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? asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 9 years ago

How many people out there speak more than 1 language?

Is English your first or second language?

Update:

For example for me Russian is my first language and English a second language. But I can do Spanish also... But not Latin; castilian spanish

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago
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    Kagda ya bil malinkiy, maya mama i papa uchili mne Russkiy yizik, patamushta ani pereyehale suda iz Raciyi.

    (When I was young, my mom and dad taught me the Russian language, because they moved here from Russia.)

    Of course, since I live in Canada, I speak English, which is my second language. And I can't type using the Russian alphabet on this keyboard, so I have to settle for the Latin one.

    Dans l'ecole, j'apprends le francais aussi, parce-que j'habite au Canada.

    (In school, I learn French as well, because I live in Canada.)

  • 9 years ago

    English is my second language (I am Spanish). I also know a little bit of French. But the language I really want to learn is Russian.

    I don't think many people speak a language (other than their own) fluently.

  • 9 years ago

    I speak 4 and some spanish.

    Yes, English is my first language.

  • 9 years ago

    Impressive. English is my first language and I can speak some Spanish...

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  • 9 years ago

    I speak 3 Spanish is my first English 2nd Italian 3rd

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    English is my first language.

    I am in my second year of studying German.

    My mom speaks Spanish, so i know a lot of it.

    I also take karate, which requires that i know Japanese.

    I also know some Polish because I'm half Polish.

  • 9 years ago

    I'm from India and typically (not always though) , people in India speak multiple languages. In India almost every state has its own authentic culture and language.

    I speak four languages, three of them are our national languages and English being the fourth.

  • 9 years ago

    I'm from Germany. Obviously, German is my first language, I speak Russian because my family is from there, so I guess English is my third language.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I speak two. And English is my second language.

  • 9 years ago

    English is my first language. And i speak spanish and some chinese.

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