Your Native Tongue

[indianarchie]

well..i speak gujarati..but i use it mostly for family...with frends and almost everywhere else..its english with a smattering of hindi sometimes.

[Jeremy]

English only.

[angadsingh007]

Marathi

That's supposedly my native language. But I end up talking/communicating with people (online, as well as real-life) in English more often than not (90% of the time). So I can't really claim to know my Mother Tongue very well (I know as much as I learned of it in my infancy, I suppose).

Marathi is one of the many, many languages spoken in India. I vote for Asian group of languages.

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Me 2 ... i cant remember when I last spoke my native language .. lol .. not that bad actualyl but yes.... me too speaks english 95% of the time and hindi (my native language) only 6% of the time.. (just for kicks)

Now u wud ask how come thats 95% and 6%... am i so dumb ?...

LOL... theres something called "HINGLISH" here.... a mixture of HINDI and ENGLISH.... I speak that 1% of the time...

[trickytwista]

english only here...wish knew more languages but i too idle to learn...cheers

[Aero]

English and only English. I failed Spanish class in highschool twice Im horrible with other languages.

[rjz]

English and some computer geek only stuff

[BIGbadjohn]

English here.

[Glowy]

Native Dutch, but english as well, have to use it for my work a lot.

and an very little bit of german. that's about it.

[Rekenaar]

My signiture gives me away.

Afrikaans as huistaal, Engels as 2de taal.

[dos68]

French here.. Also speak English, Spanish (school) used to speak Italian but mostly forget try to learn Portuguese and Bostonian English...

[arvindK]

Language in the house - Kannada (Can Speak, Can't read or write)

Language in the locality - Marathi, Hindi (Can Speak, Read, Write)

Language on Net - English (Can Speak, Can read and write a bit)

@pratapml nice thread, and from the input's a successful one too.

[mtvento]

German and Italian (double mother language.... Had a smart father)

But use english for my jobs and online,

understand and speak a little of a ancient catalan dialect used in my town in sardinia.

french and spanish are going to be the next ones to be learned

[coocy]

My native tongue is Dutch and the local dialect.

As you see I can speak, read and write English fluently.

Understand a little bit of hindi ( Bollywood films )

[Zxian]

Swedish and English... learned both at the same time. My parents both speak swedish, so we spoke that at home, and English when I went out.

I still speak swedish with my parents at home.... makes for great "secret discussions" in front of everyone else... really cheezes them off!

I can understand French, German, and Dutch, though, and I'm thinking of doing graduate studies in Europe... so probably one of those is going to improve in about 2 years...

[Lost Soul]

im an american so i speak english mainly but my moms philipino so i speak a pinch of tagolog,, and ive studied spanish for 3 years growing up