Discussion Are you a native English speaker?

[jar-baby]

Curious. Bonus question: if not English, what is your native language?

 

[i'm almost gone]

Curious. Bonus question: if not English, what is your native language?

Portuguese from Brazil :>

 

[innominesatanas44]

A slavic language

 

[LoiteringClouds]

My mother tongue is Japanese but I've been verbally abused in it and sometimes it triggers me. So about 5 years ago I started to use English in my free time, and in my head. Now, every time my bad memories try to get into my mind, I say "English please" and they go away. This "language barrier" have made my life much more bearable.

I type English regularly but I've never spoken it last 10 years, so I'm a terrible speaker.

 

[Tikialia]

Curious. Bonus question: if not English, what is your native language?

Polish is my native language but I'm learning English and French too ^^

 

[jar-baby]

Bump

 

[samdocheon]

Curious. Bonus question: if not English, what is your native language?

French here, learnd english with MMORPG like lineage 2 or WoW

 

[Ironborn]

English native, learnt a little bit of Japanese a few years back but then work took up any free time I had.
Wish we still spoke Old English, sounds much better in my opinion.

 

[Steff1337]

Mine native language be Zulu, but me speaking English muchly fluently. (JK)

 

[revontulet]

I don't know how good my English is but I use it almost every day. Finnish is my native language.

 

[Ffaxanadu]

My native language is Italian.
I've studied English at school, then I spent 20+ years using it in video games and chatting with people over the Internet.
I don't consider myself fluent, I can't understand when people are speaking English and my accent is terrible because even if I know english words I don't know how they are pronounced.

 

[loslassen]

my native language is Italian but i'm terrible at it, I speak better Spanish and English than Italian I'm trying to learn it as well as French.

 

[sos]

i aksualy spiek verie goed englisj so yea i would konsider myself as a native speeker

what would be considered as fluent

i can speak it just fine

my native language? the language of yap

 

[Steff1337]

Ok, no joking now, I'm a fluent English speaker and my native language is Serbian.

 

[SoulWhisperer]

I'm surprised most are natives when another poll had a majority of EUs compared to Americans. Meaning this place must be filled with people from UK following those two pieces of data!!

Anyways, I'm from EU and my native language is not English (even if I'm good at it) but Italian.

 

[yellowjester]

Non-native. But I already learned the basics in 4th and 5th gtade, before I stopped paying attention to school, so I'm pretty good at it. The rest comes from watching a shit ton of english films and TV shows as a teenager. The only thing I have some difficulties with are commas; because in german we use them more often and there are stricter rules when and when not to use them. In english it eeems to be mote inuitive, based on how it sounds when you speak it out loud, which I prefer, but it takes a while to get used to it, especially if you learned the language through auditory means.

 

[ixkitty]

I'm a native English speaker but also trying to learn Japanese