Serious Question: What is your native language?
 

.... and would you ever be willing to answer questions about it (via email/phone) from people who do research in it? This is for a mainstream project I am working on.

I'm interested in knowing how linguistically diverse GFY is. I'll be bumping this thread periodically.

Again, languages that you speak fluently (i.e., natively). A lot of Europeans are multilingual. If you are truly multilingual, list all your languages.

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Swedish, German, Italian, Bosnian and English

Some Spanish to but not fluently...

:thumbsup

when did you acquire each of these languages?

Spanish/English

French . I'm canadian thought, not from france

Filipino/English some spanish hmmm coz some of filipino words came from spanish language

French.

Spanish & English

Do you also speak Tagalog?

i speak japenese, english, french, german, chinese, and italian.

English, and that's it!

ebonics and redneck

Swedish. Trying to learn Spanish for the moment.

Fucker...Ya beat me to it. :321GFY

Me too!






(not really)

Umm, White I think.:1orglaugh

Redneck?? Me too!!

Yee Haw you sombitch!!

Strine :)

English & Italian. Learned Italian as my first language. Mom sat me in front of Sesame Street daily when I was a kid and I learned English that way and was fluent in both English & Italian by 3-4.

I've never taken an Italian class though so I don't know how to read and write it.

I've visited there at least 5+ times and still speak Italian with my family. So I'm still very fluent.

So "technically" I learned Italian first, but I consider English my primary and most fluent language.

(FYI: Born and raised in the U.S.)

You're definitely bilingual. I wish I was. I wish I had been raised in Europe.

I don't think REDNECK is a language. :1orglaugh

Are there any African born webmasters on GFY? There are some very cool languages in that part of the world.

English only because I'm a "stupid" American.

Please only list the languages you speak which you were never formally taught. i.e., the ones you picked up as a kid.

Don't feel bad. Most of us are like that. At least in Canada, you have mandatory French in your early school years (do they still do that?).

what iFlipcess really meant there is that she speaks both Tagalog and English, not Filipino...

so my answer would be the same as hers (Tagalog/English).

Bosnian = Born in Bosnia and Hercegovina (Fluently)
Swedish = Currently living in Sweden (Been here for 10 years. Fluently)
Italian = From my mother (Fluently)
German = From my father (Fluently)
English = School (Fluently.Maybe I shouldn't count that one?)

I also speak some spanish and some arabic but not that much...

English, German

Spanish/English/Italian

Croatian...

donnie, where in bosnia were you born?