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What is your native Language?

I know that some people are a bit confused by some of the posts or the way a comment might be written. So I thought it might be because English is not the native language of the writer and maybe the reader of the post. So if you are so inclined let us know what your native language is and what other languages you speak.

For me my native language is English, as a second language it is Welsh. Which means I can understand if not speak most of the languages of the British Isles. Useful if you live there but I live in California which means I really should learn Spanish and Japanese, but I have never found the time. Also I can not afford Rosetta Stone language software. I am happy there are free on line computer translators for most languages.

Elf

IceLancer's picture

Serbian Smile
English second.

Basic knowledge
Russian and some Cantonese,gotta learn some of it ,if you call yourself jrpg lover/anime Smile

I lived for a couple of years in the Netherlands, so my native language is English (British variety) and my second language is Foreign.

Foreign is an amalgam of all the other European languages thrown into the conversation whenever a phrase or word from that particular language best suits the situation. English developed that way, so Foreign's not so foreign to an English-speaker. It just gets amplified in the Netherlands by the availability of TV channels from all the surrounding countries. I've watched Italian films on German stations that were dubbed auf Deutsch, maar med Nederlands onderskriving. And lip-read the actors' English! We'd also play International Scrabble, where each player uses a different dictionary.

Kids there are fluent in four of five languages before they go to school, just from watching Rue Sésame, Sesamstrasse, Sesamstraat and Play with me Sesame (among others).

The same is true in Switzerland, where they have four national languages, and English is the neutral fall-back.

techiem2's picture

English, a tiny bit of Spanish when I remember what I learned in High School. I want to learn Japanese and German someday (and I should really re-learn Spanish) .. but like BE I don't exactly have lots of spare time to do so. :P