slowly relearning Russian (but i have understood it all the time, panyemayem, negavarim). Same happened to my knowledge of Azbuka (I knew these letters when I was 3 yr old, now I know most of them again). It's normal that very inteligent children can learn letters (and reading) even in so low age.

Note to Slavic languages: The are so similar that if you learn 1 Western Slavic language (like Czech*), you'll understand to other West Slavic languages;
if you learn 1 Eastern Slavic language (like Russian), you'll understand to other East Slavic languages;
if you learn 1 Western and 1 Eastern Slavic languages (Czech and Russian), you'll understand probably to every Slavic language (even Southern Slavic languages like Croatian or Serbian). Czech x Slovac is like Brit.ExAE, Czech x Russian is like Norwegian x German

* t;line-height:100%"> Czech language has one of the most complicated grammar in the world so for many people it's the hardest language to learn (I've heard it's harder than Chinese because of the grammar). Thanks to Habsburg monarchy and their germanization attempts for this (action x reaction).
EDIT: size=1 tag doesn't work

This post has been edited by partyzanPaulZy: 19 Jul 2009, 19:12

[ultimentra]

Previr, Cac dela?

[Cobretti]

Previr, Cac dela?

I believe you mean "Privjet, Kak dela?"

[Chyros]

I believe you mean "Privjet, Kak dela?"

Chorosho; zdravstvuyte, tovarich.

I'd like to learn Russian if it would've been more useful since all of it sounds like a quite beautiful language. I'd go for Spanish first, though.

[wb21]

First Language: Filipino, specifically, Tagalog (the main local language here in the Philippines, ano pa nga ba? ). I'm not used to provincial dialects, however.
Second language: Of course, English (US) -- nuff said...

I also know some Russian (from games, mods, Internet, books, etc.). Da!


This post has been edited by D' WRTHBRNGR: 20 Jul 2009, 8:05