You and your family's linguistic background

[Talvi]

Estonian.

My parents also speak Russian and bad English. My grandparents speak Estonian and Russian... but I have never heard them speak Russian.. maybe they cant any more.

My second language is English. Then (in chronological order) I studied German, Russian at school and Japanese, Korean and Swedish (right now) in uni.

Out of all of these I can only speak Estonian, English and Japanese normally.

(oh and since my bf is Turkish Ive been looking into that, but Im too busy with other stuff.. and its not the greatest sounding language)

[Smaland]

When she was a child, my mother would converse with her mother in Swedish (I think). My mother's mother came to America from Sweden in the late 1870's, when she was a little girl.

I took some French classes in high school and college, but it didn't stick with me.

I speak and write in American English.

[Corraidh]

We've been native English speakers for the past three generations. Before then, Gaelic. My grandmother speaks Gaelic fluently, my mother doesn't speak any.

[The Ripper]

My father was raised Finnish-speaking, but he also speaks fluent Swedish. My mother is Swedish-speaking, and didn't learn Finnish properly until early adulthood, but she is completely fluent in it. My brother was sent to Finnish schools, while I was sent to Swedish schools. We speak both languages fluently, even if my brother has always been more Finnish-speaking and in fact stopped speaking Swedish entirely around the age of 15-16 with my mother after he got tired of her constantly correcting his mistakes.

So my first language is Swedish, but I've spoken Finnish as long as I remember. I learned English fluently in my early teens when I lived abroad.

Out of the three, I'd say Swedish is currently my weakest language, while my competence in Finnish and English is quite equal.

[RitinNair]

My father can speak Konkani, Hindi, Kannadi, English and French. Yes, that much languages.
My mother can only speak English, and some Hindi. Even though both are full-blooded Indians, my mother grew up in a predominantly English-speaking society (inside India, off course). Both use English at home, and when talking to me.

I can speak Hindi, English, and a little bit of Konkani.

[Bozkurt_Karabash]

Turkish. Can understand Azeri and some words in other Turkic languages. Obviously English. Some Russian, Spanish expressions.

My family only speaks Turkish.

[StonyArabia]

Adyghe and Arabic, as well English, with some Balkar here and there. Though my father makes sure we speak Adyghe at home and Arabic is seen as also important and this due to the spiritual nature of it. However the Arabic we speak is dailect of the Desert peoples not understood by many and it's close to ancient classical Arabic.

[Gaztelu]

Let's see:

My father speaks Spanish as his native language. He can also speak Cantonese, English, and Italian. He has some understanding of Basque and Portuguese.

My mother speaks Basque and Spanish at a native level. She speaks fluent English and French and can speak some Catalan.

[The Ripper]

My father can speak Konkani, Hindi, Kannadi, English and French. Yes, that much languages.
My mother can only speak English, and some Hindi. Even though both are full-blooded Indians, my mother grew up in a predominantly English-speaking society (inside India, off course). Both use English at home, and when talking to me.

I can speak Hindi, English, and a little bit of Konkani.

That's actually one of the things I thought strange when I first came into contact with Indians: they all speak English at home.

Keeping in mind, the Indians I met lived in a very international community.

[Hurrem sultana]

I speak bosnian,swedish,english and german.Father speaks bosnian and swedish,same with mother