I know we all are from different nations, and it suddenly struck me that we were all using English quite well. And that made me wonder what languages were spoken on this forum. As an aside, has programming affected your speach at all?
Programming? No. Just the need to communicate. I'm a native Spanish speaker and I don't speak English to other people unless I connect to the internet and use IM. I have absolutely no English training appart from three years in primary and four in high school. I've learn 10 times more in my IM chats than in my classes, so go figure
Danish is my native langauge, and altho I've had english classes for 7 years, I've learned most from reading programming books and fantasy books in english, and later on from using english forums and chatting with people whom I had only english in common with.
From looking at my classmates, I guess that english classes in denmark must really suck. Most of them speak like I imagine a 5 year old native english child would. But then again, if they don't have anything to use it for, they don't really have any reasons to learn it...
Newenglandese is my native language, it's a dialect of Americanese (English spoken in the USA) that is only spoken in New England.
apperently Americanese =P
Well, eh, I mean, my old native deeealect out here is the Canad-yin inglish. On'y diff-rince from regular speak is that we say gradge for garage, and all 'er sentences are interrupted by lots of eh's and just-a-sec-let-me-go-get-a-cold-one-and-check-the-hockey-score's.
US English (Mid-Atlantic), . However, since "US English" isn't really a language, I suppose it's just "English."
--j_k
I was born in New York. My parents were from Spain. I spoke only Spanish until I went to Kindergarten and learned English. Afterwards, I spoke both.
So, my "mother language" is Spanish, and my native (where I was born and raised) language is English.
Many children of immigrants into the USA fall into the same category. Born in the USA but spoke or still speak a foreign mother language.
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I speak Americanise acording to Nek, tho he left the opinion I suspose to speak like(Being from south east):
"I dun got nun that"
Eh? Never spoke like that in my life,... :rotfl: