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Specifically, while at home, do you mostly speak (one of) your country's official language(s) (or main language(s) if there is no official one), or a foreign language?

Specifics, please.

Poll coming in a mo'.


Enlgish and cockney!

English

and some Punjabi

Depends who I'm talking to... English with my boyfriend, German with my housemate, French with the neighbours...

Mainly English but when family is over usually punjabi.

At home I speak a mixture of Spanish, French and Cree. Mostly I repeat myself three or four times (in possible) when speaking to my kids, so they get used to each language (including English). But anyway, Spanish is the main language we use in the home.

Engliish and occasionally a few sentences of German. my mum is german, but i'm hardly fluent.


edit: lol! its quite something when it timewarps the OP to the last post in the thread :p

Specifically, while at home, do you mostly speak (one of) your country's official language(s) (or main language(s) if there is no official one), or a foreign language?

Specifics, please.

Pig Latin

English

and some Punjabi

Ohh I know a little Gurmakhi, but only what I call temple gurmakhi, hehe hardly any Punjabi at all. Umm Perhaps ghunda munda! Bwahahaha

I speak English at home, probably 99% of the time. If my boyfriend feels like practicing his French, we speak that occasionally. When I have to count things, I have this odd habit of doing it in Italian.

Specifically, while at home, do you mostly speak (one of) your country's official language(s) (or main language(s) if there is no official one), or a foreign language?

Specifics, please.

We speak English at home. That said, I know a few other languages well enough to speak them overseas.

My son is in a French immersion program - he speaks it well enough now for me to converse with him (much to the chagrin of his brother and sister).

Oi! Give me my OP back, ye bastards! :p

I speak French (national language) and English (from my immigrant mother). I use both equally. If I ever have kids, I intend to teach them English as well as French.

I speak Luxemburgish at home, German if I'm at the university and french if I'm at a shop or talking to our cleaning lady or the workmen. And in sumer, while I'm working at the airport (baggage claim departement) I also have to speak English and Spanish...

Oi! Give me my OP back, ye bastards! :p

No. ALL YOUR OP ARE BELONG TO US! :p

Spanish, although we combine a lot of languages. I speak english and italian, my older brother french and catala, my younger brother japanese, and my father latin and euskera.

My house, with the right dose of anger, can turn into Babel in seconds.

Oi! Give me my OP back, ye bastards! :pAt least you still show up on the main page as the OP. Let's see how long until jolt notices... :p

Also, just to be a Cassandra: your poll will end up skewed because a general "immigrant ancestry" is casting too wide a net. Practically all Americans will be voting for the second option even though in the vast majority of cases their ancestors immigrated generations ago, which is probably not really what you're talking about.

My mother's side of the family came from Italy like 3 generations ago - of course none of their relatives living here today speak Italian at home.

Spanish, although we combine a lot of languages. I speak english and italian, my older brother french and catala, my younger brother japanese, and my father latin and euskera.

My house, with the right dose of anger, can turn into Babel in seconds.

Sounds entertaining. :)

Mostly English, with the odd bit of Irish here and there.

Also, bugger, voted the wrong option :(

I speak English and Japanese with my parents, or a hybrid of the two languages. I don't know if there's any pattern, just whichever one seems more appropriate.

Where from?

My guess? Nal Hutta. :p

Live in Australia and always speak English. Not sure when my family moved here, but at least three or four generations ago at the least; but who gives a fuck.

Also, just to be a Cassandra: your poll will end up skewed because a general "immigrant ancestry" is casting too wide a net. Practically all Americans will be voting for the second option even though in the vast majority of cases their ancestors immigrated generations ago, which is probably not really what you're talking about.


That's why I said little or no immigrant ancestry... although it's a matter of perspective I suppose.

Not sure when my family moved here

Where from?

That's why I said little or no immigrant ancestry... although it's a matter of perspective I suppose.

"Y'awl sayin' ahm nawt Scotch too, boay?"

I don't like the poll, and where the hell is the OP?

EDIT: 19,000!!!!

Where from?

I have literally no idea, except that we are "white".

