I'm from Ireland, but I live in Germany now. My first language is English and I also speak some German. Like you, I'm better at writing/understanding than I am at actually speaking German.
Born In North London, moved to Berkshire at a very young age and grew up there and consider that as where I am from, now live in Manchester.
English is my only language, sadly, although I studied German upto AS level at school, but as I haven't done it for a while I have forgotten a lot, which I regret.
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it ok you can learn other languauages if you like. i once tryed lern french failed though only no french numbers to twa (likly spelt wrong) and not sure can count in order!!
Born in Germany, but live in Australia and know limited German :'(
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I have lived in Denmark my entire life. I of course speak Danish fluently as well as English. I can also read German and speak a little but have forgotten most of it as i never use it in spoken language. I used to be okay at it though. I forgot almost all of the Italian i knew since stopping school. Norwegian and Swedish i can understand and read as well because its very similar to Danish. But i am only fluent in Danish and English.
I have lived in the same city all my life but have traveled a lot since being a child. I like where i live though and dont really have any plans of ever move away from here.
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Kan ikke eksistere blandt ufuldkomne
thats pretty cool and am glad this thread doing well :) i wondewhat the second most spoken laugauge on hear is other than enghlish ( sigh there goes my ***** spelling AGAIN! ) lolrote age instead of agian but luckly noticed be for posting
I was born in Scotland, and still live in Scotland. English is my first language but also know a huge amount of Scots "slang". Can read French, but not as well as I used to be able to. Can't speak it that well either.
Reading books, papers etc in foreign languages is easier than conversing in them. I had to take Italian for art history studies. Curiously I was able to read French better than Italian because French has a lot of English cognates (words that look and mean the same in different language) while Italian has a lot of false cognates (an Italian word can look just like an English word and have a different meaning). I've come to think of French as just English with more E's and L's. My Spanish comes from being around immigrants that have swarmed the area. I can hang ok on a construction site. I was taught the potty words first.
i was born in Moscow Russia, first language is Russian , can read and write well in english just not so.good with spoken
Do you still live in Russia? I'm going there soon
I was born in London lived all over the world now back in london
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I have lived in Denmark my entire life. I of course speak Danish fluently as well as English.
I presume you speak Danish most of the time then? I find it fascinating that there are people on here who write in perfect English and I think of them as English-speakers but who leave the computer screen and go and conduct their lives in a different language!
I guess that's a standard English person thing; being bilingual is such a curious and impressive concept!
As for me, I'm northern Irish living in England and I speak English, small amounts of German and even smaller amounts of French. I am attempting to learn to greet all of one of my year eight classes in their mother tongues- can do Arabic, Serbian, Polish and Turkish so far :)
