What is your mother tongue mylotters?
By tonytt2009
@tonytt2009 (1706)
China
September 3, 2008 11:21pm CST
Since we're all writing in English here in mylot.I'm wondering which is the mother language of most of mylotters,English or others.For me,my mother tongue is Chinese and I studied English as my 2nd language starting from my 13 years old.So,how about yours?Thanks for sharing with us~~~
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14 responses
@tonytt2009 (1706)
• China
5 Sep 08
Wow,I found that quite certain number of my friends --mylotters had learnt more that two languages,that's really cool`~Felt shame that I just have two.lol~~Thanks for response.

@williamjisir (22819)
• China
5 Sep 08
Hello tonytt. My native language is exactly the same as yours since we are both country-fellows. English is my favorite language, besides my mother tongue.
@tonytt2009 (1706)
• China
7 Sep 08
Wow,nice to meet you here in mylot`~If next time come to GZ,do give me a PM.

@tonytt2009 (1706)
• China
4 Sep 08
Aha~~is it the Spanish a major or lesson in high school of your country?I found fwidman also mentioned that.Thanks for sharing``
@tonytt2009 (1706)
• China
5 Sep 08
Wow,thanks for your response.My boss uses French as well
,we could communicate in Chinese,is that cool?~~
,we could communicate in Chinese,is that cool?~~ @sumiirajj (1983)
• India
4 Sep 08
H i tonytt,Mother country India and my state Tamilnadu,and my mother tongue telugu .thanks for sharing.happy mylotting.


@corngrass (727)
• Malaysia
4 Sep 08
Hi there! I'm a Malaysia born Chinese. Mandarin is my mother language. My 2nd language is malay and English because in Malaysia, we were brought up in "multi-language" culture. So, where are you from?
@angelia286 (2029)
• Singapore
4 Sep 08
Hey! Which part of Malaysia are you from?
My boyfriend is from Perak, and they being Chinese educated knows not a single word of English! And those of my friends from Negri Sembilan knows English but not Chinese. 
My boyfriend is from Perak, and they being Chinese educated knows not a single word of English! And those of my friends from Negri Sembilan knows English but not Chinese. 
@tonytt2009 (1706)
• China
5 Sep 08
Wow,nice to see you in mylot.I'm from China~~So,we could talk over in Chinese?lol
@ccatherine (416)
• Portugal
4 Sep 08
I was born in France but I don't consider french my mother tongue because I don't know very much of it anymore (I talk a bit but not like before). So for me my mother language is Portuguese and I study english since I started school =)
@consultrainer (4991)
• India
4 Sep 08
through your wonderful topic, friend, I could find a few more INDIANS, speaking the same mother tongue as me. I am an INDIAN.. as indicated, and my mother tongue is TELUGU. with about 56 different alphabets, it is considered one of the sweetest and toughest of SOUTH INDIAN LANGUAGES.
And, can you understand .. we have 3 different alphabets for the three different sounds of S .. s, sh, and the s with a dot under it. lols.
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
4 Sep 08
My mother tongue language is chinese though i speak chinese most of the time.. lol =D In singapore, our main language is english, because in schools, everything is being taught in english except for chinese and other languages whereby we have a choice to choose if we wanted to.. hehe
Like there are some chinese, opting to learn malay for their mother tongue languages or vice versa.. It's very flexible, but english has to be the main language ^_^
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
4 Sep 08
hi tonytt I am an American and my mother tongue is
English. I have studied Spanish but did not remember
much about it. so I am not multilingual shame on me
we should all really learn more new languages besides
English. I notice you chinese are often multilingual
which is a nice talent to have.You are very fluent in
English, you areto be commended.
@tonytt2009 (1706)
• China
5 Sep 08
Thanks for your kindly commend~One of my family learnt Spanish as the 3th langauge and very cool in command it of which I'm so jealousy.
@tonytt2009 (1706)
• China
4 Sep 08
Thanks for response.I was thinking of learning Spanish during my times in University and finally gave up due to the tighten time & difficult classes.lol
@angelia286 (2029)
• Singapore
4 Sep 08
Tonytt2009, where are you from? You mean to say that in China, English was only learnt when you all are in high school? Ain't that a bit too old to start learning a 2nd language. Anyway, you had quite a good command of written English even though you started learning it only when you are 13 years old!
Well, I was born, bred and raised in Singapore where everybody is billingual. From a tender age of 2 or 3, we enter into school and we had to learn two languages - English being our first language, and then one Mother Tongue (depending on your race).
The Chinese in Singapore will learn Chinese, the Malays learn Malay, the Indians learn Tamil. I'm Chinese so my mother tongue is Chinese!
And I hated it in my 17 years of studies. Thank goodness there is no need for the use of Chinese anymore ever since I had graduated from college.
In college, I took up a further 2 more language as my 3rd and 4th language. And that is Japanese and French. Needless to say, I forgot both as soon as I graduated this year. We don't use this two languages over in Singapore at all, save for the fact that we use it in the lesson itself (1 hour per week?). It is of no wonder they are forgotten as soon as I graduate.
So, that about wraps up the languages that I know and had learnt. Fluent in both English and Mandarin (Chinese), and very weak in Japanese and French! Hope that you enjoy my post! Lol.
And I hated it in my 17 years of studies. Thank goodness there is no need for the use of Chinese anymore ever since I had graduated from college.
In college, I took up a further 2 more language as my 3rd and 4th language. And that is Japanese and French. Needless to say, I forgot both as soon as I graduated this year. We don't use this two languages over in Singapore at all, save for the fact that we use it in the lesson itself (1 hour per week?). It is of no wonder they are forgotten as soon as I graduate.
So, that about wraps up the languages that I know and had learnt. Fluent in both English and Mandarin (Chinese), and very weak in Japanese and French! Hope that you enjoy my post! Lol.@tonytt2009 (1706)
• China
4 Sep 08
Wow,it's quite happy to see your comment on my English~
.Yes,People in China will always begin their 2nd language from junior high shcool(but nowadays,Chinese will start from childhood,say 6 years or so).Anyway,I'm struggling to keep my English after graduating from school.Now,I found mylot and have all of you my friends here,that's great~!~
As you mentioned,you're still good at Chinese?It'll be nice if meeting in S'pore with Chinese communication~`lol
.Yes,People in China will always begin their 2nd language from junior high shcool(but nowadays,Chinese will start from childhood,say 6 years or so).Anyway,I'm struggling to keep my English after graduating from school.Now,I found mylot and have all of you my friends here,that's great~!~
@magna86 (1786)
• India
4 Sep 08
well since i am from india there are alot of languages that people speak!!! my mother tongue is hindhi, but we speak tamil here!1 all the social communications are done using this language, as far as education is concerned its in english!!!!














