You and your family's linguistic background

[CordedWhelp]

English is my primary language. From school as well as having Spanish-speaking in laws, I have some familiarity with Spanish, but am not confident in my skill with it. I can understand it a bit better than I can speak it.

My father in particular has a strong Chicago accent, and I have inherited it to some degree.

[CordedWhelp]

We prefer silence

How Germanic of you all...

[CosmoLady]

English and Afrikaans, almost entirely English since 1998 (since I was 6), some Swedish with father's family

[tropicalslavic]

All of my family are native Czech speakers except for my grandma's family on my mom's side, who are Slovak, but in the grand scheme of things, that's basically the same thing. My parents had to learn Russian in school but my dad was dumb and didn't retain any of it, my mom is still conversational. She learned English in her 20's and is merely conversational. I learned English when we first moved here at 6. I tried learning German in high school but just couldn't get into it at all.

I am familiar with a lot of Russian due to my mom speaking it frequently throughout my childhood plus our religion exposes us to a lot of Russians so I've always been around it a lot, couldn't ever be bothered to formally learn it.

[Kess]

My father: Turkish.
My mother: Karachay-Balkar is her native language. She learned Turkish at school.
Me: I am fluent in English and Turkish. My native language is Turkish, but I have been exposed to Karachay-Balkar since my childhood. I understand most words in Karachay and can speak. Nevertheless, since I don’t know the Cyrillic alphabet and have never received formal education in Karachay-Balkar, I can’t write.

[Labriego]

As an Argentinian, my native language is Spanish. My mother is an English and German language teacher, and she also teaches Yiddish and Hebrew.

In addition to Spanish I can speak Hebrew and Yiddish but with some difficulty. At this moment I'm perfecting my English. In a future, using my Yiddish as a base, I would like to learn German.

[Vessna]

English and Russian

[Oghuz]

Father: Azeri, Persian
Mother: Azeri, Kurdish, Persian

[Sarin]

Sum total of Indo-Pak partition with other socio-political events & trends post '47 have caused a big shake up in the collective psyche of the PKs . Linguistic , ethnic , casteist etc. boundaries have become blurred atleast among many of those that are domiciled outside Punjab resulting in infusion of local elements in degrees varying from case to case .

Hindi , it was in the air (though got kicked twice by mother to a nearby center teaching ethnic language in summer vacations that I often bunked in favour of cricket) . Hindi , Punjabi . Pre-school .

[Kazimiera]

German at home.
English for work and studies.
Afrikaans for work.
Xhosa at work (basic level).