First Fluent Language?

[Nightkill the Emperor]

It's absolutely everywhere. So is Punjablish, Tamlish, etc. English vocabulary is very popular nowadays, and we take a lot of loan words.

Odd question. Bear with me.

You mentioned Tamilish. The Tamil, how do they feel about being included too under that umbrella term? I know they're fiercely nationalistic.

Under the umbrella term of Hindi?

We don't include them under that term. They have a very different language and it is recognised as such.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Odd question. Bear with me.

You mentioned Tamilish. The Tamil, how do they feel about being included too under that umbrella term? I know they're fiercely nationalistic.

Under the umbrella term of Hindi?

We don't include them under that term. They have a very different language and it is recognised as such.

Then I guess the author of the book was mistaken. He included them under the umbrella term. Thanks for the clarification.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Under the umbrella term of Hindi?

We don't include them under that term. They have a very different language and it is recognised as such.

Then I guess the author of the book was mistaken. He included them under the umbrella term. Thanks for the clarification.

No problem.

[Pacifornia]

Spanish is technically my first language but I have a full grasp of English, complete with an American accent

[Shnercropolis]

Well, my parents speak 100% English. So I learned English before any other language.

[Norway and Iceland]

English

[Tunglanes]

well the first fluent language i learned was Icelandic
but if that doesn't count (since i had to learn icelandic (since i am icelandic)) then russian would be my first fluent language that i tought myself

[Stadacona]

French. Learned it at home and at school. English is my second language.

[Sathera]

English and German at the same time really, however I don't use German much outside the home which makes my English much better, which is also a fact the somewhat saddens me.

[Retiva]

English.

Became fluent in Thai a few months later and now studying Japanese and Mandarin.

[Lamaredia]

My first fluent language was Swedish, my second was English and my third was Danish.

[Cill Airne]

Anglais.

[Central and Eastern Visayas]

Ang wikang Ingles. In the Philippines, that alone has gotten people mistaking me for being American.

[Starkiller101]

i know some spanish but i know mostly english

[Magna Libero]

I live in Finland. Finnish is the dominant language here, although there are a few areas in Finland where Swedish is dominant. Besides that I'm speaking Finnish I'm also speaking Swedish. I live in a bilingual family. So, I learned them at the same time. Swedish is used in my school. I speak Swedish in an accent, which differs from the standard Swedish in the sense that I don't think it's an accent or a dialect -- or it doesn't sound like so in my ears. I think Standard Swedish is more like an accent than Finland Swedish.

[Lydenburg]

I find it most amusing that Afrikaans is included on the poll, but not Dutch.

Anyroad, I like to think I was raised nearly bilingual.

[Occupied Deutschland]

Bad American English.

I have since acquired the capability of speaking in a much more normal English (and writing in it), but da' motherfuckin' B-A English slip out erry once-a-while y'know, dude?

[Free Tristania]

Dutch.

[Crystal Spires]

Spanish

[Beiluxia]

I first learnt Cantonese as I was born in Hong Kong. I immigrated to the US at the age of two, but within my family we continue to speak Cantonese exclusively to this day. Therefore I was fluent in Cantonese by the time I went to preschool, where I then first began learning English through school.

[Mkuki]

My first fluent language is English. I know some Spanish, but not enough to independently get around any Spanish-speaking majority community. Besides those two, I do know some words from at least a half dozen other languages.

[Alevuss]

I find it most amusing that Afrikaans is included on the poll, but not Dutch.

Anyroad, I like to think I was raised nearly bilingual.

Yeah, sorry about that. I had forgotten that a lot of NSers speak Dutch, enough so to have their own thread. I was trying to base the main nine choices off of the nationalities that seem to use NS the most, have large numbers of internet users, and commonly spoken languages. I realize Afrikaans isn't one of these, but it felt strange to not have a widely spoken language from each continent or cultural sphere. Afrikaans was chosen since, based off of past surveys of the site, few here speak Arabic and South Africa has the highest number of internet users in Africa below Nigeria and Egypt.

Of course, though, we seem to have a similar amount of speakers of Arabic as we do Afrikaans. The choices are an error on my part born out of limitation and a poor attempt at representation.

[Franklin Delano Bluth]

Tocharian B, though my mother herself grew up speaking Hittite.

(yes, yes, I'm fully aware of the geographical and historical absurdity of that)

[Senaastria]

English, et après ça le français.

[Ljvonia]

German...unsurprisingly since I live there. I don't know whether the Hamburg dialect is really all that distinct though.