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What is Your Mother Language?

What is Your Mother Language?

autor dufn -
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Hi, friends!


Today, 21 February, we celebrate International Mother Language Day! See our announcement here.

So now I am curious to know a bit more about you:

What is your mother language?

What major or funny differences have you noticed between your mother language and English?

Why do you think linguistic diversity is important?

Tell us your thoughts in by clicking reply below. 

Thanks for sharing, friends!

Iya, OLS Community Manager - English. 

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Re: What is Your Mother Language?

autor dufn -
Hi ! I am Asia, and my mother leanguage is Italien. In comparison with English, my leanguage it's more complicate because we have a lots of verbs and a lot of dialects, but i still like it.
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autor Marieke OLS Community Manager -
Hi Asia! Thanks for sharing :-) I think Italian is one of the most beautiful European languages! Would you mind sharing your most favourite word in Italian? I'd love to learn!
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Re: What is Your Mother Language?

autor Emma Marti Puig -
Hi! My name is Emma and my mother language is Catalan , an incredible language that is being lost :(
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autor Ariadna Carrasco Herrera -
Hi Emma, My name is Ariadna and i can tell that it's not lost at all, it's just not a preference for most of Catalan/valencian/balearic people. If you want to speak Catalan with somebody and make a new friend estic aqui, although I consider Spanish my mother language
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autor Rebecca de Vries -
Hi! My name is Rebecca. My mother language is Dutch. They call is the cousin of the English language. Somewhere I understand that but on the other side... Pronounces are very different.
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autor Catia Duvens Pinto -
Hi, Im from Portugal, my mother language is Portuguese, and I have very difficulty speaking English. But writing is okay.
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autor Darius-Bogdan Ioan -
A funny difference is that Romanian is more phonetic — we read words as they are written, unlike English. Also, Romanian has gender for objects, but English doesn’t.
I think linguistic diversity is important because language is part of culture and identity, and it helps us understand other people better.