Specifically, while at home, do you mostly speak (one of) your country's official language(s) (or main language(s) if there is no official one), or a foreign language?

Specifics, please.

There you are!

I speak American English.

English mostly, with a mixture of Mandarin and Cantonese. I'm Canadian-born, but my mother and father are from Taiwan and Hong Kong, respectively.

At home I speak the national language, Icelandic.

And occasionally some english and danish at work.

My mother's side of the family came from Italy like 3 generations ago - of course none of their relatives living here today speak Italian at home.

Why "of course", that's a pity.

At home I speak:
italian to my kids (and cat)
czech to my wife
english when I spend too much time on the forums
latin when i want to show off
french when i have to

At home my wife speaks:
czech to my kids (and cat)
italian to me
russian when I spend too much time on the forums
english when she has to

The best time I have with languages is visiting with a good friend of mine and her Albanian husband. She doesn't speak Albanian, so they tend to converse in Greek. I can understand a bit of Greek, mostly because it's somewhat similar (at times) to Spanish...so sometimes he'll say something to me in Greek, and I'll respond in Spanish and we generally understand one another. However, when we really seek clarity, we'll both speak in French...but my friend doesn't speak French, so then it needs to be translated back to her.

Point is, I don't care what you speak...somehow, someway we can have an actual conversation :D

Wife and I speak English and Arabic mostly. We also sometimes throw in French too. Our kids speak English and Arabic too. I am a native English speaker and she is native Arabic and French.

Why "of course", that's a pity.

At home I speak:
italian to my kids (and cat)
czech to my wife
english when I spend too much time on the forums
latin when i want to show off
french when i have to

At home my wife speaks:
czech to my kids (and cat)
italian to me
russian when I spend too much time on the forums
english when she has toYour cat is bilingual? Not bad.

English, English, and English. Meaning that the national language is English, I speak English at home, and my immigrant ancestors also spoke English even before they immigrated to the US, though not always as their native language. (One of my great-grandmothers, for example, grew up bilingual, speaking English and Irish, but probably would have considered Irish her native language.)

I talk 'strayun mate.

Two languages - English and foul.

Really wish I had the ability to speak another language, let alone the opportunity to.

I'm fluent in normal Mid-Western English, Southern English, and almost fluent in Canadian.

I babble meaninglessly. :)

Although English is not my national language, I mostly speak it at home, because both of my roommates are Chinese.

In fact, all of the four roommates I've had during the last six months, have been Chinese; hence my nation's name.

I live on my own, but presuming there were others crammed into my tiny pad...

I would speak one of the Official Languages here in Canada, English; I picked the second option in the poll (I am six generations Irish on my Mom's side, and four or five generations Scottish on my Dad's). Sadly, the last one to speak Gaelic is my paternal grandfather, and even he only remembers a few words.

My hope for the future is to have a bilingual or perhaps trilingual household, but obviously that depends on who I marry. I am hoping to avoid hitching up with an Anglophone.

I speak English but I can understand a bit of Vietnamese, which is what my parents sometimes speak to me in.

English FTW

Depends who I'm talking to... English with my boyfriend, German with my housemate, French with the neighbours...

isn't there some poem or quote that goes like that?

isn't there some poem or quote that goes like that?

There is...
The only part I remember is 'French to my cook' though. I have no idea why I remembered that part and not the others...

At home we speak English.

isn't there some poem or quote that goes like that?

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse"
-Charles V

Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of Germanic States and King of Spain

I babble meaninglessly. :)

Whenever you post I always think to myself "What a articulate well thought out post." ;)

English, mainly, it being our mother tongue, but I sometimes speak French with my mother, just because we can. :p

Whenever you post I always think to myself "What a articulate well thought out post." ;)

You're beginning to catch on. ;)

we mostly speak English, we have been known to speak some Klingon, and we are all learning foreign languages so we practice those a lot.

Swedish.

German, mostly - but the way I look at it when around my pals, it's a fifty-fünfzig Mix of German and English. English words or even whole phrases incorporated into our gibberish. It's terrible, but what can you do?