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#1 Itwæs Nom

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 04:17 PM

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 04:25 PM

Yes. (I voted too).

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 04:28 PM

I'm from Finland, but I had most of my education from ages 4 to 15 in English so I've been speaking it quite fluently for most of my life. Lots of reading and surfing on the internet has helped a lot too, of course.

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 06:00 PM

Esa1996, on 06 October 2015 - 04:28 PM, said:

what land's he from?
Finland!
what language he speaks?
FINISH FINISH FINISH FINISH

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 07:19 PM

Weirdly enough, I don't know what my proper first language was. I was born in Nepal to parents who probably spoke mostly Nepali (and my first words were in Nepali), but then English and sign language came to the forefront when I was a toddler living in the US.

English is probably the language I speak best of the three I feel comfortable in. I have terrible, terrible Spanish as well, but not enough to have anything resembling a conversation.

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Posted 07 October 2015 - 01:02 AM

Bengali is my first language. (Spoken in the state of West Bengal, India)

English is my second language, but I kind of adopted it into my first language

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Posted 07 October 2015 - 01:11 AM

French is technically my first language however ever since i went to uni and stopped being in a french environment and forced to write in frnech it has detoriated significantly

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Posted 07 October 2015 - 03:53 AM

Yes.
Although it must be said that, this far up north, it's pretty much English in name only.

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Posted 07 October 2015 - 07:23 AM

Yes
I am very impressed with the cultural diversity displayed so far in the results. Great to see such great books bringing people from all over together

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Posted 07 October 2015 - 08:59 AM

Solidsnape, on 07 October 2015 - 03:53 AM, said:

Yes.
Although it must be said that, this far up north, it's pretty much English in name only.

I must say, I like your northern english, for some reason I find it to be easier on my ears than the southern... stuff. Unless someone talks the hardcore unintelligible version, like Cougar.

Also, no. English is my somethingst language, third or fourth, but I use three languages (german, russian and english) roughly to the same amount but for different tasks, so I've kind of stopped counting, especially since the other two (ukrainian and french) are atrophying due to disuse.

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Posted 07 October 2015 - 09:20 AM

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Posted 07 October 2015 - 07:51 PM

I speak American-English. I know swear words in other languages.

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Posted 08 October 2015 - 09:15 AM

Nicodimas, on 07 October 2015 - 07:51 PM, said:

I speak American-English. I know swear words in other languages.

So you say color instead of colour?

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Posted 11 October 2015 - 08:25 PM

Ive just realised Ive been counting Aussies and NZers as non-native speakers for some reason all the time...
sorry upside-downers!

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Posted 13 October 2015 - 01:45 PM

Technically, English is my third language (after Ukrainian and Russian). But I've lived in English-speaking environment for th past 16 years, so I'm basically as fluen in it as I am in my mother tongues-to the point where I can think in all 3. (still went with a "no answer, though)

I've also got some okayish, "intermediate" lvl French, which I'm slowly losing again due to lack of practice, and a workin understanding of Polish (due to many of my friends speaking it).

When I was in Spain I also tried to make my French sound "Spanish-accented", throwing in a smattering of phrases I picked up from books and from fundraising in Latin American neighbourhoods. I was surprisingly comprehensible to the locals, who spoke no English.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.