How many of you here do NOT speak English at home ?

[OinkBoink]

I speak three languages. English, Hindi and Telugu. I use all of them at home. Though I can speak Hindi and Telugu fairly fluently, I can't read or write them properly (because I studied in an English language school). I tend to speak Hindi with my parents but even that's mixed with a lot of English words in between and flat out English sentences sometimes (especially when I have to explain something technical for which I don't know the words in any other language than English). It's like we just keep switching languages, mid-sentence sometimes.

How 'bout you guys ?

 

[DesiPower]

Hindi with my wife, Bengali with my side of the family, English with my kids (they understand but do not speak Indian languages)

 

[SheHateMe]

Japanese mostly. Over Skype with friends back in Japan for Language exchange and extra practice. I also speak to my Japanese professor in mostly Japanese unless I am not sure how to express what I want to say...shes on facebook, so I get to talk to her practically everyday after class.

I wish I had more access to native speakers, I feel like my speaking (and in some ways, writing) is hindered because of it, I can read and understand it very well.

 

[SandEagle]

hinglish and poonjabi

 

[bigrash]

Hindi with my wife, Bengali with my side of the family, English with my kids (they understand but do not speak Indian languages)

Apne bhalo achen? Ami ekhane nef korte ashesi.

 

[bigrash]

English with my wife and my siblings, but Bengali with my parents.

 

[Arcadio]

I speak Spanish with my relatives.

 

[rivan]

English with my parents and kids. Pointing and grunting mostly with my wife.

 

[Drako]

Esperanto at home, English otherwise.

 

[DesiPower]

Apne bhalo achen? Ami ekhane nef korte ashesi.

shob bahlo, koroon, koroon, khoob nef koroon, shasthor jonne khoob bhalo

arey, btw, saala sandeagle tao bangla bolte pare

 

[Broheim]

danish primarily. I'll sometimes answer my littlebrother in german because he can't speak a word of it, it pisses him off to my endless amusement.

 

[NetWareHead]

When I lived at home, Italian with my parents. With my sister and rest of cousins/family in our generation, mostly English although some understand Italian more than others.

 

[Eureka]

Chinese at home. English everywhere else.

 

[KMFJD]

Limburgish

 

[OinkBoink]

BTW, all you people who speak Chinese, Japanese, Spanish etc. (everything other than English basically), is your vocabulary in these languages as extensive as in English?

I mean, I just don't know how to say words like 'abstract', 'extrapolate', 'arbitrary', 'euthanasia' etc. in any language other than English.

 

[bigrash]

shob bahlo, koroon, koroon, khoob nef koroon, shasthor jonne khoob bhalo

arey, btw, saala sandeagle tao bangla bolte pare

lol kaze nef na korle shomoi kate na.

Ekta notun threade amra shobai bangla bhashai kotha boli. C'mon sandeagle, tui kothai?

 

[Printer Bandit]

only know one hindi word: benchod

 

[SheHateMe]

BTW, all you people who speak Chinese, Japanese, Spanish etc. (everything other than English basically), is your vocabulary in these languages as extensive as in English?

I mean, I just don't know how to say words like 'abstract', 'extrapolate', 'arbitrary', 'euthanasia' etc. in any language other than English.

Yes, I am not well versed in Technical Japanese at all...and I really don't need to be as I can learn that vocabulary on a need to know basis....pretty much the same way you learned to use big words in English. The learning process is the same.

 

[DesiPower]

only know one hindi word: benchod

Who is "Ben"?

 

[zoiks]

Urdu with my parents but English with everyone else.

 

[SandEagle]

lol kaze nef na korle shomoi kate na.

Ekta notun threade amra shobai bangla bhashai kotha boli. C'mon sandeagle, tui kothai?

ha bhaisab, asi ami. ar ee ki faltu baltu? kaze khaz khor. taka emna gashe dhorehna . amar bangla off quite a bit (ABCD) l, lulz

 

[kag]

In my day-to-day life, I only speak french. I only "speak" english on the internet!

OinkBoink: no, it's the opposite way. French is my native language, so it's actually in english that I have a (more) limited vocabulary.

 

[SandEagle]

In my day-to-day life, I only speak french. I only "speak" english on the internet!

OinkBoink: no, it's the opposite way. French is my native language, so it's actually in english that I have a (more) limited vocabulary.

quesque tu es cherchez avec moi? vous le veux du beurre?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt6e_vDvovo

 

[OinkBoink]

In my day-to-day life, I only speak french. I only "speak" english on the internet!

OinkBoink: no, it's the opposite way. French is my native language, so it's actually in english that I have a (more) limited vocabulary.

Well, English isn't technically my native language either (if by native language you mean the language that has been spoken right up your family tree for eons), but it's the language I'm most fluent in both because I studied in an English language school and having lived in urban India my whole life, it has always been an important bridge language for a lot of us who do not know each others' languages (India has way too many languages).

In fact, even if you go to rural areas in India where hardly any people know/speak English, you'll notice that there's at least one English word in every few sentences they speak.

 

[Slew Foot]

I communicate exclusively in burps and farts at thome