What is your mother tongue language and what are the languages you know?

Question

Just curiosity!!!

Answer 1

In addition to my native U.S. English, I've already learned:

Esperanto - I learned it as a language learning experiment, because I wanted to find out if I could learn a foreign language.

Spanish - Because I failed it in High School, leading me to believe for many years that I couldn't learn a language, and it became a vendetta. I had to master it before I could go on.

German - because it is an ancestral language of mine.

Esperanto surprised me quite a bit. When I began learning it, I had the same opinion about it most of us in the U.S. have. I thought that since it was a "made up" language, nobody spoke it and it was practically useless, but once I had learned it, I was pleasantly surprised that it is spoken by people all over the world, an estimated 2 million people. I've had conversations in it with people I would never have met were it not for Esperanto, because they didn't speak English, and I never could have learned all their native languages. I've read literature and listened to music in it that I would never have been exposed to had I not taken the few months it took to learn Esperanto. Learning Esperanto has been the most enriching Language experience I've had yet. But I'm not finished yet.

In the future I would like to learn:

Mandarin - because I would like to travel in Asia, and Mandarin would be a very handy language to know for this travel.

American Sign Language - Just because it interests me.

Answer 2

English

Answer 3

Mother tongue English, speak Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin, Cantonese and French

Answer 4

My mother tongue language is Serbian,and I speak English good,and Spanish a little...

Answer 5

mother tongue Spanish, fluent in English and Papiamentu (one of the languages from the Netherlands Antilles in the caribbean), learning German at the moment. When I watch TV in Portuguese, Italian and French I can pick some phrases up.

Answer 6

My mother tongue is Polish. Except of that I speak English, German, a little bit of Italian (after 6 months learning) and a little bit of Greek (after 6 months living there).

Answer 7

My mother tongue is Spanish but I know English and French almost to perfection. I would like to learn Japanese or Chinese.

Answer 8

Hi Angels,
My moyher tongue language is Turkish.
I can speak English and writing.
Kind Regards

Answer 9

English. German minor, some Spanish and Japanese in college, French and Latin in high school. I wouldn't say I 'know' any language other than English, and I won't say so until I am as fluent in another language as I am in English.

Answer 10

My mother tounge is Bahasa Indonesia, though I didn't grow up in Indonesia. So English is now my main language. But that's about all