I"m korean and I can't really speak korean very well.
I"m not ashamed or anything but sometimes it kinda sucks esp when you try to communicate to other korean fobs and etc..




So who can't speak their native language fluently/well???
Do you feel embarassed about it??

I'm chinese and I can't speak cantonese very well
sometimes I'm embarassed cuz I have this americanish accent and my canto sounds terrible *hides face with paperbag*

mee
i suck at laos and viet LOL
its embarassing when your parents' friends ring your house and you pick up.T_T
i sound terrible but im working on it!

I can't speak chinese well at all T_T And forget taiwanese, I know nothing.

It's pretty embarrassing when I have to communicate with relatives.

i grew up in phils and came in australia around when i was 10
and after like 3 years i didnt remember how to speak tagalog/visaya anymore o_O"
and my mum got angry at me >< she wouldnt talk to me if i didnt talk to her in filo
so i had to learn --' everytime i talked to her i would write it down first
making sure if it makes sense LOL
but now im pretty good cos i jsut went there last year for a month!
but sometimes i cant pronouce them. im not fluent either.

omgosh i cant speak fluent korean as well !

i dont really mind since im brought up in the western culture...but once u mix with those other koreans...and u cant speak it well...u get embrassed and it gets annoying ..>.<

but i guess the people know what im trying to say..haha... i speak conglish = korean and english mixed together xD

same here! it sucks cuhz i used to go to chinese school too and the teacher would always comment on how im not pronouncing a word correctly... i must sound like a fob to her the way she sounds like a fob to me TT__TT but when others speak to me in chinese, i always understand what they say XD

well I was born and raised in the Phil but I admit that I'm not that good in tagalog.
Actually, I think i suck.. I'm not used to it. I'd rather speak in bisaya or english.
weird, right? rofl =))

I think I can speak my native language (tagalog) a little bit -- like, the basics and stuff.
but fluently? nope x)
I can full understand though.
most of the time anyway^^

apparently i sounds ok, kind of fluent. but i think i sound jibberish.. so i get a little embrassed.

*raises hand*

I can't speak chinese (teo chew) fluently at all ): Although I do know most of the things my relatives say, I have really bad grammar structure and pronounciation in my language.

Not really that embarrased though. It'd be nice if I could speak my own language fluently, but hell, I know fluent English lol (:<

I'm not very fluent in my Vietnamese >.<
Lately, I'm starting to forget some words...of my own native language

If you have trouble speaking it, then it's most probably not your native language. I think the category most of you are putting your language into is "ethnic language."

English is my native language and I have no problems speaking it. As for my ethnic language, Laotian, I'm not too great.

Im Chinese (Parents from Hong Kong) and my cantonese is shocking! although I was praised by a sals assistant in hong kong once for speaking good canto for a BBC ha

However seeing I was born adn bred in england I can speak English

i'm vietnamese and not really that fluent. i'd have to say though that i think i've really improved cause i use to suck so bad so im proud of myself it can get embarrassing sometimes when im speaking to elders or relatives in vietnam =/ or sometimes i just don't speak to them @ all cause they'll laugh at me when they hear how broken i sound T^T

Viet here and cant even put out a whole sentence without puting in some other weird words.

I do feel ashamed because my parents friends alway brag about their child knows the language fluently...
But I will manage the language some day, I guess......

ahh I can't speak korean that well either :[
the other day I said hwakyo instead of hyokwa (effective)
eep ><

me.

can't speak korean. i only care because i can't exactly communicate with extended family back in korea. i basically have no korean friends but i don't care.

and i really really have no interest in getting to know korean fobs.

I'm aussie born chinese, and I can't speak my own language very well...
someday when I'll have time, I'll definitely learn!

i'm chinese but i'm far from fluent in speaking mandarin.
i'm living in the philippines though, so that's my excuse. xD

Haha ... I spoke Vietnamese fluently until I went to school.
Now I can speak below moderately.

i can't speak any languages fluently, but english O_O
i can understand vietnamese, but my speaking is shocking, lol.
teochew.... mm, i understand most, like conversational, and i can speak it in conversations and stuff, but it's still not fluent!

i can't speak my native language fluently and i always have trouble translating something to my parents.
but i can understand it pretty well =]

im vietnamese and I just speak the easiest sentences o.o,

i'm filipino and i can't speak tagalog at all! i mean i know some words/phrases but i have an english accent most of the time =/ but i understand it! so i'm not too worried.

