I don´t feel like I ever had a "native" language!  We spoke 2 languages in my house and when I started going to school, I used a totally different language!   I guess that means I have silent dreams (like old silent movies) and that I am incapable of thinking!    

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I don´t feel like I ever had a "native" language!  We spoke 2 languages in my house and when I started going to school, I used a totally different language!   I guess that means I have silent dreams (like old silent movies) and that I am incapable of thinking!   

Wow...that´s so awesome to have grown up with 2 languages and then in school learn a 3rd one! You are so lucky! I love languages and so wish I had more time to learn. But to grow up learning them from childhood...that´s just too cool!! Actually, you probably carry on quite a conversation in your dreams...in several different languages!! So smile , this is WAY COOL!!

couldn´t agree more with this...!!!

How many languages are there in the world?

How many languages are spoken in the world?

The Language Families of the world:

The Indo-European Family,  The Uralic-Yukaghir Family,  The Altaic Family,  The Sino-Tibetan Family,  The Amerind Family (North America),  The Amerind Family (South America) , The Indo-Pacific and Australian Families,  The Na-Dene Family, The Eskimo-Aleut Family,  The Indo-Pacific and Australian Families ,etc

According to the world media, these languages are the most important languages in the world today:
1- CHINESE –MANDARIN CHINESE
2- ENGLISH
3- SPANISH

All languages are the richness of the World.

I have a feeling of deja vu

 all the language are important if you have agood language pakage you can work and travel in

every were not english ,spanish and chines are the important  all the languages

I don´t understand what you mean in the second part of your sentence.  ´you can work and travel everywhere if you have a good language package´ - ok - but do you mean ´English, Spanish and Chinese are not important´ or ´English is not important and Spanish and Chinese are´?

I guess she tries to say there not only English, Spanish and Chinese are important but all languages. But i really think nifrtity needs a spelling revolution in all languages she knew or maybe a new keyboard.

 I have been known to dream in French and I am a long way from fluent!

 And of course there is the language of love which appears to have been missed from above and possibly one of the most important, especially if you speak only the one language and it happens to be very different from the language the person on the othe side of the bed speaks

A poem from B.R.E.:

“You need to know at least three languages

One your mother tongue

As sweet as mother´s milk

As free as mother´s milk

The other ones unfamiliar like a rooster in a hen house.”

One who knows three languages is an intellectual, well-educated, cultured and respected.

According to a Turkish proverb:

“One language is one person,”

“Two languages are two persons,”

“Three languages are three persons.”

But the language experts and psychologists say:

- "A person can solely think in their own language, can dream in their own language and can be happy in their own language,” 

- “A person cannot think in  a foreign language,”

- “A person cannot love in a foreign language,”

- “A person cannot become happy in a foreign language,”

- “A person cannot dream in a foreign language.”

- “Because a native language is just like an organism, like your ears, your eyes,  your  tongue.  your heart.”

 - “ But a person of course can speak, read, write, educate, study, learn, teach, define, tell, explain, analyze, understand, translate, work and make success in a foreign language.”

Agreeable.