What is your first language?

[notdog1996 315]

So, I wanted to know what your first languages were, guys.  I know a lot of you are native English speakers, but a lot of people here aren't.  I just wanted to know the proportions.  I added pretty much every language I could think of to give proper results, but I'm sure I forgot some here and there.  Anyway, give us your first language and see how many there are in the forum with the same as you.

 

Note: I know there are several chinese languages, but for the sake of them not taking half the poll, I just regrouped them together

 

Oh, and my first language is French, by the way.

Edited December 30, 2013 by notdog1996

[Lunatic Cake 1,618]

First language: German

 

However I end up speaking a lot more english than german and even my french gets a little closer to german recently.

[Commander Tangent 861]

I Speak mainly English. though, since 2/3 of my family are russian, I speak russian on a basic level. 

[Kelario 95]

First language: English

Preferred language: German, because English is dumb

[Gone Airbourne 21,969]

English has been my first language but I am also part Puerto Rican so I know spanish fluently enough. I think English is quite the boring language

[Felix 1,363]

English, of course! Though I can speak French on a basic level. Same goes for Italian.

[Doc. Volt 2,561]

first language: italian

second language: english

learning: german

favourite: latin

[SS Patches 138]

First Language: Welsh,Irish and English (i speak a bit of those 3(mainly english though i sometimes break into welsh occasionally])

Second Language: Latin and the tiniest bit of Italian

[Clover Heart 978]

My first language is English. I was born and raised in America. My second language is Japanese.

[Demirari 454]

My first language is English with secondaries and learning.

1st: English

2nd: Chinese Simplified and Traditional

Learning: French

[Guest]

You've missed all the south slavic languages , anyway 

My first language: Slovene

My second languages: Italian, English

Learning: German

I know some: Serbo-croatian

[~Luminiferous Ether~ 107]

First language:

Australian English.

 

Preferred language:

Neuhochdeutsch oder Lateinisch

[Nerdy Luigi 2,064]

American English.

But I do know British English alright, partially because I'm about 2/5 Scottish and British.

I also am a Spanish II student ATM, and know some French. (Minimal, mostly counting)

I can also count to three and say no in German (my family has a lot of German, my grandma's dad spoke fluent German and English)

Edited December 30, 2013 by Twilight Sniper

[LordEguk 4]

My native language is German (I'm from Switzerland).

My second Language is English.

I can also speak French on a basic level.

I also have a very basic understanding for Italian and Latin

Edited December 30, 2013 by LordEguk

[Tigerpop198 696]

English is my first language. 

I can speak some French though it's somewhat basic.

Trying to learn Latin, very difficult in my opinion.

[Jokuc 8,172]

Well since I am born in Sweden and I live in Sweden, it's quite obvious that my first language is Swedish

 

I can speak english okay I guess and I can say a few words in french and finnish

[MustLoveCats 10]

My first language was American.

You have to add that on the list.

[Wayzer 1,418]

da Dutchman yeah!  I love my language.

 

Nah that was a lie :C

[Guest]

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[Sapana 66]

English is my first language, but I was born into a Hindi-speaking area, so I probably heard a lot of Hindi and knew a few words before I moved to the US when I was 2. 

 

I wish I actually did know Hindi, though.

[Darrala 269]

Born and raised in Finland, my first language is Finnish. I love English though, i understand it pretty much perfectly and i've always found it to be a rather easy language. Unfortunately i'm not very confident actually speaking it though, i feel like i mispronounce words often.

[Frosty Flurry 173]

First language is English in England.

So yeah I'm with the large amount of people on this one

[MagicalStarRain 599]

My first language is English and my second language is Japanese. I also speak a little Latin, but that's a written language.

[Hansel 1,511]

I voted "other". My first language is Hebrew. However, the majority of my family is English and I've lived in England for most of my life, so my English is actually stronger these days.  

Most people assume I'm fully English because of my accent and the way I look.

Edited December 30, 2013 by Hansel

[notdog1996 315]

Great!  There's a lot of variety here, it seems.  Still surprised that not a single hispanophone posted yet, though.