What Is Your First Language?

English (Specifically Mid-West American Dialect)

Swedish is my first language. And I have read Latin two year.
(even if my spelling is bad in English)

I chose "other", because when I was born, I spoke a mysterious otherworldly psychic language.

Now I speak American.


I would like to re-learn and then become fluent in Spanish. I also want to continue to learn French again. Both those languages are very similar of course. Japanese is also of great interest to me.

Most of all, I want to learn the language of the Woman Folk. It's a strange, illogical and confounding language that few men have learned (and lived to tell the tail).

It will be the subject of a psychological adventure film in the near future (similar to that Johnny Depp movie about that devil's book, and all three Indiana Jones movies put together)

DreadFish said:

Most of all, I want to learn the language of the Woman Folk. It's a strange, illogical and confounding language that few men have learned (and lived to tell the tail).

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Oh, really?

Well, if you don't know, we're not gonna tell you.

First language: Swedish. Successful days, I can for several minutes convince English and German speakers that we share a mother tongue.

I can sustain not too complicated conversations in French and Dutch, and I professionally translate from those languages (as well as, of course, from English, German, Danish and Norwegian) into Swedish.

I encounter few difficulties when reading newspapers in Spanish and Italian.

My limited acquaintance with Afrikaans, Frisian, Catalan and Portuguese tells me that the general meaning of newspaper texts or Wikipedia entries are accessible to me.

I have touched the basics of Arabic, Bible Hebrew, Russian and Bulgarian. Passed a year of university Hindi and two of Chinese, but those Asian languages need massive improvements for any practical purposes. Ask me again in a couple of years.

Wales is becoming my second home country, so Welsh would be fascinating, but not very useful. On the list, but low priority.

DreadFish said:

Japanese is ... a strange, illogical and confounding language

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:sorry1:

British English and I learnt basic French at school.
I'd like to learn Arabic and continue with my French, even though I know I probably won't considering I won't have time in the near future.

French. Because i almost never speak arabic and didn't really study it.
So my french is much better, and that's the language that i speak with my friends and family daily.
I speak then arabic, english.
I don't speak very well spanish but i understand it.

I'm learning italian. And i would like to learn turkish, urdu and hebrew in the future

I had to think for a moment what to reply to this. I was raised Swedish and studied in that language until my late teens, but my Finnish has alwats been a stronger language to me. I went with Finnish in the end, since it's my current family language. Other languages included in my family (cousins, aunts, similar): English, Portuguese, French. Gets sometimes weird on family dinners.

The first language I ever spoke was Gujarati. Then farsi. Then hindi. I didn't learn English till I was 6. It's funny because English is my primary language now. I still speak the other three as well as a little spanish.

I would like to learn spanish fluently and maybe russian.