What is your first language?

[Chosen_one offline]

I'm just wondering, but what is your first language? Mine is Chinese.
The choices for the poll are the top ten most commonly spoken languages, in descencing order.

[The BB of C offline]

私の最初言語は英語であるが、時々私は人々の頭部によって台なしにするのを好む。

[Chosen_one offline]

私の最初言語は英語であるが、時々私は人々の頭部によって台なしにするのを好む。

I used to speak Japanese, but I forgot.

Somehow the machine translation of that is

My first language is English, but occasionally I without the stand depending upon the head of the people like the fact that it does

[The BB of C offline]

それのうちのどれか得たか。

[mcrule offline]

Mine is English being from England

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

English, naturally.

Dialect, New England.

the lesson in this: Never go to boston with nh plates and talk to a police officer for directions. They make fun of you.

[Jeremie Lover offline]

Japannesse

[SamBlob offline]

My first language is English, sort of. There is a continuum between Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole. What I speak is *usually* closer to English than to Creole, but sometimes...

[Metrion offline]

American English, Lower North dialect, although I'm partially fluent in Japanese.

[YDV offline]

Er... American English..? Upper and/or Midwestern dialect. xD;;

[Activated Tower offline]

American English. Don't know the dialect.

[Shi_Min_Xi offline]

Err...A mix betweeen Cantonese and English

Cantonese-The first language I can speak but I can't read it...
English- Second language to speak but I can read it...

So I've always said these two were my first languages...

Also chosen_one...It's should read Mandarin at the top....But whatever....

[YDV offline]

Where are you from or spent most of your time? ie: Southern, Western, uh... Alaskan...

Yeah, here's a map thingy. It doesn't use the terms most people would (like Midwestern, etc) but it could help:

Dialect Map

According to that, I'm.. uh.. the right half of Upper North in MI, and Lower North... (the southwestern part of OH..)

[Activated Tower offline]

Then my dialect (using the terms on the map) is Lower South.

Didn't you post some Know your American Dialect quiz a while back?

[YDV offline]

...Yes. But I technically was getting off-topic, so let's just, er... look this over. ^-^;;

[Chosen_one offline]

My dialect is Mandarin.

And Rage_of_the_Dragon... I consider the different Chinese dialects to be one language because they are written the same way.

Also, the "first language" is the first language you can speak. I don't know how to fully write in Chinese; I only know about 70 or so words

[Quin Separable offline]

American English. Upper North dialect according to that map.

I can speak a tiny bit of Spanish (yay for high school spanish class) but I'm currently starting to learn Hebrew

[Odd675 offline]

i speak some Spanish, but sometimes i can speak English :3, but i can speak a little of some french

[Chosen_one offline]

Where are you from or spent most of your time? ie: Southern, Western, uh... Alaskan...

Yeah, here's a map thingy. It doesn't use the terms most people would (like Midwestern, etc) but it could help:

Dialect Map

According to that, I'm.. uh.. the right half of Upper North in MI, and Lower North... (the southwestern part of OH..)

So it only shows the US...

[KayLenny#7 offline]

I only know English.

I do know lots of random words from other languages though. Mostly Japanese and even less Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Danish.

[Skorpigeist offline]

My first language is American English Southern Dialect although I tend not to use it.

My current language study and what I consider my second language is German.

[Ransomed_Heart offline]

Mine is English, upper/lower north dialect. I think my little towm might be on or really close to the dividing line between the two, so I'm not really sure.

My second language is French, but I would love to learn Hungarian.

[DL offline]

I speak english...very bad english...so bad I cant spell. My dad is trying to teach my Hungarian or Romainian (I forget wich) but I am a dunce when it comes to learning other languages so it is not going so well

[Aurelius offline]

American English, Upper North. I'm from NY!

[Chosen_one offline]

My second language is Japanese (but I forgot that)
and my third language is English.
My fourth language is Spanish.
My fifth language is French (but I discontinued learning it).
My sixth language is Hebrew. (but I don't study it often.)