What's your mother tongue and what other language do you speak?

[Jahnnavi]

My mother tongue is Assamese. But I don't use that language any more. I speak Bengali and English. And other languages that I know are Hindi, Spanish, French and German.

[Aizou]

Well I grew up in a family that spoke two
different languages. my mother is from Japan
and my father was Danish. And although I now
live in Japan, I were born in Denmark, so I guess
Danish is my mother language.

So I learned both Danish, Japanese and English early on
(in Denmark, you pretty much learn English
as you grow up, due to modern society)

The above three, I consider myself pretty much fluent at.
Other languages I understand a little of, are French, Italian, and Latin.

[Jahnnavi]

Yeah same here in India we learn English from our childhood along with of course our mother tongue

[Aizou]

I think it's a good thing, English is used pretty
much anywhere, so it's easy to speak with people ^~^

[Jahnnavi]

Yeah Universal language

[HandsomeRaj]

My mother tongue is Tamil. I'm born in the UK and reared in Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India

I speak (in order of strength & fluency)
1. Englsih
2. Hindi
3. Marathi
4. Kannada
5. Gujarati
6. Tulu
Understand more than speak - need practice
7. Punjabi
8. Sindhi
9. Konkani (GSB type)
10. Italian
11. French
12. Telegu
13. Malayalam

[Jahnnavi]

Oh nice you know a lot of Indian languages. :)

[HandsomeRaj]

I want to learn ALL languages but guess it'll either take a while or not happen lol. My targets are Arabic, fluency in Italian & French, Japanese for now :D

P. S. I forgot in my 1st list of fluent languages - Urdu :D

[Insaan]

I am surprised that you are back to india. Cool.
I didn't knew that you are a mumbaikar haha!

[HandsomeRaj]

I've always been in India though I have a permanent and anytime entry viza to the UK. When dual citizenship was banned here I took up Indian citizenship :D

I keep traveling though :)

[Insaan]

Wow thats nice :)

[justbanANNAz]

well its Arabic as my parents r Egyptian but i dont use it much unless I'm insulting people [cuz it sounds so much better] or just mixing it up with my english=]

yeh, fluently, I'm only bilingual I'm afraid=/

[Jahnnavi]

Yeah I know. I swear at people in German. Haha it sounds and feels so much better.

[justbanANNAz]

bahaha yeah its such an advantage too with people who dont know the language:P

[Jahnnavi]

yeah it is

[Stacyzee]

Both of my parents are Guyanese.
We do not speak a different language we speak broken-english.
Which would be similar to Jamaican, Trini's, or Bajan's etc (although the accent is different).

[wölfin-fräulein]

German, English, Persian, a bit of Arabic. Can read Avestan and Pahlavi and a bit of Sanskrit too. I'm a translator.

[Jahnnavi]

Good to see someone knows Sanskrit here. :)

[Mesonfielde]

Grew up in Hungary, and as such my mother language is obviously Hungarian. I am also fairly fluent in English (as it might be evident based on the blocks of text I tend to write up on this site :P), and I also studied some German but I honestly wouldn't be able to hold a simple conversation about the weather, so I wouldn't really count that as a language I actually know. So yeah, Hungarian and English here.

[molan]

Native language is Danish. Speak English and some German, understand Norwegian and Swedish and a bit of French and Latin - if latin still counts, since is more a professional language then a spoken languge,

[Jahnnavi]

Yeah right Latin is somewhat professional language

[molan]

Quod non intelligis mirari te facit

[PacificShark]

My first languages were Russian and Hindi, and besides that I can speak French, English and Japanese quite fluently and all the ostentatious fronts are kinda already known to me, soo for now, i think these are enough :)

[jeanbean]

Born and raised speaking English, I have some skill with Spanish but that's it. I'd learn several languages if I had the time or means to do so.

[Jahnnavi]

Oh cool :)

[Insaan]

My mother tongue is marathi.
I can speak English , hindi , and understand few other indian languages. Especially bengali and Gujarati.

[Jahnnavi]

Really that cool :)

[Insaan]

Ki korbo? :p

[Insaan]

WTF? Why downvote? LOL?

[Jahnnavi]

oh you don't have to do anything for now lol.

[Jahnnavi]

I don't know why people put down votes.

[HandsomeRaj]

downvote karat astaath loka - tyachayavaroon dokyala traas ka ghyaaycha baba? ;) :D cool - Marathi Mulga :D

[CastielsGirl]

Mine is filipino but i can fluently speak in english, spanish, german, danish, french and swedish. a little russian and italian.

[molan]

Hvordan kan det være du har lært dansk?

[CastielsGirl]

Min søster lærte mig, men mine venner siger, at det er lidt usammenhængende og forkert på en måde.

[TheLastGirlScout]

First language is English, second is Welsh and I'm starting to learn Spanish too.

