<p>Hey CCers</p>
<p>I see that many apps ask for your native/mother tongue. Does this mean the language you learned to speak first, or what? Would native speakers of a language (but also fluent in English) put that language down first?</p>
<p>Thanks
poppa</p>
<p>If you know how to speak english, just put english, it makes everyone's life easier.</p>
<p>Native/mother tongue is the language you learned first. If you learned a language besides English first you should put that down, not English.</p>
<p>Don't listen to B407. IF you learned a different language first, or if English is not spoken primarily at home, then put that down, for sure.</p>
<p>well i spoke chinese from like 1-5 years old but now i've practically forgotten it even though chinese is spoken in my house. what should I put?</p>
<p>what if that my first language is chinese (relatively unheard of dialect)? I forgot how to speak that dialect, but now I usually just speak english since i can't really speak or read chinese although my parents will speak to me in mandarin. </p>
<p>i got an 800 on chinese sat though.</p>
<p>put English if you almost forget the first language you learned.</p>
<p>if your parents speak chinese, probably that's your native language . Isn't mother language another word for native language?</p>
<p>My first language wasn't English (learned something else up through about 3 yrs old) but I still put English as my native language because 1) It's spoken at home 2)when I speak the other language I speak with an American accent 3) I forgot much of the other language.</p>
<p>If your native language is not English, it is a hook! You become part of their diversity statistics. Any little advantage helps in this game. (I bet now many will suddenly 'remember' their first language!)</p>
<p>Put anything other than English if possible. It does help you in certain ways...</p>