First Fluent Language?

[Kingdom of Israel]

Hebrew.

[The Baltic Sea Union (Ancient)]

Swedish.

[Al Meajilia]

What is the first language you learned fluently?

Arabic

Did you learn from from your family or elsewhere (school, neighborhood, etc.)? Is this language you group up speaking? If not, what was? Or did you grow up bilingual? If such is the case, can you note what languages you learned and how they were used (perhaps one was only used in school, with distant family, neighbors, etc.)?

I'm Kuwaiti and lived in Kuwait my entire life, so it's basically a day to day thing speaking Arabic, I attend an American school so I know fluent English as well. Broken English is sometimes needed to speak with workers at Fastfood restaurants as they are usually expatriates however I do know fluent English and most workers speak Broken Arabic too.

Is your language the dominant/official language of the nation or area you live in? If you grew up learning more than one main language, is that something to be expected of kids where you live?

Yes it is the dominant language in the country.

Also, if there are a number of dialects of the language you speak, what one do speak (or grew up with in the area you live in)?

There are many Arabic dialects, they are usually mutually intelligible and if there are words that are not intelligible most Arabs have a common understanding of Modern Standard Arabic so we usually replace some of the dialect native words with standard Arabic words. But I grew up with Gulf Arabic dialect.

[Eaglleia]

English. Which isn't actually my native language. >.>

[Arumdaum]

English is sadly the only language I know fluently.

However, the first language I spoke was Korean, and I can hold general conversations, ask for things, etc.

[Viinborg]

Dutch. It's not as bad as it sounds.

[The National Socialist Philippines]

Cebuano. One of the Main Filipino dialects

[Quintium]

You have Afrikaans, but not Dutch? That's like having 'Australian', but not English. As much as they want to be special, Afrikaners just speak a dialect of Dutch.
Dutch being my first fluent language.

[Napkiraly]

You have Afrikaans, but not Dutch? That's like having 'Australian', but not English. As much as they want to be special, Afrikaners just speak a dialect of Dutch.
Dutch being my first fluent language.

Afrikaans is actually a separate language. While there is a large amount of mutual intelligibility, it's not a dialect.

Anyway, for me it's English.

[Arumdaum]

You have Afrikaans, but not Dutch? That's like having 'Australian', but not English. As much as they want to be special, Afrikaners just speak a dialect of Dutch.
Dutch being my first fluent language.

Afrikaans is actually a separate language. While there is a large amount of mutual intelligibility, it's not a dialect.

Anyway, for me it's English.

The distinction between dialects and languages is arbitrary, and generally dependent upon the mutual intelligibility.

[Immoren]

You have Afrikaans, but not Dutch? That's like having 'Australian', but not English. As much as they want to be special, Afrikaners just speak a dialect of Dutch.
Dutch being my first fluent language.

Afrikaans is actually a separate language. While there is a large amount of mutual intelligibility, it's not a dialect.

Anyway, for me it's English.

As they say "language is a dialect with an army and navy".

[Empire of Vlissingen]

You have Afrikaans, but not Dutch? That's like having 'Australian', but not English. As much as they want to be special, Afrikaners just speak a dialect of Dutch.
Dutch being my first fluent language.

Afrikaans is actually a separate language. While there is a large amount of mutual intelligibility, it's not a dialect.

Anyway, for me it's English.

No they speak Dutch like old Dutch farmers. If they would live in rural areas like Zeeland (Province of the Netherlands) people would understand them.

[Duvniask]

The incredibly confusing and weird accent language of Danish.

[The United Colonies of Earth]

English. I am trying to learn Spanish and German, as well as three fictional languages I've made up: Ghibalbian, Tellurian, and Legrian.

[Hopeless]

Afrikaans for me, 'n Boer vir lewe! English is my second though for obvious reasons, considering the volume of people that speak it.

[Hopeless]

You have Afrikaans, but not Dutch? That's like having 'Australian', but not English. As much as they want to be special, Afrikaners just speak a dialect of Dutch.
Dutch being my first fluent language.

And its not a dialect, after 350 years our language is different, and far more expressive and fluid than guttural Dutch lol

[Hopeless]

Afrikaans is actually a separate language. While there is a large amount of mutual intelligibility, it's not a dialect.

Anyway, for me it's English.

No they speak Dutch like old Dutch farmers. If they would live in rural areas like Zeeland (Province of the Netherlands) people would understand them.

And i disagree with that as i speak Afrikaans, i can read Dutch relatively well, but speak it to me and understanding it goes out the window.

[Lindenholt]

My first language was Dutch,

also OP could you add that language instead of Afrikaans? Dutch would actually make more sense since Afrikaans is technically Dutch

[Neo-Latin Rome]

The incredibly confusing and weird accent language of Danish.

I've had a Dane speak to me and I could have sworn he was mocking or belittling me, despite the smile on his face.

[Hopeless]

My first language was Dutch,

also OP could you add that language instead of Afrikaans? Dutch would actually make more sense since Afrikaans is technically Dutch

He can add Dutch and leave Afrikaans there, distinct language. That is practically postulating that we should name most languages Latin as it branched into two branches, one leading to French/Spanish/Italian while the other went Dutch/German/English. Romantic and Germanic languages and all that.

[Iuronia]

Russian.

My first language was Dutch,

also OP could you add that language instead of Afrikaans? Dutch would actually make more sense since Afrikaans is technically Dutch

He can add Dutch, distinct language. That is practically postulating that we should name most languages Latin as it branched into two branches, one leading to French/Spanish/Italian while the other went Dutch/German/English. Romantic and Germanic languages and all that.

Uhh, what? The Germanic languages evolved from a completely different language. Unless that's what you're saying, in which case I didn't get that.

[Duvniask]

The incredibly confusing and weird accent language of Danish.

I've had a Dane speak to me and I could have sworn he was mocking or belittling me, despite the smile on his face.

Unless it was that type of person, I don't think they had intended to mock you.

Also, such is often the case regardless of language.

[Hopeless]

Russian.

He can add Dutch, distinct language. That is practically postulating that we should name most languages Latin as it branched into two branches, one leading to French/Spanish/Italian while the other went Dutch/German/English. Romantic and Germanic languages and all that.

Uhh, what? The Germanic languages evolved from a completely different language. Unless that's what you're saying, in which case I didn't get that.

Latin branched into two main lines, those led eventually to Germanic and Romantic languages, it is a very extensive example, but after 350 years and a geographic difference of a few thousand kilometres with influences from sources like the British, Portuguese and Malaysian slaves the language changed quite a bit, i will however not get into the masses of spelling differences and expression differences, reading and writing is still relatively understandable, speaking it is the main divide in Afrikaans and Dutch

[Arumdaum]

My first language was Dutch,

also OP could you add that language instead of Afrikaans? Dutch would actually make more sense since Afrikaans is technically Dutch

He can add Dutch and leave Afrikaans there, distinct language. That is practically postulating that we should name most languages Latin as it branched into two branches, one leading to French/Spanish/Italian while the other went Dutch/German/English. Romantic and Germanic languages and all that.

lolno

Latin is a Romance language, and the Germanic languages are in a different branch of the Indo-European language family.

[Arumdaum]

Russian.

He can add Dutch, distinct language. That is practically postulating that we should name most languages Latin as it branched into two branches, one leading to French/Spanish/Italian while the other went Dutch/German/English. Romantic and Germanic languages and all that.

Uhh, what? The Germanic languages evolved from a completely different language. Unless that's what you're saying, in which case I didn't get that.

ehhhh

Romance and Germanic both evolved from proto-Indo-European