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What is your mother tongue (native language)?

Started by General_Zhaoyun , Oct 18 2006 08:08 AM

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Poll: What is the language you speak at home? (56 member(s) have cast votes)

What is the language you speak at home?

  1. Mandarin Chinese (15 votes [26.79%])

    Percentage of vote: 26.79%

  2. Any Chinese Dialect (such as Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka etc.) (12 votes [21.43%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.43%

  3. Any Chinese Minority language (such as Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur etc.) (2 votes [3.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

  4. English (16 votes [28.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 28.57%

  5. French (2 votes [3.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

  6. German (2 votes [3.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

  7. Spanish (2 votes [3.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

  8. Italian (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  9. Japanese (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  10. Korean (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  11. Vietnamese (1 votes [1.79%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.79%

  12. Thai (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  13. Malay (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  14. Others (please state) (4 votes [7.14%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

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#1 General_Zhaoyun

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Posted 18 October 2006 - 08:08 AM

Trying to conduct a poll for native language spoken by CHF members at home.

Please choose the language you speaks most often at home with your family members...

For me, my native language is mandarin chinese (which I speak most often).
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"夫君子之行：靜以修身，儉以養德；非淡泊無以明志，非寧靜無以致遠。" - 諸葛亮

One should seek serenity to cultivate the body, thriftiness to cultivate the morals. If you are not simple and frugal, your ambition will not sparkle. If you are not calm and cool, you will not reach far. - Zhugeliang

#2 General_Zhaoyun

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  • Languages spoken:Mandarin, Taiwanese (Hokkien), English, German, Singlish
  • Ethnic Groups or Race:Han Chinese (Taiwanese Hoklo)
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    Chinese Language, History and Culture

Posted 19 October 2006 - 09:27 PM

No reply ?
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"夫君子之行：靜以修身，儉以養德；非淡泊無以明志，非寧靜無以致遠。" - 諸葛亮

One should seek serenity to cultivate the body, thriftiness to cultivate the morals. If you are not simple and frugal, your ambition will not sparkle. If you are not calm and cool, you will not reach far. - Zhugeliang

#3 memeo

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Posted 23 November 2006 - 11:07 PM

in Home i speak indonesia language with my family members, cannot speak mandarin language again.. :(
I wonder.... :-?

#4 Tang Rui

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 07:40 PM

My mother-tongue is Swedish, I speak English with my wife, Swedish with my daughter, and my wife speaks Chinese with our daughter. Our daughter speaks baby language ... :wacko:

#5 Yihesan

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    Tujue (Turks) History, and Steppes history

Posted 10 December 2006 - 05:12 PM

My mother language is the İstanbul accent of the Anatolian dialect of Oghuz Turkish.
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#6 Intranetusa

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Posted 18 December 2006 - 09:41 PM

hmmm, Cantonese & Wu (Shanghainese) are different languages from Mandarian, not just different dialects. They use the same writing system by the words & pronounciations are vastly different...you can't understand Cantonese or Wu if you speak Mandrian and vice versa.
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#7 Kimchee

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  • Languages spoken:English
  • Ethnic Groups or Race:Caucasian
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    General Chinese Culture
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    None

Posted 19 December 2006 - 11:31 AM

I speak English with a sprinkling of Polish, Slovak, Italian, Lakota, Lenape, Puthongua and Chamorro. That's what American English is all about, right? :clapping:

Kimchee
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#8 Ohno

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Posted 19 December 2006 - 06:09 PM

No reply ?

Poor you! :charge:

I speak Mandarin at any time , any place.
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#9 poseph

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Posted 19 December 2006 - 09:44 PM

Mandarin at home, English at work. But my English is better.

#10 vfrancis

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  • Languages spoken:English, Chinese, Cantonese, French, Thai
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Posted 29 December 2006 - 10:13 AM

Speak English to family and colleagues.
Cantonese to my grandmother and a sometimes french to my ex-schoolmates.

#11 sg_han

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Posted 29 December 2006 - 10:21 AM

Hokkien to grandparents
Mandarin to parents
Mandarin/Hokkien/English to friends
大韓民國의國歌-愛國歌

#12 Liu Bei

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Posted 01 January 2007 - 05:15 PM

Mandarin at home, English at work. But my English is better.

Same here, but I speak English at school. I don't work :b_woot:
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#13 Ehuang

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 03:13 AM

Hmong

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#14 Pierre

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 10:12 PM

I speak french at home with my familly members and most of my friends. I try to speak english as often as I can so as not to forget it.

Take care

Pierre
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#15 Solid_Snake

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Posted 31 January 2007 - 11:45 AM

Mandarin Chinese, but now speaking too much english and seems to forget Mandarin Chinese, well and least how to write it. (it's a pitiful shame...)
一壶浊酒喜相逢。古今多少事，都付笑谈中。
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