I'm Chinese/Korean and I speak Mandarin fluently, but I can't speak Korean that well.
When my 할머니 or 할아버지 asks me things I have no idea how to say things back. They even bought me Korean books. HAH how frustrating. T_T

ME!

my family makes fun of me when I mix english and viet together.

I can't speak cantonese too fluent either,
I can just about understand but nothing complicated,
sometimes in some cantonese dramas I don't know what they're talking about,
only basic stuff,
I find it so embarrasing, since I can only say Yes or No or simple phrases TT_____TT!!

the only language im 100% fluent in is english T_T
i used to go to chinese school when i was younger.
but i forgot everything i learned :x
i can only understand simple stuff.

I'm Vietnamese and my parents say that my Vietnamese isn't very good. I can speak the every day ordinary language but not read or write. It takes me a longggggggg time to read or write something in Vietnamese. But I don't have that broken accent or whatever you call it...O.o That's too...white-washed if people do it on purpose.

born + raised in America = fluent in English
sucks cause my mom buys lots of Korean dramas dubbed in Khmer
and i really wanna watch it but can't cause i dont understand a thing

and what REALLY SUCKS is that they wont take me to Cambodia till i can speak and understand Khmer
>.> puu~

haha me! *guilty* I can speak vietnamese fluently, but when it comes to speaking with other fluent viets, it's like O.O

Me!
I can not speak Hungarian that well at all. When I was little I was able to speak it pretty well, but now. Nope.

My excuse: None. Just laziness. That language is so damn complicated.

i can speak it fluently but i struggle when i speak it because i can't say a certain word but i know how setence go and stuff it's just vocabulary i have trouble with


lol, thats why i never speak viet or chinese with anyone else but my parents because compare to mine there like professional

I can speak Canto well, but I don't know the supertraditional sayings and proverbs.
And I can barely read it ><;; My reading ability's about HK third grade, maybe? Almost? T_T

I'm chinese and I can barely speak it ._.
Maybe when I'm older I'll learn but not now

i use to be able to speak Cambodian like a running faucet, but once I entered high school it went down from there. i wasn't use to having a language class, therefore i concentrated mostly on learning Japanese. Cambodian just slipped my mind, and ever since entering high school i didn't hang out with my family as much as i use to, which are the people who i usually spoke Cambodian with. sooooo, i mean it's not totally gone. it's just, i'm not as fluent as i was before.

i could speak tagalog perfectly well [:

i can speak vietnamese fluently

i was born in korea then moved in the US when i was one...
i can speak korean fairly well, but not fluently.
i usually understand people when they're talking, but i mix up words when i try to speak!
watching k-dramas helped a lot, but now i basically know all the love/relationship words and not a lot of sophisticated vocabulary/phrases...

me....i cant pronounce some words correctly...and i suck at translating...><

i find it very embarassing -______-

I can't really speak korean, although I can sound out words and stuff..o__o And I understand most of it when someone talks to me. Like..my parents.

I'm half Chinese but I couldn't speak the language. Luckily, the school forced me to learn a 3rd language and I chose Mandarin. So now I'm in the learning state.

I forgot most of my Korean ever since I started college...I'm so busy and it's starting to get rusty. I need to refresh hahaha.

I'm korean & I can't speak it for my life, but it doesn't affect me at all.
I was born in America, and I don't have a legit reason for learning Korean. Both my parents speak English, and most of my friends aren't asian. Or if they are, they know english.

Acutally, it really irritates me when fobs can't refuse to speak english.
Especially if they've been here for 2+ years.

I'm not that fluent in Vietnamese, but I can understand a lot. I go to Viet school (-________-) and that doesn't
even help me that much lol. I'm slowly learning how to read & write.

I hate it when I see kids speaking oh so fluently and people praising them all the time >.<

I'm not super fluent in vietnamese but I can kinda speak it. My relatives tell me that when I speak, I'm too 'direct' or my accent sounds funny.. I can't read/write it for crap.

Ah, attending 5+ years of Korean school and still can't speak or write fluently. I'M A FAILURE. I always end up mixing Korean and English when I talk to my grandparents >w>; Well, I was born and raised on American soil for all my life. NEVER been to Korea (ugh, sad OTL) So, uh, yeah I'm pretty whitewashed.

I'M A FAILURE TT_TT
I'M A DISGRACE TO THE VIETNAMESE COUNTRY!!

just kidding. HEY, atleast i can understand and speak (:
i just have an american accent xP