can you speak the language of your ethnicity?

[Svipdag]

I understood the question to mean "Can I speak the language of my parents and grandparents ?" My answer would have been "Poorly". The Norwegian which I learnt at my grandmother's knee was bondespraak, literally, "farmer talk". It was a 19th century (she was born in 1882) rustic dialect most closely related to the Bergen dialect.

Thus, it is difficult for me to understand modern Norwegian which is based on "riksmaal", which is mostly Danish, as spoken in the Oslo area. As far as I can tell, the attempt to produce a truly Norwegian language: Nynorsk ("New Norwegian") has not succeeded. I have never met anyone who speaks it.

[щрбл]

Yes, I can speak the language of my ethnicity. (+ a few others)

[Dandelion]

Yep. I speak Dutch.

[kkk77]

I'm Portuguese, my parents are Portuguese, my grandparents are Portuguese, they all speak Portuguese and I speak Portuguese.

[Empecinado]

All of them except Basque.

[Alvy83]

Fluently:

Spanish - Native tongue

English - Second language


Basic:

Portuguese - mostly written, basic conversational skills

[Arekusu]

All of them except Basque.

Aranese too?

[Empecinado]

Aranese too?

I forgot it, no I can't.

[kelly sea]

I understood the question to mean "Can I speak the language of my parents and grandparents ?" My answer would have been "Poorly". The Norwegian which I learnt at my grandmother's knee was bondespraak, literally, "farmer talk". It was a 19th century (she was born in 1882) rustic dialect most closely related to the Bergen dialect.

Thus, it is difficult for me to understand modern Norwegian which is based on "riksmaal", which is mostly Danish, as spoken in the Oslo area. As far as I can tell, the attempt to produce a truly Norwegian language: Nynorsk ("New Norwegian") has not succeeded. I have never met anyone who speaks it.

that's exactly what i meant. thank you so much for your helpful answer

[Marusya]

I would not be a part of it if I couldn't

Yeah, I think it would be a very hard life to be a Bulgarian living in Bulgaria who couldn't speak and understand Bulgarian.