Do you like your native language?

[Dags90]

I must point out that is not Swedish

Well obviously. I've seen Caramelldansen before, I can recognize Swedish.

 

[Alcamonic]

I find Swedish to be a very dull and somewhat dead language.

As a result I try to consume as much of the English medium as possible via games, movies and news articles.

 

[felbot]

i love Swedish, it always sounds like someone singing to me, although i imagine it being confusing as all hell to other people.

my favorite word? björk, my most used word? fan.

 

[Chemical Alia]

Well, English is certainly better than the "language of my people", Pennsylvania Dutch.

Worst sounding thing ever. Proof [http://deitscheblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/wann-die-weibsleit-gschefdich-sin-kenne-die-mannsleit-schpiele.m4a]

It's also not Dutch.

 

[Kerboom]

Gaelic, really upsetting nowadays, only people of 50+ knows how to speak it

I'm trying to work out why a supposedly Irish person would use the term "Gaelic". Considering it's never called "Gaelic", and only ever "Irish" or "gaeilge", your statement confuses me.

And also, even then, unless you grew up in a gaeltacht area, English would be your native language, as "native language" is defined by "the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood."

OT: Eh. I've spoken English as long as I can remember. I can speak semi-fluent Irish and French, and a bit of German. I prefer English.

The others are all unnecessarily complicated.

 

[Yosato]

English, and yes I do like it, but I don't like my native accent. Being an English northerner, we have really strong, common as hell accents that we understand fine, but once you speak to Aussies, New Zealanders, Canadians, Americans or even southern Brits some of them can hardly catch a damn word. For that reason I've started trying to annunciate everything properly lately - we tend to drop the T's in our words. Could be worse I guess; I could be Irish.

 

[thewanderer41]

Cantonese... as much as I like how musical it is... it's annoying as fuck, especially when you get an intonation wrong. And don't bother asking about the writing...

Same deal here, though it opens so much potential for puns. I however, also have to use English in most of my life, so I never learned Mandarin and have actually been told that I'm not Chinese. So yeah, native language has not been a park ride -___-

 

[Zhukov]

English?

Yeah, it's functional. Can even be quite beautiful in the right hands.

The spelling could do with some de-retardization though.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

dutch here, and I suppose it's just a mixed bag for me.

on the one hand, grammar is a nightmare that will keep biting your ass until you've left school, and no matter how much you try you can never sound bad-ass.

on the other hand, it is one of the snarkiest sounding languages I've ever come across and can almost always find something humorous in it's tone, so there's that.

 

[aden01]

First German here?
I like it and contrary to almost everybody in the world i think it sounds quite nice. And also ridiculous if spoken by foreigners. I guess its pretty hard to learn so im grateful its my native tounge.
Russian is a funny if (not trying to insult but i dont have a better word) somewhat primitive sounding language and the one with the best curses period. My father grew up in eastern europe and i was in the german military so i learned some nice words.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

My native language is Spanish and I love it. It's very easy to learn alongside English and the only difficult thing about it is writing the accents. To this day, I cannot properly place the accents on the words, despite knowing the word that the accent refers to.

 

[CityofTreez]

I like the Dutch language, yes.
It doesn't sound too aggressive or too passive and it doesn't have as many exceptions as English does.
In any case, good luck with your exams, flapdrol (How can you loathe a word like that? XD)

If you're going to throw around Dutch insults, then do it with some style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1bSW4_gzqY
(Alright, he is Flemisch, but still)

OT: I think Dutch is sort of okay. Thanks to gaming and the internet I do prefer English, though.
Also, does anyone else think Dutch sounds like German mixed with English? I've heard that a lot from non-dutch-speakers.

I can't really tell the difference between the two. If you walk up to me and speak fast in either language, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the two apart.

First German here?
I like it and contrary to almost everybody in the world i think it sounds quite nice. And also ridiculous if spoken by foreigners. I guess its pretty hard to learn so im grateful its my native tounge.
Russian is a funny if (not trying to insult but i dont have a better word) somewhat primitive sounding language and the one with the best curses period. My father grew up in eastern europe and i was in the german military so i learned some nice words.

I love the language. It sounds great in a heavy metal song so that helps.

 

[chadachada123]

English: I fucking hate it.

I much prefer Latin. Just seems more...mathematical YET poetic than English.

That said, I'm also a grammar Nazi and love looking at the mechanics of the language.

 

[Warforger]

Meh, I don't mind Bulgarian. It's not terribly useful but I wouldn't condemn it for that. Although, I wouldn't recommend people learning it - it's not terribly useful, as I said[footnote]unless you go to Bulgaria, but WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?[/footnote] and it takes some effort to learn. Yeah, chairs have genders, deal with it (they are masculine, by the way). Also, the dog is an "it" but the cat is a "she" - you'll probably get annoyed with that stuff quickly. Not as annoying as German, though.

Yes another Bulgarian online. The language itself though isn't that difficult especially if your first language is English at least in comparison to Russian and especially Serbian because the grammar is pretty similar. But really when you're in a country which doesn't speak your language you begin to like your native language better because it cuts down on the amount of people who will overhear what you're saying so you don't have to care as much how loud you are. Plus I like how you can take what would be in English a multi-word statement and say it one word in Bulgarian (although that's not exclusive to Bulgarian and is common in Europe).

Although I have pretty good incentive to go back to Bulgaria, since my Grandpa is friends with people so filthy rich it makes my California town look poor, and my town is pretty prominent for being excessively affluent and upper middle class (we're basically one of those towns where things are more expensive because they can be due to the higher incomes).

 

[Kae]

Spanish it's pretty good, it can be aggressive when it needs to be, but also really soft and romantic too, it's somewhat complicated though, as most people I know don't know around half of the words I speak with, it's also really classy if you want it to be, it's a very good language, but sometimes it makes it hard for me to translate what I want to say into English, as some words don't exist on English and the sentence has to be rearranged in a completely different way, sometimes making me say things backwards, but anyway, it's good, it comes with a good smooth sexy accent too!

 

[DoPo]

But really when you're in a country which doesn't speak your language you begin to like your native language better because it cuts down on the amount of people who will overhear what you're saying so you don't have to care as much how loud you are.

Lol, yes, that's right. Also, it gives you way more freedom when expressing yourself...like calling somebody "fat" or "ugly" without them knowing. You have the ultimate freedom of speech. Something those English only speakers are unlikely to experience.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

English can sound nice in the right hands, but for the most part feels utilitarian and dull. When I took Spanish, it was amazing how much prettier, interesting, and streamlined it was. "You mean I only have to write 'y' for 'and?'" I still don't know it very well, and anyone speaking at full speed is incomprehensible to me, but I still enjoy the sound of it.