[Jahnnavi]

I always wanted to learn Welsh trust me I find that language quite intriguing :)

[TheLastGirlScout]

Really? Most people don't even know what it is outside of the UK and Pensylvania! I'm semi fluent but have just started taking classes to brush up again.

[Jahnnavi]

Oh that's cool. But I knew that there is language called Welsh because i used to listen to a Welsh rock band.

[HandsomeRaj]

Kreol or Creol is a language that has french base in addition to words from English sprinkled with some Asian as well as African languages that were formerly spoken in Mauritius - I had googled it long ago ha ha :D

[TheLastGirlScout]

Yeah, I thought it was creole as well, did they speak it in New Orleans?

[TheLastGirlScout]

and what Welsh rock band?

[Jahnnavi]

I guess it was Lostprophets. They used to sing in English, but their accent was different.

[TheLastGirlScout]

Oh dear, have you heard about the lead singer?

[Jahnnavi]

yes he was a pedo that's why I stopped listening to them. Earlier their songs were meaningful but they've lost their meaning.

[TheLastGirlScout]

Terrible news, he's just started to make an appeal to reduce his sentence, I hope he dies in there and never comes out, I feel so sorry for the rest of the band, ruined their careers for them!

[Jahnnavi]

yes he ruined their lives, carriers and most importantly disappointed their fans.

[Masana]

Mothertongue are dutch and arabic and berbers

Further I am able to speak french, german and a bit of Spanish

[soccerchick4eva]

English :)
but i can kind of speak Japanese, and kind of learnt to speak french

[Jahnnavi]

Japanese. That's cute. ^.^

[soccerchick4eva]

hahha i had to learn it in school :")

[zombiebabe]

mother tongue=Kreol
i also speak French and English

[Jahnnavi]

Oh cool :)

[zombiebabe]

yeah:)

[TheLastGirlScout]

what is kreol?

[zombiebabe]

google it

[Insaan]

Umm.. can you tell me what is malbarCACA?

[zombiebabe]

hahahah its an insult towards Hindus which says that they are as disguting as shit... sounds like you know a bit

[Insaan]

Shit! Yeah i know because there was a creole guy in topix forum ( FULL OF SHIT) who was Muslim i guess and always used to call indians as malbarCACA. caca being CACA.
I wondered what was that. I used to bash him and ask him about that but he never said. lol
I knew that malbar is a word referred to particular south indian community who were took by Britishers in Mauritius. But CACA... Lol
My goodness he hated malbars so much... he used lot of degrading words against indians.

[zombiebabe]

most muslims don't like hindus... i guess its like this in most countries

[Insaan]

Yeah... Muslims ( not generalizing) basically are intolerant towards other religion. They have problems with Christians in many countries and with hindus in southasia.
That's why india was divided in two parts and Pakistan was created in 1947.

[zombiebabe]

yup.. sad but true

[sovetskii13]

1. Russian
2. English
I'm happy with knowing two languages fluently.

[TysJCB]

English, but my grandfather is Spanish so i speak that too

[lumos]

My mother tongue is Swedish. I also speak Finnish and English. I understand Norwegian and Danish.

[Klaatu51]

mym other language is greek and i speak English and some french and german

[Hmajed]

arabic
English :)

i really want to learn french too

[TheNewClassic]

Mother tongue is Albanian. And also speak German fluently.

A bit of English and French too.

[rUinSAYAN]

-portuguese (mother)
-german (2nd)
-english (3rd)

[pro143]

Mother tongue is Marathi

N i speak , Marathi , Hindi n English

[DaniyalMayo]

I am from Pakistan And My Mother Language is URDU. But i can also speak English, Punjabi, Mewati

[Jahnnavi]

What's Mewati? sorry for my ignorance

[DaniyalMayo]

There is caste system in our country so I belongs to Mayo caste and our caste language is Mewati :)

[DaniyalMayo]

I know Hindi too

[Anonymous]

My mother tongue is bengali. Can speak hindi, english, nepali.
Can understand the punjabi, odiah, Assamese

[harakiri]

ami
moreh
jhaithesi
:p

[Jahnnavi]

whaaa... don't die :p

[jayzee]

Beche thako sundori

[kangy]

My mother tongue is chinese language

[Jahnnavi]

oh cool there are two chinese language right the mandarin one and the simplified one.

[kangy]

it is the same but the writing is different. i learnt the simplified writing

[genericname85]

Only be German and English :/

[Jahnnavi]

nice :)

[megustalagasolina]

mother language: portuguese

[Jahnnavi]

oh nice :)

[Strider90]

German, English, Greek

[Jahnnavi]

oh nice :)

[Anonymous]

arabic/english

[Jahnnavi]

oh good :)

[Nahid1234]

Interesting