New Poll - Native Language 3n1g6j
11 years ago
Posts: 467
Quote from Xeronia 2p6w2n
What do you do if you're natively bilingual? I'm Chinese-American. Although the English is obviously better (even though the Chinese came first), I've been speaking both without much thought most of my life.
Then they are both your native languages, as far as I'm concerned.
There is no option for that, so I'd suggest answering "other", like I did.
11 years ago
Posts: 467
Quote from Sylar
Both languages belong to the same family (Latin languages) but no, they are not the same. It looks like a mix of French and Spanish (and also Italian i think) but it's really a language on its own, not a dialect of Spanish/French.
Certainly Catalan and Spanish are both Romance languages, and more specifically Western Romance languages, but...
Catalan is either part of the Occitano-Romance languages, or part of the Ibero-Romance languages.
For more info:
Wikipedia - Catalan language#Classification and relationship with other Romance languages
11 years ago
Posts: 354
Fair enough. I've learned something new. People don't think primarily in one language. Thank you for my newly acquired education.
It appears that I should have voted other then based on various posts.
11 years ago
Posts: 467
Quote from mysstris
People don't think primarily in one language.
Well you do if you're not competent (maybe fluent? Might depend on the person) in more than one language, of course, but otherwise you don't, AFAIK.
As for the native language definition, it seems to me that I'm not the only one to have answered the poll based on their personal interpretation of what "native language" is.
That is pretty much to be expected.
Unless you first present a clear definition of what is meant by "native language", for the purposes of the poll, you'll get some differing interpretations of the term.
It's not quite perfectly clear, and there are differing opinions. Even with the definitions I've posted, those could be interpreted in significantly different ways. It would, e.g., change which language(s) are my native ones.
I strongly feel that it should be defined one way, but there are not unreasonable arguments that can be made for other interpretations...
Well, the poll does ask "What would you consider to be", so I guess it's kinda appropriate 😉
The lack of Chinese on here is surprising. I guess they do have their own sites for Chinese scanlations.
11 years ago
Posts: 187
Spanish and Catalan aren't the same language, even if they are similar. Depending on the other person's knowledge, you might or might not be able to communicate with a Spanish person using Catalan, but I could also talk to a French person using Catalan and we'd more or less understand each other.
I suggest you go and look up the two languages if you're interested in the differences.
11 years ago
Posts: 1030
Portuguese here. I'm glad to see we are 4.3%, I would love to know how much of this percentage speaks brazilian portuguese. 🤨
11 years ago
Posts: 4
Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian, etc.) - votes: 105 (0.7%)
A whooping 0,7%. Soon we will dominate MU 🤣
