Is English your 2nd language, where are you from?

[Blessedme]

Where are you guys from? Is English your second language? English is my fourth language, but I still find it difficult to understand most people's posts here with poor grammar. How is that possible?

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

It's my second language. I'm from Shizuoka, Japan.

I started learning English quite early on starting formally from teachers at the age of 9, but I also picked up a little bit from my mother. She's American and I'm half-American on my mother's side. She mostly spoke Japanese while she was in Japan, but she read children's books to us in English like Dr. Seuss books.

[midnightmoon05]

I love Dr. Seuss books.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

@midnightmoon05 They used to freak me out a bit. I remember my mother reading Green Eggs and Ham and thinking that's weird and gross. 😅 I like them better now! But it was really creepy to me as a kid with the weird art.

[Drew-1990]

English is my first and only honestly. I apologize that you have a hard time understanding us sometimes. Lots of us have gotten lazy with texting and don't speak in proper grammar, we also like to use slang a lot. Me personally I don't always proof read and mistyped something without fixing it.

[jennifer_bloom]

Technically, it’s the second language family I learned because I learned English after Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese Chinese. But I’ve spoken English since age 4 so it’s my strongest dialect. I can hardly explore ideas in Chinese and I only know two Shanghainese words now.

[midnightmoon05]

2nd language. I started to learn English at age 11. My mother tongue is Chinese. I am probably bad with both languages.

[andreasderjuengere]

English is my main language, but not my native one (which is German).
As I live in Thailand, shitty grammar and choice of words is very familiar to me.
I guess that regular 'experience' fine-tunes our sense for guessing what the other side tries to express.

[TheSpaceGnome]

No, it's my first (and only) language.

I have no desire to learn any other languages.

[Nahid1707]

i live in London
My ethnicity background is Bangladesh
i am Bengali
Lived in England my whole life

[Al_Musafir]

Yes, it's my second language. My first language is a mix of Urdu and Hindi. I think you can guess where I'm from.

[Dou1994]

English is 3rd now. I speak Creole and learning French. So I am Haitian.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

It’s my 3rd language.

[spartan55]

Amazing...

[electromagnetic]

English is my 4th language.

[serenalovesramen]

ye im from mexico

[LavLavLuv]

Yes. And I’m from Indonesia

[IslaTheWitch]

Poland

[Astarlessnightsky]

Germany

[Anonymous]

English is my only language.

[boobliker]

England so yes

[Anonymous]

tenth language

[maj1nall]

Türkiye