Is english your mother tongue?

MikeK61

German as mother language, english and some hungarian because my mother was born there.

reon

Italian is my mother tongue

carlberger

German speaker, my english is quite ok as I like to think. I can somehow understand the news in dutch. I can read , write and mostly understand Javascript and Rust, but rarely speak it 🙂

brent

Clintre My theory, if I was a betting man (I'm not) is in 30 days when most people have voted, non-English speakers on this forum will outnumber native speakers by a fraction. Something like 55% non-native vs 45% native. something like that.
I could be really wrong.
Will check back on Valentine's Day ❤️

Clintre

brent I could see that. On my Solseek survey it was about 68% for English, but that was language settings not native language and was users from Reddit as well.

Sebastian

Haha. I am also curious where this poll goes. So far I am surprised that native english speakers are outnumbered.

bubba66

English because I'm English and a little Ukrainian as my father was Ukrainian.

SOLUSfiddler

bubba66
I think you are a decent size Ukrainian, not little. :-)

wazjf

I'm from Quebec, Canada and my first language is French but I can read, write and understand English pretty well and my spoken english is not bad but you can definitely tell I am from Quebec with my accent.

banger

English also as I am from England the mothership. Also Basic and Vibe coding with help from search engines but I dont speak it either. 😃

penny-farthing

This post is a great initiative, thank you.
French is my native language.
During my middle and high school years, I learned English as a first language (for 7 years) and German (for 3 years).
But I don't know them well enough to follow a conversation or read a book.
That's why it is essential for me to have a good numeric translator to understand the discussions on this forum or others too, but also to read topics on the web written in these languages, or even others.

Staudey

(Austrian) German is my native language. My English is okay, but my Spanish, which was the second foreign language I was taught in school, is unfortunately atrocious and by now I've forgotten most of what I'd learned. Use it or lose it, and I never really used it much.

I'm a fan of learning new languages in theory but never have enough discipline to actually go through with it long-term.

stocc

Staudey I'm a fan of learning new languages in theory but never have enough discipline to actually go through with it long-term.

I know exactly what you mean! 🙂

kwl

English is my first language but it's not my native one. That's Irish. I also speak French and German pretty well. I have a working knowledge of Spanish and Dutch. I addition I can read Italian but not speak it. Same goes for Scottish Gaelic. I know some Russian words and can read the Cyrillic alphabet.

elfprince

My mother tongue is Hungarian, but because I was born in Soviet Ukraine, my first learned language was Russian.
Then, from 7, I learned Hungarian (because we moved to Hungary).
After 15, we moved to Canada. So, English became my native language, as the other two are hardly used.

jhansen

Sebastian i am German and live in Italy. I read and write in German, Italian and English

TraceyC

My native language is Brooklyn... I mean English, having grown up in the US. I studied years of French in middle school, and can hold a very basic conversation and make my way around a city. I've been studying German for a couple of years, and can understand some written or spoken things but am not yet comfortable speaking with it.

qk4-li3

TraceyC My native language is Brooklyn... I mean English

What a fun take on the subject (dialects, that is). I steal that, but tweak it like this:

"Mun alkuperänen äitinkiäli on toi tampereemmurre, seittemänkytä luvulta, elikkäs oikeen selvää suamee."

Freely translated from Tampere dialect: "My original mother tongue is Tampere dialect, from seventies, which was proper Finnish."

As a typical Finn (suomalainen), I speak Finnish (suomea) and understand and speak English much better than Swedish. Last time I communicated (in physical world) with Swede, it was at record fairs and all in English.

ForumPheasant

Diesen Antworten sind sehr interessant! English native with some home and instructed German personally. I suppose it makes sense how dispersed the responses are due to the nature of open source and Linux. The more the better I say. A more open computing space and community ultimately leads to a more dynamic and capable operating system! But, to be frank the possibility of Solus becoming even better boggles the mind a little bit.

joluveba

My mother language is Spanish. I know some English (CAE), and some Polish.

FAb7D

Italian: big crow traslate user 😅