Is your native language English??

the girl next door · Post by **the girl next door** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:18 pm

I was just Wondering?? (as i do)
There are so many people here on this forum who come from
France,Belgium,Germany and all sorts of Different cuntries..!
SO….is your English really that good or are you all Native English speakers??

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:15 am

When you hang out on english forums on an almost daily basis a couple of years, it does wonders for your written english

SolonOfAthens · Post by **SolonOfAthens** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:32 am

I'm a native english speaker. You're right though, the english here seems to be well written. Maybe forums are the new way to learn a foreign language.

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:35 am

Non-native english here. Swedish!

Practice makes, if not perfect - at least... good?

-M

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:06 am

Bra! Myket Bra!

(as you can see i am in fact a native english speaker)

Do you have a Skane accent to other Swedes, Lo-Fi?

3dot... · Post by **3dot...** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:53 am

Hebrew...

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:12 am

english : well kinda

gerard · Post by **gerard** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:18 am

Niet. Luxemburgi here

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:34 am

it's something I'm always quite envious of - I think we native English speakers are at a considerable intellectual disadvantage to everyone else

the universal language in the world today is English so it gets used by everyone in any situation because they know there is more chance of being undrstood by more people because it is everybody's second language

while for us, even when we go abroad and try and speak in our high school renditions of whatever language, we usually get to a point where we cant say what we are trying to and the whole conversation lapses into English

then there's things like German software companies with multi-national staff who end up talking in English because it's the one language they all manage to speak

I'd much rather be bi-lingual, but for English speakers that generally is alot harder to achieve because everyone else wants to practice their English

chapelier fou · Post by **chapelier fou** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:49 am

I'd much rather be bi-lingual, but for English speakers that generally is alot harder to achieve because everyone else wants to practice their English

Okay, let's everybody write in french!

forge · Post by **forge** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:53 am

chapelier fou wrote:
I'd much rather be bi-lingual, but for English speakers that generally is alot harder to achieve because everyone else wants to practice their English
Okay, let's everybody write in french!

mais oui! Je voudrais parler en francais par-ce-que c'est la langue que j'ai étudiée à l'école - mais naturellement je ne parle pas bien.

Ou est Amo??

Je voudrais un kilo des fraises et un kilo des bananes s'il vous plait

did I just order the snails?

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:00 am

I spoke fluent English from the time I was 6-ish.
My main sources of education on that were BBC ,Nintendo and a shitload of 80's hits.

That being said.. Since I'm Belgian I should know French and Deutsch on top of Dutch. But bugger that, let Germans and French people learn English

the girl next door · Post by **the girl next door** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:09 am

I hated foreign languages at school and learnt bugger all..

I came over to Germany from England with the Army.After serving my time stayed here and I now speak German nearly as good as my English,only because I live here..You wouldn’t catch me speaking another language if is was still in the UK..!

4am · Post by **4am** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:57 am

spanish mother tongue, but living in switzerland i have to speak italian, french and german...
it is funny to say but my written english is better than my spoken english... it would be for me a great thing to have forums where you can also speak

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:22 am

Pitch Black wrote:Bra! Myket Bra!

(as you can see i am in fact a native english speaker)

Do you have a Skane accent to other Swedes, Lo-Fi?

I'm from Malmö, Skåne - so yes! I definitely talk Skånska.

How come you know so much about swedish linguistics?

-M