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1:50 pm, Sep 21 2014
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French.
Learned English in TV series, games, mangas, movies and, well, the internet.

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3:32 pm, Sep 21 2014
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French
learned english by watching cartoon network

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3:59 pm, Sep 21 2014
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My background is chinese vietnamese. my native language is viet? But im forgetting the language since i live in an english speaking country. So im a natural english speaker. Oh, how i wish i could learn jap. So many good books to read >.<

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6:46 pm, Sep 30 2014
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Norwegian here wink

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7:32 pm, Sep 30 2014
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I'm Chinese, and my first language was one of the many dialects, though I consider my native language to be English because I'm more fluent at it since I live in an Anglophone country. When I talk to my parents, it's usually a mix of both (any Chinglish speakers? biggrin).

I can speak a bit of French though I'm usually too busy conjugating the verbs in my head (seriously, there's like fifteen types of conjugations).

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7:26 am, Oct 4 2014
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My native is Chinese, but I went back and forth every other year when I was in elementary school, and let's just say that it didn't help me with either languages.... As with fugly, I talk in a mix of Chinese and English eyes

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12:14 pm, Oct 4 2014
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If I could say Japanese, it'd be great. But I can't. Germanic. One of them

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3:08 pm, Oct 4 2014
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Portuguese, the version from Brazil. we pretty much don't understand portuguese from any other country! smile

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7:51 pm, Oct 5 2014
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I speak Cantonese. My mother decided to teach me Cantonese because she believed it was better compared to Teo Chew, which is what her entire family spoke for generations.

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8:44 am, Oct 7 2014
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I was born and raised in Canada so English would be considered by native language but I also speak Somali. I've also been studying Japanese for some years to the point I dream/think in Japanese.

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1:14 pm, Dec 12 2014
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Post #657929
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1:58 pm, Dec 12 2014
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Spanish sadly, i dont like my language really...

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3:39 pm, Dec 12 2014
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I speak human, I tried speaking cat, dog and even whale with no succes, I went on and tried to proceed with the un-researched language of turtle. Once again I failed. With so much stress and no success, I decided to start from scratch. One day I can only wish that I will succeed.

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3:41 pm, Dec 12 2014
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Thank you for the question, that would be Croatian, currently spoken by 4 million people (may drop in number in the future), if not slightly more including those in diaspora. So irrelevant that you can actually understand a bit of other Slavic languages. biggrin
But after thinking thoroughly, every language is special and it's a shame when there is that one word that fits what you're trying to say and it cannot be found in any other language (we may not be even aware of its existence). Sorry to say that I must complain that, even though English has the biggest vocabulary in the world (most of these words are derivatives from Latin ones, yes), it cannot be used in every occasion.
For, I think, there are so many languages and all of them were influenced by their speakers, people living in certain circumstances through time. So that is how some words are truly special, no matter how silly they may sound to you who speaks a different language. I am not a linguist, but I would like to say, language is alive and, really, a treasure. eyes

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Post #657937 - Reply to (#657929) by Trejon
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4:23 pm, Dec 12 2014
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Spanish sadly, i dont like my language really...


That's so sad! Spanish should have been my native language, but it's actually English. You should be proud of that. I wish Spanish had been my native language. Everyone seems to pick up English so easily as children, I would have been fine... laugh

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