How many of you speak english as a second language?
And what is your original or native language.

You know you should have English on the list because English is my native language

Tu tienes German y Italian dos veses. Pidele a Chicken que te lo agregle.

There is an "Other" option

My primary language is german (since i'm form Switzerland), but i also speak english, spanish (castellano and 2 other spanish languages) and russian (about 60% :D). Thats about it ;)

Thats it?;)

I'm German, but i moved to the states 5 years ago and since moved from Chocago to Evansville, Indiana, to Birmingham, Alabama... who knows i might end up in San Antonio Texas next year...

Hehe

Just for your record, since I was 10, I can listen to 7 languages. On my 15th, 9 languages, and now, I can listen to 11 languages (and probably more, can't keep count).

cheers,
:beer:

Originally posted by one_web
Tu tienes German y Italian dos veses. Pidele a Chicken que te lo agregle.

There is an "Other" option

Wow I did not notice that had happened.

Thanks

Originally posted by one_web
Thats it?;)

pfff .. indeed

english, portuguese, french, spanish (and castellano), italian, and a little german

not to mention all the wonderfull and different AMERICAN forms of english, yo'all know what I mean :D

Originally posted by dektong
Just for your record, since I was 10, I can listen to 7 languages. On my 15th, 9 languages, and now, I can listen to 11 languages (and probably more, can't keep count).

cheers,
:beer:

I can listen to 100+ languages maybe even more.... but I can't understand them :(

Originally posted by muppie


I can listen to 100+ languages maybe even more.... but I can't understand them :(

You can hear them, not listen. To listen is to be able to understand what you are hearing.

Originally posted by one_web
You can hear them, not listen. To listen is to be able to understand what you are hearing. I don't think you'd find that to be a widely-accepted definition. To listen implies not just passively hearing, but making an effort or having the intent to hear something. Whether you comprehend it doesn't matter.

You certainly can listen to people speaking a language you don't understand.

but in the way dektong used the word that is the way it was used. He can listen to them and understand part of it.

Hmm, lets see.

Primary - Cantonese
Secondary - Scottish :stickout
Tertiary - English
Quadwhatever - Japanese
Ermm, pent... - Mandarin

On top of that, I have basic understanding of French, German, Spanish and around another 10 chinese languages :D

Originally posted by one_web
but in the way dektong used the word that is the way it was used. He can listen to them and understand part of it. Dektong used the word incorrectly. He should have used the word "understand." Muppie used that incorrect usage as the basis for a joke.

But this is a thread targetted at those to whom English is a second language; I couldn't let your clearly stated yet inaccurate definition stand!

You don't have Vietnamese on there. I was born in the States but they made me take ESL when I entered elementary school. But now I'm fluent in tieng anh nhung ma em khong biet tien Viet :D

Scratch that, didn't see the "Other" option. This is what happens when you lose one contact lense.

listen v. 1. Give ones attention to a sound. 2. Make an attempt to hear.

No mention of understanding there.

You also forgot to add "ASL" in the poll

That what I am :D

D'oh I hit reply instead of new thread ><

Originally posted by Locutus
Hmm, lets see.

Primary - Cantonese
Secondary - Scottish :stickout
Tertiary - English
Quadwhatever - Japanese
Ermm, pent... - Mandarin

On top of that, I have basic understanding of French, German, Spanish and around another 10 chinese languages :D

Wow, thre are a lot of multi language people up in here.

I can speak ghetto as well. What did they called...err Ebonics:D

Originally posted by netsolutions
You know you should have English on the list because English is my native language

I'm thinking that would kinda defeat the purpose of an ESL thread. (English as a SECOND language...) :D

Originally posted by Planet Z
(English as a SECOND language...) :D

True, but you should still at least list American. It is probably the most common first language of ESLers.

Originally posted by one_web
but in the way dektong used the word that is the way it was used. He can listen to them and understand part of it.

Hehehe I was just teasing dektong :)

Originally posted by cperciva
True, but you should still at least list American. It is probably the most common first language of ESLers. Followed closely by Mexican, of course; and then by Latin, as spoken thoughout Latin America.

Originally posted by cperciva
listen v. 1. Give ones attention to a sound. 2. Make an attempt to hear.

No mention of understanding there.

Exactly, my dear cperciva! People like to make assumption on what not being said ;)

cheers,
:beer:

okay I speak english primary, And i can get by barely with spanish, I know 8-9 way to cuss someone out in german and I am quite fluent in pig latin. :D

My native language is Farsi (Persian (Iran)). I've grown up in Sweden (which means I can easily talk to and understand people from Denmark and Norway) and offcourse that makes my second language Swedish. I'm also very good with English (lived in US in the past and have had English as second language in school). I've also studied German for 3 years.

I mainly speak php now, i can also speak perl and asp