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What's your mother language?

What is your mother language?

  • English

    Votes: 117 55.5%
  • Spanish

    Votes: 19 9.0%
  • Portuguese

    Votes: 4 1.9%
  • German

    Votes: 14 6.6%
  • French

    Votes: 8 3.8%
  • Italian

    Votes: 3 1.4%
  • Japanese

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Korean

    Votes: 4 1.9%
  • Other (which?)

    Votes: 41 19.4%

  • Total voters
    211
Since we could only pick one I went with German, because technically that's the language I learned from my mother. I grew up with that and English equally though :3
 
Dutch, even tho I suck at it, ironically. (It's also one of the least spoken languages around the world, just imagine!) In my daily life ever since age 15 or smth, I speak English more frequently and better as I think it's a better language, too.
 
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My native language is English, I've learned Dutch and some german since moving to europe at 18 and now I'm trying to learn spanish to be able to speak my fianc?'s native language.
 
My native language is Norwegian, but at this point, having had mostly English-speaking friends most of my life and having lived in the UK for 2.5 years, I'm legitimately better at English. Always feels so... awkward and stilted to try and say anything in Norwegian. Maybe that's partly because of limits of the language though; it's not like English where every word has a dozen synonyms and there are SO many dialects and local variants that you're spoiled for choice. It's definitely a lot more fun to use!
 
100% English.

Though my mom's family has strong ties to German, and my great, great grandparents were fresh off the boat from Poland. I've been able to learn a lot of interesting things because of this.
 
English is my native language and, unfortunately, it's also the only language I currently know at all. I probably could have become fluent in Spanish but didn't really give it my all, stopped at some point, and gradually forgot what I had learned. I hope to learn some other languages in the future though.
 
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My native language is Swedish, and it's sadly the only language I speak fluently aside from English. I wish I had been better at studying and taken German class more seriously but yeah, no, I am not good at it.
 
I grew up speaking Russian, but for entertainment (books, cinema, games) I prefer English since it's usually the original language.

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and it's sadly the only language I speak fluently aside from English. I wish I had been better at studying and taken German class more seriously but yeah, no, I am not good at it.
Same story. Love German, but I failed trying to learn it.
 
Mine is Spanish! I grew up there, then moved to The Netherlands, so that's my 3rd language after English. Thanks to knowing these diverse languages I can also work myself through French, Italian and Portuguese, I'm very grateful for that haha.
 
Mine is Spanish! I grew up there, then moved to The Netherlands, so that's my 3rd language after English. Thanks to knowing these diverse languages I can also work myself through French, Italian and Portuguese, I'm very grateful for that haha.
It's like a superpower. You're only getting stronger.
 
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English : p
my mom is actually hispanic tho, and I wish she taught me Spanish growing up. it's hard being one of the only relatives on her side of the family who doesn't speak Spanish
 
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English, and Bulgarian, because my mother is from their and she spoke it and I learnt it.
 
Mine is Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian Language), and English is my second language so yeah i often make grammatical errors

I've tried to learn several languages like Malay, Mandarin, Japanese, and Arabic
 
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