How many languages do you speak?

[thehappyone]

dodged that one

[Skyflyguy]

Equally fluent in afsomali and English.
Also knew Xabashi as a kid but forget it as I grew up, I still remember one phrase though and that is "anchi yataaleh?!" Which means nayaa where is it?!

[Susu000]

Somali, English, Italian

[TheGrumpyGeeljire]

English- 1st language
Somali- 85% Arabic-80%

Planning to learn Spanish, Russian and Dutch.

[zidane88]

Somali
English
Arabic
Amharic.. all fluent.

[Susu000]

All fluent forgot to mention fluency

[thehappyone]

English- 1st language
Somali- 85% Arabic-80%

Planning to learn Spanish, Russian and Dutch.

Just because you speak english most fluently doesn't make it your first language

[thehappyone]

Somali, English, Italian

Italian is the best language mentioned so far if only my parents taught me their Italian instead of all these other ugly languages

[Jabuutawi]

Nous ne couvraient pas ce sujet plusieurs fois?

[zidane88]

All fluent forgot to mention fluency

j

Ho dimenticato il mio figlio Italiano. Che cosa fare a questo proposito?

[MayDay777]

Nous ne couvraient pas ce sujet plusieurs fois?

Oui oui hon hon

[Susu000]

Somali, English, Italian

Italian is the best language mentioned so far if only my parents taught me their Italian instead of all these other ugly languages

We moved to Italy 1991 when I was three years old when the civil war broke out( yes I revealed my age) and we lived in Italy until i was twelve, mum and dad got divorced and mum decided to move to the uk to join her siblings and mother. I still used to go every summer to visit daddy until I was old enough to refuse or atleast shorten the visit.

My dad studied in Italy and went their in the 70s at a very young age and he actually speaks better Italian than Somali. But I personally consider Italian completely useless as its not the language of commerce and only spoken in Italy and some parts of Switzerland and Croatia.

I would trade my Italian for French or Spanish or even Portuguese l, because Brazil is expected to be one of the financially booming countries within the next 20 years and I thing Portuguese would be a good language to know then.

[Susu000]

All fluent forgot to mention fluency

j

Ho dimenticato il mio figlio Italiano. Che cosa fare a questo proposito?

Hai dimenticato il tuo figlio? In che senso?

You just that you forgot your Italian son?

Sei l'hai dimenticato, ti raccomando di cercare di ricordare dove l'hai dimenticato...

[TheGrumpyGeeljire]

English- 1st language
Somali- 85% Arabic-80%

Planning to learn Spanish, Russian and Dutch.

Just because you speak english most fluently doesn't make it your first language

My Somali was non-existent until I went on holiday to Burco 4 years ago. I only spoke English back then.

[thehappyone]

Somali, English, Italian

Italian is the best language mentioned so far if only my parents taught me their Italian instead of all these other ugly languages

We moved to Italy 1991 when I was three years old when the civil war broke out( yes I revealed my age) and we lived in Italy until i was twelve, mum and dad got divorced and mum decided to move to the uk to join her siblings and mother. I still used to go every summer to visit daddy until I was old enough to refuse or atleast shorten the visit.

My dad studied in Italy and went their in the 70s at a very young age and he actually speaks better Italian than Somali. But I personally consider Italian completely useless as its not the language of commerce and only spoken in Italy and some parts of Switzerland and Croatia.

I would trade my Italian for French or Spanish or even Portuguese l, because Brazil is expected to be one of the financially booming countries within the next 20 years and I thing Portuguese would be a good language to know then.

That's the whole reason it's Apart from older generation, you hardly see any somalis speak italian. It's rarity makes it interesting. I bet when you tell white people you speak italian they are surprised. I have many italian colleagues, they are afraid to gossip around me cause they know somalis who speak italian. There are too many poor countries around the world that speak portuguese/french/english. Commercially you're more likely to do better in a language that's short in supply.

I have a similar background as you. Parents moved to italy in 1990, I was 2/3, a year later they moved to holland where I started kindergarden. Aged 12 moved to the uk eventhough I was at a brilliant school. Now I speak english, dutch, somali, but none like a native.