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Is English your first language? (by handsometity)

 handsometity 
2-Dec-14 7:00 pm
English is my third language and if given chance to express my views in first or second language,i can do it better.Don't be too harsh to me.

 

 

 
 
 MikeN2014 (8)    (42 / M-F / New York)
2-Dec-14 8:45 pm
@handsometity: sounds like you are very good with you're english, no complaints. And as for myself, yes english is my first language as it should be in the United States and not a second language.

 

 



Last edited by MikeN2014; 2-Dec-14 8:45 pm.
 
 
 pinket 
2-Dec-14 8:52 pm
@handsometity:English is my second language..here in nigeria we have more than five hundred languages...

 

 

 
 
 pinket 
2-Dec-14 8:54 pm
I have to type in bits or my phone will log me out..we have our own type of english modified our own way

 

 

 
 
 pinket 
2-Dec-14 8:55 pm
Which we call pidgin or broken english..lol..spoken by most nigerians

 

 

 
 
 pinket 
2-Dec-14 8:58 pm
Some dont understand english at all...especially the rural dwellers n few illiterate ones...local languages re used to teach in most rural schools too

 

 

 
 
 pinket 
2-Dec-14 9:01 pm
So when we cut n nail n join some english spellings...words...n use the wrong adjectives...i hope we will not be crucified...lol

 

 

 
 
 lilpoorgirl30 
2-Dec-14 9:53 pm
My third language

 

 

 
 
 handsometity 
3-Dec-14 3:08 am
@MikeN2014: Kudos i'm farmiliar with both American & English english.

 

 

 
 
 handsometity 
3-Dec-14 3:12 am
@pinket: I Like that!

 

 

 
 
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