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  • Native Language: Swedish, English

Other spoken languages: French, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Afrikaans, and Esperanto

Home country: Sweden

Country of residence: China

Parents' home country?: Mother from Sweden, Father from Ireland, Maternal Grandparents from Sweden & Norway, Paternal Grandparents from Finland & Ireland

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  • Native Language: Italian

Other spoken languages: Polish, English,Spanish and some Russian

Home country: Italy

Country of residence:Italy

Parents' home country? My mother comes from Poland,whereas my father is Italian.

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  • Native Language: Icelandic

Other spoken languages: English and few words in Russian

Home country: Iceland

Country of residence: Iceland

Parents' home country? Iceland

My gf is Ukrainian and speaks Russian, Ukrainian and French, I'm so jealous. xD

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Autumn Season

  • Native Language: Russian, German

Other spoken languages: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese

Country of birth: Russia

Home country: Germany

Country of residence: Germany

Parents' country of birth?: Russia, Latvia (It used to be one country, so it's not as multicultural as it sounds.)

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Autumn Sunrise

  • Native Language: English

Other spoken languages: limited functional literacy in German and French; still remember some Latin from school; a tiny amount of Czech, Spanish and Swedish, and somewhat more Italian, from singing songs in those languages

Home country: Australia

Country of residence: Australia

Parents' country of birth: Australia, with ancestry mainly Irish but also some English, Scottish and Welsh

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Native Language: English
Other Spoken Languages: Spanish, German, Russian and Japanese - non fluently but to a decent level.
Home Country: England
Country of Residence: England
Parents Home Country: England, if we go back a couple of generations there is family from Northern European countries, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Jewish heritage and some Asian regions.

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thunderpetal

  • Native Language: English

Other spoken languages: German, some Dutch

Home country: USA (midwest)

Country of residence: Still the Midwestern USA

Parents' home country?: I don't even know...

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Native Language: English

Other Spoken Languages: A little Russian, Romanian and French

Home Country: UK

Country of Residence: UK

Parents Home Country: UK and Ireland

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  • Native Language: Chinese

Other spoken languages: English, Malay, a little bit of Spanish

Home country: Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

Country of residence: Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

Parents' home country?:Both are from Malaysia. Ancestors were from China ahah :D

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Native Language: erm... English is my best language

Other Spoken Languages: Spanish fluently and Farsi like a kid

Home Country: Spain

Country of Residence: Canada

Parents Home Country: Iran

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Native Language: romanian
Other spoken languages: english and hungarian (can understand a little french)
Home country: Romania
Country of residence: Romania
Parents' home country: Romania

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  • Native Language: Cantonese

Other spoken languages: English, Mandarin, tiny bit of German

Home country: Hong Kong

Country of residence: England

Parents' home country?: Mother from Indonesia (mostly Chinese ancestry), Father from China

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Native language: Mandarin, English

Other spoken languages: Swedish, German, some Latin and Russian

Home country: Singapore

Country of residence: Singapore

Parents' home country: Singapore

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  • Native Language: French

Other spoken languages: English (pretty much fluently), some Italian, Espagnol and German (understand most of it), and I can "ask for the bathroom" (meaning I barely speak) in Russian and Greek.

Home country: Switzerland

Country of residence: Switzerland

Parents' home country: Father is French (raised in France then Switzerland), Mother is Swiss/Austrian/German (raised in Switzerland).

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Native language: Catalan

Other spoken languages: Spanish and English.

Home country: Catalonia.

Country of residence: Catalonia.

Parents' home country: Catalonia.

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  • Native Language: Russian

Other spoken languages: English and a bit of Italian

Home country: Russia (there was the USSR when I was born)

Country of residence: Russia

Parents' home country?: the USSR (specifically Russia)

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  • Native Language: Swedish

Other Spoken Languages: English, German, Japanese

Home Country: Sweden

Country of Residence: Sweden

Parents' Home Country: Sweden

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Native language: german, mandarin (even though I have to admit that my vocabulary is really simple)

Other spoken languages: english, a bit dutch, arabic (just the basics)
Home country: Germany
Country of residence: Germany
Parents' home country: mother from germany, father from sichuan (china)

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Darth Fuu

  • Native Language: Spanish

Other spoken languages: English and a little of Korean

Home country: Chile (Santiago)

Country of residence: Chile... Santiago xD

Parents' home country?: Dad was from France and Mom was from Chile

This year i'm travelling to USA and the UK!!! :D

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hopeisnotlost
On 12/5/2011 at 5:53 PM, Guest member25959 said:

Basically a newer, more extended version of the European Users thread (No worries, this isn't the replacement, feel free to post there is you wish).

So where are you from? What's your native language? (English? GTFO! (joking of course tongue.gif ) ) what languages can you speak? I'm curious!

Hereś an example:

  • Native Language: Latvian
  • Other spoken languages: Latvian, some Russian, a little Lithuanian
  • Home country: Canada (Ontario)
  • Country of residence: Canada... still Ontario
  • Parents' home country?: Mom is Latvian and Estonian, dad is descended from a German (Prussia) family

Native language: English(walks over to door and then realizes you were joking)

other languages: Learning a few languages not fluent in them through..

Home country: United states

country of residence: United states

Home country of parents: Umm....I don´t know?

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aeimquy159
  • Native Language: English
  • Other spoken languages: none
  • Home country: America
  • Country of residence: America
  • Parents' home country?: America. My family has been in America since the mid 1600s
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  • Native Language: German, Danish
  • Other spoken languages: English fluently, grew up with it, but is is not native
  • Home country: Germany
  • Country of residence: Germany
  • Parents' home country?: Well my mother is from Northern Germany, went to danish school, is and ever was (Like the rest of her Family) a part of the Danish minority in Norther Germany. My fathers parents are German, but moved to Great Britain, where my father and his siblings grew up, went to school and Studied (In Edinburgh, to be accurate)
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Guest Deus Ex Infinity

Native Language: German

 

Other spoken languages: English

 

Home country: Austria/Germany

 

Country of residence: Germany

 

Parents' home country?: Mother from Austria, Father from Germany

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J. van Deijck

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slothdetective
  • Native Language: Finnish
  • Other spoken languages: English, (Swedish, French, Spanish)
  • Home country: Finland
  • Country of residence: Finland
  • Parents' home country?: Finland
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Silk Bones
  • Native Language: English
  • Other Spoken Languages: German, French, miniscule amount of Spanish, and very little Russian
  • Home Country: United States
  • Country of Residence: United States (Hoping to one day change that)
  • Parents' Home Country: United States

 

 

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  • Native Language: Cebuano
  • Other spoken languages: English, Tagalog; hoping to learn French, Italian, Spanish, German and Norwegian someday
  • Home country: Philippines
  • Country of residence: Philippines
  • Parents' home country: Both parents are from the Philippines
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notfeelingit98

Native Language: Czech

Other spoken languages: English, a tiny bit of French (dissapointing, after 4 years of studying it)

Home country: Czech Republic

Country of residence: same as above

Parents' home country?: My mum's got family in Austria, my father is partially from Poland

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