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Tuushi wrote:

dodged that one

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?!

Somali, English, Italian

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

Planning to learn Spanish, Russian and Dutch.

Somali
English
Arabic
Amharic.. all fluent.

All fluent forgot to mention fluency

TheGrumpyGeeljire wrote: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

Susu000 wrote: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

Nous ne couvraient pas ce sujet plusieurs fois?

Susu000 wrote:All fluent forgot to mention fluency

j

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

Jabuutawi wrote:Nous ne couvraient pas ce sujet plusieurs fois?

Oui oui hon hon

thehappyone wrote:

Susu000 wrote: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.

zidane88 wrote:

Susu000 wrote: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...

thehappyone wrote:

TheGrumpyGeeljire wrote: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.

Susu000 wrote:

thehappyone wrote:

Susu000 wrote: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.