I'm a native English speaker who has no other language, and I feel I'm in the minority here, where it seems there are lots of people who speak multiple languages.
So what is your first language?
mskeggs on 23/03/2014 - 22:55
Poll Options
- 170English Only
- 52Mandarin
- 47Cantonese
- 7Bahasa Melayu
- 37Bahasa Indonesia
- 4Thai
- 7French
- 7German
- 5Italian
- 59Vietnamese
- 6Greek
- 11Arabic
- 9Spanish
- 134Other (tell us in the comments)
Comments
My mum says I use Foul Language….
From the data above, would it be fair to say Asians love a bargain! ?
yes, especially if you're Malaysian. Buy one get 4-5 free :)
buy 2k mah powerbank get 20k mah powerbank free =_="
I wondered why there is no Japanese in the poll options. I can speak Japanese, Vietnamese and English.
Yes a SE Asian exc Viet, category would of been good.
If it ain't Dutch it ain't much!
Russian.
I had the best childhood in Mother Russia playing with AK-47s and hand grenades.
In Soviet Russia, you do not enlist in army, you are born army.
Ukrainian used to be my first language but from March 18th i speak fluent Russki.
Lemon Ruski is deliciously refreshing.
$#@T just got real O.O
AKA
Steven Seagal approves of this
+1 on Russian
Dothraki
Tamil.
Being a child of immigrants I'm sure I spoke their language before I started school however when I started kindergarten I needed improve my English and quickly forgot Laotion. On those gov job apps, I still put English as my native language because I only know food names and profanity.
OP should put up the definition of first language.. it looks like people have different ideas of what it is and its messing with the poll
and "English only" should be removed for "English" in line with the proper definition
what language u think in I reckon is a good judge!
first language was Cantonese, but educated in aus
and I think in English!do u dream in English ?
Is the poll asking what your first language is, or is it asking what other languages you can speak? 'English Only'?
valar morghulis
日本語
いいえ私はすでに食べた
いいえ、私は大学で日本語を勉強！
私はGoogle翻訳を使用します。簡単に
どーゆーこと？
I speak the language of love
german?
lol
die Sprache der Liebe
Klingon
not yap wa' Hol
Gibberish
Chinese dialect, then English, then Vietnamese when I was 12ish.
chinglish
I think it's a thing, as in not racist. It's admitting you speak English with a splash of another language, in this case Chinese.
I've heard people refer to how they speak as Singlish sometimes which is 'English with the Singaporean 'filler' particles like "lah" and "bah"; kinda like how Australians might say "um" or "ay".
So I wouldn't pull the racist card just yet.
edit This comment is starting on a new page, but is meant to be in reply to the previous 'chinglish' comment's response.
I speak english without any "asian" accent. But he seemed to jumped quickly to the general assumption that because my first language was Chinese = has asian accent.
edit: I think people just quickly jump to stereotypes/ conclusions. but whatever
i understand what your saying but as far as i understand "ching" has alawys been used as a racial slur. i have heard many similar like japlish etc as well as what i linked to in my comment "engrish" which imo is different and acceptable
edit: and reading back, i originally (mis?)took it as saying it about how someone else talks, maybe they are talking about more how they speak.
Oh I get it now. :)
Lolmao wasn't talking about himself. nod. Understood.
I know I combine Thai and English as Tinglish to make fun of someone who speaks English, but it's not easy to understand what they mean sometimes, chinglish flows better than Englese
you're
thank you for your help. without your help i would have never understood thier was another word more better i could have used… :)
Didn't mean to be offensive/racist sorry guys
there
there
oh really? its almost as if i put those in there on purpose just to piss off the grammer nazis…… ;)
no you didn't. you wish you did that
@lolmao you didn't pick up that he used the word 'more better' ?
yes I did. i hope you're trolling and not really stupid
@lolmao you didn't pick up that he used the word 'more better' ?
yea, i thought i made it obvious enough, apparently not. guess it takes a special kind of stupid.
need more than just using "your" twice replying to a comment telling me to use "you're", obviously spelling "their" wrong while using it incorrectly plus the even more obvious "more better" (perhaps i should have used "more better'er") for some people to catch on…
People like you who mix up your/you're generally use 'your' for both cases so your correct usage of 'your' twice in the second post doesn't mean anything. If you were really trying to mispell then you should've used 'you're' instead of 'your' in your reply.
