Are you comfortable in reading your mother tongue or in English ??

Hi there, My situation I think is a little unique. I'm brought up in a country where I was educated in a language that is not my mother tongue. My mother tongue is Malay but the language I'm very comfortable with when I'm reading is English. If I read anything in my own mother tongue, I find it more difficult to understand what the writer is trying to tell me especially when I read instruction manuals for electronic products. It's easier for me to understand the manual if it's written in English. But I'm comfortable with my own mother tongue in conversations with friends as most of my friends and neighbors are Malays too.

hi varghese i am malaysian .. my mother tongue is "tamil, south indian" i never learned the written language only verbal .. the opporrtunity for us to learn this language is not much .. i learned malay n english in school .. i got good grades for both the language, can read, write and converse well in both this languages ~ malay language is not though as they basically absorbed lots of tamil, hindi and english words in their vacabulary, english ~ like most indians around the world, we just start speaking the language i enjoy both malay n english litreatures and poetry, but missed my chance in knowing the tamil creations //

I use my own language, because I does not really understand the other language. Many of the same words with my own language but different meanings. I have to look at the dictionary, and it was very uncomfortable for me.

I prefer English. I can find more good books in English, so I've gotten more used to reading English than Chinese.

I feel the most confortable reading in my mother tongue. I can speak other languages, but there will always be some words that I still haven`t learned, and having to look up the word in a dictionary sometimes is a little bothersome, so if I can read in my first language, better. English is not my first language, by the way

we were not taught our mother tongue script recently. the one we had was not our own...it was the bengali script. but now things have changed and kids nowadays are taught our own script - meitei mayek(manipuri script). maybe in their generation our mother tongue will be easier and more fluent to read. as for us unlucky ones...it's english!

I prefer English, actually.

When I borrow books at the library I usually choose Danish books, but some of the books that I am interested in haven't been translated to Danish, and they are not available at the library or in the Danish shops. In those cases I buy the English version online. I am able to read Danish as well as English, but if the book is very complicated I prefer to read it in Danish, because that is my mothertongue. I also read German books or magazines every once in a while, but most of the time I stick to Danish and English.

I can read and understand Filipino, but I'm more comfortable with English. It was my first language anyway. I can also read Spanish and French, but I suppose proficiency-wise, I'm best at English. :)

This is a very beautiful question. My mother tongue is Tamil. But all of my education from school days upwards was in English. I love to read as much in English, esp. the technical stuff. Likewise, among our siblings we use English to discuss anything, whether it is technology(understandable) or Philosophy(including Indian i.e. Hindu Philosophy). But then I have come to understand that it is better to discuss Indian Philosophy in Indian Languages. If I happen to get a technical article in Tamil or any of the languages that I know I have no problem at all in understanding.I can also write a full length technical article in Sanskrit, but there would be very few who would understand it anyway. For the people who know to read Sanskrit of some standard are hardly technically trained people. I wrote a Science Fiction story in Sanskrit, and showed it to a Sanskrit knowing person, who said it was error-free as far as language was concerned- grammar, syntax, philology etc; he wasn't able to comment on the technical content. I had actually written this story first in English fully then typed out the translation looking into this English original. Personally I liked the way, I had put it in Sanskrit too. I would only love to read and write technical stuff in other languages. I have written technical articles in Hindi which Hindi mother tongue people have found difficult to understand. This is because I go all out to use the formulated technical vocabulary, which others find difficult to decipher. This is because I am very good at Sanskrit that forms the basis of technical terminology in Indian Languages.

I am Indonesian, my native tounge very easy to learn. In Indonesia "aku" we say "aku", but in english "i" we say "ai". So, hard to say a word in english because both of languange spelling is different. I need more and more practice to improve my english capability especially to speak.

My native tongue is so easy to speak and read. It is also very easy to learn. In fact, it is being considered as one of the major languages of the modern times. Why so? Because my people had set forth into all the four corners of the world and had taught others to speak our Tagalog.

I'm lucky because my mother tongue IS English, so I have no problems there. However, when I am asked to read or even talk another language that isn't either French or Italian (and there are TONS!), I find it extremely difficult, and it reminds me of when I was a young kid again, learning my first words and coming to terms with this whole new language

I am english, but i have to agree with you. I see it in my country everyday. They will not read or learn in their mother tongue, only in english. Why do people ignore there own tongue. Are they ashamed of it, or are they just trying too hard to be english. I t is a great shame, as the afrikaans language is really a very beautifull language. The schools are even trying to get rid of the afrikaans language and that is really disgistung.

I know quite a few languages but am most comfortable with the English language. Most of my prime years has been spent in the company of those who conversed in English. The language that was used in the office was also English

in my case, my languaje is spanish, so, i fell more confortable reading in this languaje,, but using english, for example, here, i practise a lot my writing and reading comprension, and for me its gfreat!! haave a ncie day!

I am comfortable with both of them. Though English is not my mother tongue but there is no problem to read newspaper or magazines in English. But mother tongue is mother tongue it's more easier then other.

If you ask this question from any body he will reply the mother tongue is the one he/she like the most or in which any one can be comfortable. Still English is the language in which you have to be comfortable as per the market demand because if you know English you can communicate with any person in any part of the world.

In our country most newspapers and magazines are in English. We buy the English version of newspapers and magazines. As English is our second language which is also our medium of instruction, we are more comfortable reading materials in English.

well my native tongue is bengali and i am comfortable with it but being a student of english medum school i am equally comfortable with english as with my mother tongue..but i can say that bengali is not at all an easy subject