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[Albus Dumbledore]

i have to do this project for english, and the basic question that i have is....


Who here on trap17, did not have a first language of english??

if your first language is different thatn english, and you had to learn english PLZ post here, and i will PM you...

what will be in the PM is 20 or so questions that i will ask you to answer

they will not be personal, just basic stuff thats not personal for ex: "What did you find the hardest about learning english"



keep in mind, trap17 holds my A in their hand if i dont get the answers from trap17 member (i only need one) i will fail this project, because i know no one who's first language was other than english. so please post if the above is true.

[sylenzednuke]

Well, my first language is Hindi and I had to learn English, but actually I didn't face any grave difficulties but I would be lying to say that didn't face any difficulties while learning English.
I learnt it at the age of I think 3 or 5 and now I speak English better than Hindi. I guess this is because all of the studies are based on English anyways.

Edited by sylenzednuke, 02 September 2006 - 12:18 AM.

[pixieloo]

My first language was Chinese, but I speak better English now than I do Chinese. I think it's because I learned English when I was three. I don't speak as much Chinese now as I should..

[MIGUE2k7]

My first language IS Spanish. I'm living in Mexico and I had to learn english... well, i still need to learn how to hear and speak it correctly but oh well people can understand me but i guess spanish will be always my language of every day.

[Blacklaser]

My first language is luxembourgish and I learned german and french before learning english, so basically english is only my 4th language (5th really since I also had some latin but I suck at that). I didn't find it too hard to learn but then it is pretty close to german and luxembourgish.

[brainless]

you're getting mroe than you need

My first language is German, my second is english ... now go ahead and PM me if you still need someone to help you =)

[bhavesh]

My first language is Hindi and second one is English than third is Bangla(Bangladesh's Official Language).

I usually don't speak English, but use it in writting, because the place where I live in doesn't have too many English knowing people. I have started learning english at the age of 4-5 when I got admitted in a english-medium school.

Waiting to get your questionnaire, it will be interesting to give the answers (I guess)

[apurva]

my first language is hindi..
did my schooling through english school so dont actually face any problem speaking ansd writting it.

[icemarle]

Heh... interesting. :/ I live in a country where there's a common language other than English, but surprisingly... my first language is English. My dad spoke to me in English since I was a baby. I was surrounded by English literature since the beginning. I learned Tagalog easily anyway... well... I live here... it shouldn't be hard to pick it up from everyday life, is it? Not to mention the mass media...

[CrazyRob]

well my first language was german as i was born there and lived there for 3 years but then i moved to england and can talk english as well as any English person but i can also talk fluent russian