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This country needs less pc police.
Anyway, the word he used was a portmanteau of Chinese and English. The one you suggested makes fun of the stereotype that asian people struggle pronouncing Rs and Ls.I am not sure if this is anything to do with racism.
I have Malaysian friends and I work closely with them. When we speak with them in English it's really funny the way they speak with their own flavor. Sometimes you would think it's completely different language. One colleague found a book written on the subject "Manglish". It says it's most beautiful language in the world or some thing similar. (I've even seen a youtube clip on this— it was hilarious) We all read that book at work and started using it when we talk to our Malaysian friends. We all enjoyed it especially them. :) If they didn't enjoy it then it would never have been fun. That was the important part.
Having said this, different people take things differently. So it's better to use these type of jokes based on individual characters.
I'm Chinglish, but I don't speak Chinese.
Born in Australia.
Mother is Chinese (born in Indonesia).
Father is English (born in England, but is half Irish and Swedish).That makes me Chinglish, right? lol
Correct!
I dunno. I still think Chinglish is how someone speaks a blend of English with a splash of Chinese.
What you describe is Eurasian.wow, rarely I found some Chinese-Indonesian descent here.
haha Good way to get an idea of the demographics of ozbargain.
Punjabi & Hindi. can read, write, speak both.
Jamaican
Sup Bob?
English plus Croatian (Yugoslav at the time) but only the bad words my grandmother taught me.
No such thing as Yugoslav.
Nepali, Hindi, English
Finally … one Nepalese..
English (First Language), Cantonese (Close to First Language), Japanese (Def Second Language).
Understands Teo Chew Dialect (cannot speak).And as a joke when people ask me how many languages I know of…. I tell them 8 that I am fluent in and 1 that I can understand, therefore about 8 languages.
They get super suprised until I tell them what languages I know….
Java
C++
Python
Perl
Ruby
JCLKlingon, Klingonian English, and English Klingon.
Alamak, like dis oso wanna ask meh? My 1st language of cos is Manglish lah…aiyoo.
Malayalam- മലയാളം
ഇവിടെ വേറെ ഏതേലും മലയാളികൾ ഉണ്ടോ
malayalam….നാട്ടിൽ എവിടെയാ….
Those characters are beautiful on screen :)
Spanish. Muy contento de conocer OZBargain. Lo visito a diario. Saludos a todos.
I speak Spanish (castellano)
Malayalam ….ഇവടെ വേറെ മലയാളികൾ ഉണ്ടേ
wow, haven't thought there'd be so many Vietnamese.
Australian Dialect, English then Chinese.
Broden speaks brodening
Gujarati, English, Kiswahili, Hindi
There were westerners here than any other when oz bargain began, now it's a multi cultural site with people all over the world, nothing wrong with that but it's interesting to see it change. As the poll shows with English with the highest votes, would be nice to see a background option as well, It would add some sentimental value on this thread.
Urdu (speak at home, can read, write and speak), but my education has been in English throughout. I also speak Punjabi (the Pakistani version, written in the Arabic/Persian script)
Marathi
I can speak Na'vi language.
sexi time
Crash: What's that sound?
Buck: It's the wind. It's speaking to us.
Eddie: What's it saying?
Buck: I don't know. I don't speak wind.
ANYONE SPEAKS WIND OVER HERE?
occasionally people do speak wind……… break wind
English, Hindi, Punjabi - in order of proficiency. Read/Write all of them.
This poll looks like they assume Ozbargains either only speak some Asian Language and maybe 2 or 3 European languages.
French, English and Korean.
I use sign language.. Where is my option. Why is there discrimination.
Can you speak louder?
ITT: cheap asians.
Tamil
Sinhala (Sri Lanka)
Ayo! Sha! Cormador? Machan. Lusuna.
Hazaragi/dari, urdu/hindi