What's your native language?

[Doug Nelson]

Since it's still new, I'm acting as a bit of a greeter in our chat rooms. It's fun to meet you all "in person". But it underscores that RetouchPRO users are from all over, and speak many languages natively.

So, what's your native language? Are you comfortable speaking about technical topics (such as retouching) in any other languages?

Mine is English, of course (or "American", if you prefer).

[amica999]

Doug, it's fun having the possibility to "meet" some people here. Once we get used to it, I think it will become a crowded place. My native language is german, and yes, I am comfortable with speaking english and if I have not forgotten all, I get by with italian as well...

[041567970]

Nice, I speak english, german and serbian. My native language is slovene (the country is Slovenia). I am comfortable speaking about technical stuff in english.

[Swampy]

English (with a southern accent) :-) Perhaps, as things progress, you could set up language rooms, Doug.

[swarbees]

English ---from Idaho originally but now Texas.. Still no southern accent I don't think or at least the natives here don't think so.

[superkoax]

I speak Bergensk! :P A dialect in the Norwegian language...We are loud and proud... www.brann.no

[Diego81]

I'm from Colombia living in the UK. native language spanish , I speak a bit of italian and portugues (all 3 are quite similar THE ROMAN LENGUAGES) also speak english and yes I feel confortable spaking about tech stuff in english.

[dweekley]

only English I'm afraid. I love the French language but have butchered it enough that I'll stick to English :-)
Doreen

[byRo]

My native language is English (UK), but after 30 years in Brazil I must admit that I feel more comfortable speaking Portuguese.

Rô

[bazza64]

Just plain English(with an Aussie accent), It will be good 'talking' to people from all over the world with a common interest. First time for me was yesterday with Doug and Flora,
nice people, good fun.

[katew]

Mine's British English.

[John 2C]

My native language is English with a Kiwi accent, but after a big night out, I am quite fluent in gibberish !

[Iconogenic]

Eastern dialect of Ukrainian and ukrainian dialect of Russian over here Speaking technical stuff best in English though.

[Flora]

Originally Posted by bazza64

Just plain English(with an Aussie accent)... First time for me was yesterday with Doug and Flora

There now, bazza... I knew there was an accent but I couldn't quite place it!!!

My native language is Italian

I am comfortable speaking English, German and Spanish

Speaking technical stuff best in English, though ... (helps hiding my ignorance with the excuse of using a 'foreign' language)

[lurch]

American English here. I've studied German and Russian, but so long ago I'm virtually useless.

[David Stevenson]

I speak several languages fluently...English, American, Scottish, Canadian, and Australian

[Vernon]

English and Spanish in equal portions for me. I do recall a little French, too, but only enough to get me into trouble.

By default: English

[James D Pixeler]

Hi every oneJust want to say Hello .
I been looking here for some time,like it very much
I speak english,french,and i'm learning spanish,which i like a lot
I am from Quebec,Montreal more precisely.

[Gary Richardson]

English is my native tongue, though I do speak some German and French.

Neither fluently, so I wouldn't be happy talking technical in either.

[laura.lala]

My native language is Romanian and I speak English and Portuguese fluently.

[Oskari-]

Finnish is my native language and english is my strongest foreign language. I also speak german and swedish but not so fluently. So if you want to drop me a line, please write it in english or finnish

[dennisu]

I'm from the Netherlands, so my native language is Dutch. I can also speak German. Maybe a bit strange... but I'm having difficulties talking tech stuff in my native language. All technical terms I use and know are in English... For me English is 'the' common tech-language. Maybe because I always want 'English' versions of all kind of things and mostly software. When I work on another PC with Dutch software and OS... I'm really relying on locations of things... If I search for technically named things I get lost.... wondering how they should have translated it... ;-)

[camilla_k]

hi

my native language is norwegian.
i live in the uk and you would not be able to guess where i am from.

geek tech english is fine with me.

[BagLady]

American English (Texan)... I've lost the southern accent because I've done quite a bit of traveling and ended up in Italy, where I've spent almost half of my life!!! Obviously, I'm comfortable with English an Italian. Sometimes my Italian is better! Scary!!!

[nadeena]

Im from Lebanon and I speak Arabic
I am comfortable speaking technical stuff in english.

Best Regards,
nadeen

[_Steve_]

I'm from Norway, and therefor my native language is...??.....that's correct.. Norwegian!

And btw, the link Superkoaxs got on his post, is to a shitty football-team...not even the best in Norway...cuz thats' MY team....www.stabak.no

...but ain't gonna turn this post into another topic!!!
Native language = Norwegian!

[Krystyna]

My native language is Polish, English is my second language as I emigrated with my family from Poland to Canada about 20 years ago.
I’m comfortable with reading and speaking in English, with writing I’m a little bit shy.
Best regards,
Christine

[GFD]

My native language is German and hope you'll understand my English.

[sissi]

This is actually my first post... I'm from iceland... so mine is Icelandic

[drcscape]

Hi everybody. My native language is Norwegian. Looking forward to exploring this wonderful site.