What is Your Second Tongue? or third, or fourth....

There is not very much doubt about it. As language go, English is probably the one that has evoked the most comment, criticism and controversy. I am quite a linguist. Besides English, I speak my native dialect, my national language and chinese. I am jack of all trade but master of non. Weird but true as I am comfortable mincing my languages when I speak.

Well krajibg, Aside from my first language, which is filipino, dominantly tagalog as there are other dialects in our filipino language, I am also able to express myself most of the time in english. I think I know a little spanish but, not consistently practicing it makes my skills in that language very little now. (^_^")

My mother tongue is English. I have since become fluent in Italian too. I learnt it here in Italy over several years and taught myself how to read and write. It is so different from English. The accents which are placed over the letters was so confusing for me when learning to write in Italian but I got there in the end Now I have difficulty with some English words which have been brought into the English language since I moved. That seems impossible but the whole of the computer language is all made up of new words brought in over the last 30 years. I know them in Italian but not so well in English

My bachelors degree is in English and I will whole-heartedly agree with you that it's the most difficult language to learn. Currently we are learning ASL (American Sign Language) because of my husband's hearing loss (which keeps getting worse each year)from serving in the military. He's also teaching me German, Japanese, and Manderin. And he works with me on my Spanish which I had three years of, but get a bit rusty with. Our son is so cute because he's picking up on it as well. I think right now my favorite is German because my husband is so fluent in it. I suppose part of it is just the romantic side, but he's got the same pronunciation that Brad Pitt had when he made the film 7 years in Tibet, so I get all goose pimple when my husband speaks. Eh, a woman thing I suppose. However,I feel I'm getting there. I'm a bit of a multi-tasker anyhow, so for me studying works best to be doing a few things at once in terms of languages. I seem to acquire more by switching or just randomly practicing then if I'm going through the traditional structured learning. I'm sure somewhere there will be a professor that will be "agast", but it works for me. Namaste-Anora

Hi Rajib.. English is really funny language. In India, we follow the British English which is more tedious than North American English. I am in this world of English for the last five years, but still my English pathetic to say the least.. Well, my first tongue is Hindi, then Bengali...There is nothing like third and fourth for me...however, I can communicate, though not authoritatively, in English and Marathi... However, I see, you did not disclose about yours...I am looking for that..

English in my country is first language ,sec is Chinese for those Chinese people ,there are Indian or Malay ,Indian and Malay is sec language to them.we got difference race in Singapore and malaysia.

English is my first language, Malayalam is my second language, Hindi is my third language, and Tamil is my fourth language. I am from Southindia. There are lots of people in our country who knows more than 10 languages. There are lots of similarities in the Southindian languages.

English is my mother tongue language. I am rather glad about that because it is a rather strange language with many confusing rules. These can be 'i' before 'e' except before a 'c' like believe or receive. "I know" is different to no. I learned French for five years at secondary school so I would say that is my second language. I am currently learning Spanish and so that is my third language. I hope to speak it fluently one day. My nationality are not known to be the masters of foreign languages unlike the Dutch people. They really impress me with their command of foreign languages.

english is my first language at home. next is chinese. and then followed by the different dialects. it's quite jumbled up for me.

I speak fluent German which is actually my first language. I was born in Germany and came here when I was 19.

Tell me about it! I had to learn English when we arrived here from Italy when I was 10 years old and yes it was difficult but being a kid I managed to learn it relatively quickly and I don't have an Italian accent, although had I been an adult it would have been a lot harder and I would definitely have a prominent Italian twang. So no English is not my first language because I went to school in Italy for five years and I am obviously fluent in Italian; I do think, dream and write only in English these days!

Hi krajibg! English is my first language. I have heard from some of my friends that it is difficult to learn. My second is Spanish. It has been hard because everything is spoken backwards to what I'm used to.LOL

I can speak Filipino, English and Spanish. Happy MyLotting!

My second tongue is English only, My first tongue is HINDI because am an Indian. It's Like English is the Most commom language that is spoken by people in the world and it was brought up by the British and spread up by them only and it's now being spoken globally. And i love spealig in English and have a little fluency in it by now.

My mothertongue is "creole". I bet you have not hear about this before. It is a rare mothertongue. Well but we do have second tongue also, which is English...and I speak French and Indian language- Hindi and Bhojpuri. I want to learn Chinese now.

No, English is not a difficult language to learn. I feel you are from India and i think you have Hindi as your mother tongue. if not then try learning this language. It is far difficult than English. What about Chinese with 100+ symbols it makes it the most difficult.

I've heard from a lot of people that English is really hard to learn. We have some really weird rules that require time to get used to, I'm sure (such as the "silent E's we throw on random words and such). I learn new things EVERY DAY about the English language and it's grammar - and it's my native language! . It's strange to think that it's a language that is offered (and sometimes even required) to be learned all across the weird. Very strange. I feel semi-fluent in Japanese, and I'm trying to learn Swedish and Russian as well right now. [em]happy[/EM]

I can say my Second Tongue is English... and 3rd Marathi... And I can speak a bit of(at least understand) Punjabi...

English is a pretty strange language. I am also fluent in German, which thankfully at least has the same alphabet (mostly) as English. I learned both languages at the same time though, which made grammar very difficult. In English, you would say "I go to the store". If you translated that into German it would be "I to the store go". I am now learning Korean and Hangul is very difficult. Hangul is a completely different alphabet that is comprised of symbols instead of letters. Either way, learning another language is great! I feel that learning a language is much easier when you're young, and am thankful that my father taught me both English and German at the same time while I was growing up.

English is the international language we need to learn it because of the globalization. English is not my first language it is my third actually. My first is Filipino the second is a dialect which is Ilonggo.