Are you more fluent in your second language compared to your first language?

@chazzief (237)
Malaysia
February 2, 2010 3:06am CST
My first language is Malay language, followed by English and Arabic. However, I realized that I'm more fluent in speaking and writing English compared to Malay. I use Malay language for daily speaking but somehow it's gotten worst day by day. I even experienced failing Malay language in my exam while scoring A plus for both Arabic and English. It's not that I don't like the language, but I found it hard when it comes to language structure and the grammar. What about you?
8 responses
• China
2 Feb 10
no,but i am concentrated on learning English now.i hope that my speaking and writing is more fluently same as Chinese.
@chazzief (237)
• Malaysia
2 Feb 10
That's awesome! I always wanted to learn to write Chinese character, and although it's pretty tricky, but I found it exciting ^^ thanks for responding!
• China
3 Feb 10
hi,i am glad that you're interested in Chinese.pardon me for speaking frankly,Chinese is more difficult than other languages to learn.but being confident and patient,you will succeed.Good Luck.
@chazzief (237)
• Malaysia
3 Feb 10
Yes! I agree, it's more challenging, but Taiwanese dramas and groups always makes me motivated to learn more ^^thank you!
• China
2 Feb 10
My first language is chinese,I used it in the normal communication.my second language is English,but I think I am not good at it.I am learning English now.I hope one day I can speak English as well as chinese.
• China
3 Feb 10
Yeah,I agree with it .Have a good time
@chazzief (237)
• Malaysia
2 Feb 10
Good luck! I believe that MyLot is one of the medium for us to improve our English, don't you agree? thank you for responding!
@shan0822 (433)
• United States
3 Feb 10
For me second language is so hard to learn. English is my second language, I found it's to hard to remember all the word and writing is so hard.Every sentence I start with I, and don't know how to expain my opinion exactly and always write wrong words!
@chazzief (237)
• Malaysia
8 Feb 10
It's okay.. it's pretty challenging to learn a new language, but as long as you have a strong will to discover new things, and not afraid to try, I'm sure you will become a good English speaker sooner ^^ Use mylot as one way of improving your English. good luck!
• China
4 Feb 10
haha, I wish I can use English fluently. My first language is Chinese, so I use it in daily life.What ever, wish you good at any language!
@chazzief (237)
• Malaysia
8 Feb 10
thank you! you can be better in English if you use it every day. in fact, you can be good at any language if you put it into practice. good luck to you too!
@arumisan (45)
• Australia
6 Feb 10
My first language is Chinese (Cantonese dialect) as both my parents spoke that language. As a child growing up in a English speaking nation, my English skills eventually exceed my speaking ability in my mother tongue. I did learn Chinese when I was a child, but it was in the Mandarin dialect (and made it harder for me to pick up the language) and due to dancing lessons I quit Chinese. However a couple of years afterwards I quit dancing (ha ha ha...) and picked up Chinese again when I began high school. I completely struggled with that language and gave up when I was in the 10th grade. I'm now going to pick it up again as I enter university :P Hopefully my luck gets better with this attempt :D So to answer your question, I am more fluent in my second language, especially since my reading and especially writing abilities are greatly diminished in my mother tongue.
@chazzief (237)
• Malaysia
8 Feb 10
haha, great to have someone in the same boat with me. sometimes, I'm afraid that people might think that I'm not a good citizen for forgetting my own language, but it can't be helped because my parents has been exposing us with English more than our first language. wow, you had dancing lesson? i always wanted to learn dancing, but i'm too fat for that! hahaha~
4 Feb 10
My first language is German, but since moving to the US, I've used it less and less. Over the years, I've become extremely fluent in English and I've lost a lot of German. I never really practiced it once we moved so it just faded away slowly. I've been practicing it a lot more lately however! One of my friend's knows more German than I do now!
@chazzief (237)
• Malaysia
8 Feb 10
oh, there are cases like that too right, when your first language acquisition decrease because of migrations and all, but it usually take less time for you to acquire it back! Germany language is beautiful! and i would like to learn it in the future ^^
• Malaysia
2 Feb 10
my mother tongue is 'tamil' which is one of the 'indian language', then use Malay n English in school i scored A for my Malay maybe because i had to put extra time for this as it determines our overall passing grades for our exams here English, yup got an A for this as well, but the papers were not that difficult, it was customized to suit the community as it is only a 2nd language but i dont write or read in tamil, as the opportunity to study the language was not available easily, furthermore passing in this language does not carry much weight in overall grades
@chazzief (237)
• Malaysia
2 Feb 10
Many of my Indian friends also don't read or write Tamil. They use it as daily conversation, but they prefer English and Malay as medium in writing and reading. Tamil language needs more exposure especially in Malaysia!
• Philippines
26 May 12
Of course i'm more fluent in my first language coz it's the language that we use at home. :) English to Arabic Translator also is available at http://aratranspro.com/english-to-arabic-translator.html