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Sé que ciertos hechos por lo que respecta los usarios son publicos (como idiomas que hablamos), pero me pregunto si alguién ha contado cuanto hablantes nativos o países que representamos aquí y cuanto personas están aprendiendo español para quienes inglés no es la primera lengua... Estoy curioso, es todo...
I know certain information about users is public (like languages that we speak), but I wonder if anyone has ever counted how many native speakers or the number of countries that we represent here and how many people are learning Spanish for whom English is not their first language... I'm nosey, that's all...
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Many people here that regularly use SpanishDict) might be surprised to know that iI was actually born in Peru, South America, so although my parents are native English-speakers, I would have grown up hearing Spanish spoken around me for the first 18 months of my life! A black maid who spoke Spanish, worked for my parents and took care of me some of the time.
Unfortunately, I had to leave Pery with my parents when I was 18 months old so I never had the chance to learn how to speak Spanish fluently but I gre up wanting to learn the languge of my country of birth! ;(
Muchas personas aquí que usan este foro SpanishDict, con frecuencia, de verdad podrían ser soprendido al enterarse que nací en Perú, América del Sur...¡.y aunque mis padres son angloparlantes, me habian criado en un ambiente en lo cual habría escuchado la gente habla español en todas partes....durante el primer 18 meses de mi vida! Una sirvienta (criada) trabajaba por mis padres y a veces la emplearon para cuidar de mi.
¡Desgraciadamente, tuve que salir de Perú con mis padres cuando sólo tenía 18 meses de edad, por eso, nunca tenía la oportunidad de aprender cómo hablar español con fluidez, pero me crié con ganas de aprender el idioma de mi país de nacimiento!
Corrijan mi español, por favor 
I envy those who were born as bilinguals, because they had parents of different countries. It is a great advantage. For me one of my clients who worked with an international holding made the greatest impression. He was the son of French and Greek parents, was raised up in a former Italian colony of Arabic territory and attended an English school. So by childhood he was speaking 5 languages. He was working in Switzerland , where he was obliged to learn German, and he used to complain because that was the first idiom, learned from books.
Envidio a aquellos que nacieron para bilinguals, porque tenían padres de países diferentes. Es una gran ventaja. Para mí uno de mis clientes, quien trabajaba con una empresa internacional, hizo la mayor impresión. Era el hijo de padres franceses y griegos, fue criado en una antigua colonia italiana del territorio árabe y estudió en una escuela inglesa. Así pues por la infancia hablaba 5 lenguas. Trabajaba en Suiza, donde fue obligado a aprender alemán, y solía quejarse porque esto era su primera lengua, aprendida de libros.
Just from informal perusals of those who post with some regularity I know that besides English and Spanish native speakers we have:
Hungarian - Porcupine
Dutch
Swedish - annierats
Chinese
Farsi (Persian)
Hindi (Joy_Deep?)
Arabic
I'm going to guess Yoruba by Osas-baby (others in Nigeria are Igbo and Hausa)
How about it, friends, can you add to the list?
I am from Southern Nigeria , we speak Edo language.. I live in lagos so I also speak Yoruba because its the major language in Western Nigeria.
However English is my first language. Most children whose parents are educated tend to teach their kids English because its our lingua franca.
Jubilado guessed right.
Soy de Australia , nuestro idioma es diferente a la mayoría de personas de habla inglesa.
I am from Australia , and our main language is English , Ian will say ,"you could have fooled me Ray" !
Melbourne language study reveals a cacophony of diversity
More languages are spoken in Melbourne than there are countries in the world, a cacophony of 251 tongues whose voices stretch to all corners of the city.
It is a thoroughly modern metropolis, a changing city where as older European voices begin to trail off, Mandarin's volume grows louder, particularly in the inner city.
It's a city that can be justifiably proud of its linguistic diversity and one whose forefathers might scarcely recognise from the discussions around them. But demographers warn Melbourne's melting-pot status could be at risk as rising house prices force new migrants into concentrated pockets.
Across the city, three in 10 people speak a language other than English when they get home and the variety grows daily as migration reshapes a city and its people. A major analysis carried out by Fairfax Media reveals 200,000 more Melburnians are speaking a language other than English at home than a decade ago
A lot of people are surprised that my first language as a baby was French. An infant usually learns first whatever language is spoken by her mother.
Muchas personas se sorprenden al oír que de niña mi primera lengua fue francés. Una niñita por lo general aprende la lengua que habla su mamá.
