Any Bilingual Escapists here?
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Swedish is my mother tongue
Finnish is my secondary language, it's my second mother tongue and I speak it as well as Swedish
I speak English well enough to call it a third language
Finland is a bilingual country which means that it says in our constitution that we can choose if our mother tongue is Swedish or Finnish and we are supposed to be able to get service in both languages where ever we go (doesn't quite work thou). I am lucky in the way that my mom is Swedish speaking fin and my dad speaks almost only Finnish so I have both since birth which makes it a lot easier here.
Finnish is my secondary language, it's my second mother tongue and I speak it as well as Swedish
I speak English well enough to call it a third language
Finland is a bilingual country which means that it says in our constitution that we can choose if our mother tongue is Swedish or Finnish and we are supposed to be able to get service in both languages where ever we go (doesn't quite work thou). I am lucky in the way that my mom is Swedish speaking fin and my dad speaks almost only Finnish so I have both since birth which makes it a lot easier here.
Oui, je parle un peu de francais. Mais je suis un etudiant et avec l'ordinateur c'est difficile pour moi. J'ai l'accent francais.
for myself i only know English and enough French to have a broken conversation
once of my friends was fluent in French and English and once she moved when she was five no one spoke French where i live so she lost it and could never relearn it. she only remembers because there is video of her when she was four speaking French.
i thought it was funniest thing when she told me. I am an awful friend.
once of my friends was fluent in French and English and once she moved when she was five no one spoke French where i live so she lost it and could never relearn it. she only remembers because there is video of her when she was four speaking French.
i thought it was funniest thing when she told me. I am an awful friend.
English, First.
Latin, Second.
Portuguese, Second-and-a-quarter.
Spanish, Second-and-a-half.
Italian, Second-and-three-quarters.
German, okay, that qualifies as third.
French..., meh, okay that's fourth.
Korean..., nice to know when pwning at StarCraft.
Japanese, nice to know when Japan reinvades Korea.
... I lost count.
Wait, wait! Does L33T count? No. Fine.
Latin, Second.
Portuguese, Second-and-a-quarter.
Spanish, Second-and-a-half.
Italian, Second-and-three-quarters.
German, okay, that qualifies as third.
French..., meh, okay that's fourth.
Korean..., nice to know when pwning at StarCraft.
Japanese, nice to know when Japan reinvades Korea.
... I lost count.
Wait, wait! Does L33T count? No. Fine.
Sweadish, Finnish, English and... well a bit russian 
And some words from a few more languages =)
And I live in Finland O.O OH YEAH THAT'S HOW AWESOME I AM!!!
And some words from a few more languages =) And I live in Finland O.O OH YEAH THAT'S HOW AWESOME I AM!!!
Well i'm from Sweden so i'm fluent in that. Personally i actually think my English are better than my Swedish. I know far more words in English atleast and i often say things in English because i honestly can't remember the Swedish equivalent.
I speak English and Swedish fluently. Since Swedish is my mother tongue, I don't really have a problem understanding Danish or Norwegian.
I understand written Latin/Romance languages, and can speak/write a bit of Italian and Spanish.
Understand written German somewhat.
And that's about it
I understand written Latin/Romance languages, and can speak/write a bit of Italian and Spanish.
Understand written German somewhat.
And that's about it
fluent in both Polish and English, intermediate level in German. Also I was quite good in Russian (had to learn if for 8 years in school ) but haven't used it in a while.
Hope to learn Spanish one day.
) but haven't used it in a while.Hope to learn Spanish one day.
German and English, I am actually a native speaker in both languages.
Within both languages my accent is a good mix of several accents I picked up sometime in my life, so my current accent is completely screwed up to the point of no one being able to tell where the hell I am from, which is kind of fun I must admit.
I understand a few words of russian, french and hindi, but not as much that I would consider myself able to hold any kind of fluent conversation that does not include switching back to either of my main languages.
Within both languages my accent is a good mix of several accents I picked up sometime in my life, so my current accent is completely screwed up to the point of no one being able to tell where the hell I am from, which is kind of fun I must admit.
I understand a few words of russian, french and hindi, but not as much that I would consider myself able to hold any kind of fluent conversation that does not include switching back to either of my main languages.
I am truly billingual, French Canadian by way of Manitoba. I could speak both french or english by the time I went to kindergarten, though these days I mainly use english. Throughout the years, I've also picked up Italian, and Spanish (which I think everybody should speak, it's so easy to express yourself with a minimum of words). I'm currently struggling to learn Tagalog (Filipino) from a book, as most Tagalog speakers I know are either a)xenophobic dicks or B) don't speak english well enough to help me.
Portuguese native language, english, spanish, french secondary languages, the three of them which I can talk fluently plus basic japanese, german and italian.