Fluent in French? Which country are you from?

Question

Is French your mother tongue? If not, how did you learn French?

I am Canadian, but have lived and worked in France or its territories for several years.

non, France metropole, la Reunion et actuellement a la Nouvelle Caledonie.

Answer 1

I'm a native speaker and I'm from Guadeloupe!
You said you've lived in French territories, would you tell me, if you've come to the French West Indies, please?

Answer 2

I am fluent in French, but English is my mother tongue. I learned it by taking 4 years of high school French and I earned my college degree in French. I was most proud of my French when I finally visited Paris and was able to converse in French with a real French person. I was so happy I thought my head would explode. In addition to studying French in academic environments, I surround myself with French stuff like music, literature, food, and movies. Almost all American movies also have French language tracks on the DVD. I watched "Pride and Prejudice" in French the other day. It is cool! I had the hardest time learning to speak French (I was always better at reading, writing, and listening). Now I am more confident of my speaking ability and I can't wait to go back to France again!

Answer 3

My mother tongue is spanish, but I've learned French for 2 years ..I still get very confused with all those accents and chapeaûs :/ but it sounds pretty so it's worth it :) .
I'm also trying to learn German, but all the grammar and stuff , I don't know, there are many exceptions to everything! >( ,
You live in Quebec?, my teacher used to tell us that in Quebec the canadians were even more restricted with french than french people themselves, like they'll say ¨fin de semaine¨ instead of ¨weekend¨ as most french people do, is it like that? , I don't know :/

Answer 4

More or less fluent. Studied it for years - from 7th grade on up through college (not counting that little bit in 1st and 2nd grade) - and at the end of that time, one of my professors (a French native speaker) told me I had literary talent. (And she'd never seen me write in English!) So even though I hardly ever use French anymore, I can't really forget it.

BTW I was born in the States but emigrated to Poland 15 years ago (so that now I spend my days speaking Polish rather than French...).

Answer 5

I am a Canadian, living in Ottawa, Ontario. I am completely fluent in both French and English. I took French in grades seven and eight when growing up in Toronto, however, did not become fluent until my first couple of years in Ottawa.
Cheers

Answer 6

French isn't my mother tounge. I took French in high school and really liked it so when I majored in international relations I studied French. I'm now fluent. I work a deskjob at the U.S. Embassy in Senegal, so I get to use French at my job.

Answer 7

I think i am fluent in french. I am Mexican and well, since I was a kid, we had at home this huge satellite dish anthena, and I was kind of good at locating chanel sources. I started watching cartoons and programation in several languages but stuck on Deutsch and Francois. My french writting is not that good, but somehow I can read it and speak it.

Answer 8

from the US, studied French from the age of 17 or so and am reasonably fluent--that is, I read and write well, less confident in my listening and speaking skills, probably due to the fact that I've never lived in a French-speaking area.

Answer 9

i took french all thru my high school years & a yr or 2 n college. i love the language, however my native tongue is English

Answer 10

I'm from Georgia, I learned French from my cousin

Answer 11

French is my birth tongue though i'm better at English now.
Brussels, Belgium. so its accented and we have words that some people don't recognize because it's local jargon we use in our daily vocab.