Is English your first language?

[LunaRing]

As someone that has 4 out of the 5 types of dyslexia and only one language badly you all astound me!!!

[Coati]

Nope! Well even my english isn't that good, but I try hahahaha

[jcmraz]

Yeah english is my first. I speak a bit of vietnamese because my girlfriend and her entire family speak vietnamese as their primary and I'm around them all the time. My gf speaks english but her family doesnt much.

[Aleksei]

Not my first tongue. My first is spanish, and the second is english.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I'm American and about as white as it gets, so yeah, English is my first language. I studied a little bit of French and Italian in school, but I don't have a working knowledge of either of them anymore. (I wish I'd kept up with the Italian, though. I liked that language.)

[Moctemma]

No. My first is Spanish.

[BlairFujin]

It's my second, my first one is Polish

[silverraven0]

No, it’s my third actually. My first is a Chinese dialect, and I don’t know much Chinese because we mostly just spoke and not write in it. The second language i have is Indonesian, my national language.

[rajillustration]

I'm Californian so English is my native language and I speak very hippie and I use like and hella a lot. Also, Californians tend to use more Spanish in our common day, which is something not every English speaker does. So I got Spanish as a second language, mas o menos, but I read it far better than I can speak it. (like how I don't know how to use an accent on my keyboard, for instance)

[crowstories]

English is my first, and unfortunately, only language. My particular brand of American is riddled with slang that I started using as a joke, and then it ended up stuck in my lexicon.

[SurvivALIST]

"American" English is definitely my first language. As anonymous as I remain, I can tell you that it's quite annoying that my parents taught me to speak a language not of our own but I couldn't even understand their dialect or birth language [not the main one]. I'm a curious child but if it's like with barriers, it's quite helpless for me to reach out and cross it. So yeah, I'm bilingual but never trilingual.

[VibrantFox]

is english my first language? unfortunately yes...

the only language i've learned outside of it tho is spanish but i'd like to learn more

[oshirockingham]

English is my fourth language.

[AilyneGouveia]

dammmn ! I didn't know you talk so much different languages
That's impressive !

For me English is my third language, first one is German and second French, but i speak and understand French and german at the same lvl since my mom is German and my father French \o/

[mlocik97]

Does JavaScript count as language in this thread? (joke)

Well, I'm from Slovakia, so I learned langs in this order:

1. Slovak
2. Czech
3. English

[Llyrel]

Nope, my first language is Italian and English is my second! Still, I write the comic directly in English because I find it easier compared to writing in Italian first and then translating it, especially when it comes to puns (which would be nearly impossible to translate anyway)

As for other languages: I can read/understand spoken French 'cos I studied it in middle school, but I pretty much forgot everything about writing it. I also have some VERY basic knowledge of Swedish thanks to University + some self-teaching

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

Question for the folks for whom English is a second/third/fourth/whatever language: Was it a nightmare to learn? Because like I said, I'm a native English speaker, and even I know that English is a trash fire of a language. It's so confusing and inconsistent, an utter junk drawer of grammar and vocabulary looted from other languages, and I'm grateful I didn't have to try to learn it.

What were your experiences learning it? Was it as problematic as it seems like it would be?

[mcarrowolga]

No. My first language is Russian. English is just a language I learned at school as a kid.

[Ranty-cat]

Well, my country made English a compulsory subject. Thus, I was unable to avoid it even if I desired to. However, I always loved this subject the most for some reason. Perhaps, it was due to the reason that most of my favorite shows /cartoon series were in English. Plus, reading comics was another major hobby of mine and it still is. Most of them were all in English.

Ngl it still took time to reach a certain level..

[surenlicious]

Nope, my first language is Dutch. It was easy for me to learn though, I really thought it sounded beautiful whenever I heard it so I wanted to learn it. Writing stories and RPing about helped me improve a lot.