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It must? Weird... I'm better at english than my mother language.

Does that make me special or just really really weird?

At times it's really confusing even when it IS your mother tongue. XD

Lol, I do the same thing ^^. I learned English when I was... about 3? And now I'm more fluent in it than in Chinese -_-. I'm such an embarassment to my family.

4th grade was when I started having it in school, but I started before that. Music and stuff. I'd always ask my mum what parts of the songs meant and in the end, she bought me a dictionary and gave me an english book and just said "Read and learn".

I think I was... 8-10 years old or something like that. English in school was never a problem for me. I graduated from high school with an A in english. I was only oral I had, english being my second language, but when I was in the preparing room before going up to the exam, I only used 10 of 20 minutes to read through the papers I had gotten and the tape I should listen to and be able to retell the happening of. Was too easy for me.


@Topaz_Ash: You're chinese? And speak better english than chinese? Wow... Thats gotta be a first...

Why? I'm Chinese as well, but grew up in Germany and my German is better than my Chinese as well. I have a lot of friends where the same applies.

Okay yay this one I know real well.

Firstly I'd like to remind you that English is one of the WORST languages. We have tons of rules, and once you learn them all, you have to forget them because they never seem to apply.

Sometimes the lack of an "S" is because you pluralize it some other way (which I'm sure you know) like in Teeth which is the plural of Tooth.

Okay, now there are OTHER words that are always plural (which I know happens in Russian for their word for money but I don't know about other languages)

These are words like Fish, People, Money, and--you guessed it--information.

I have seen some science books say Fishes (or Fishs) and I have seen some political books use Peoples. I can't say I've ever seen someone use Informations. So I don't really know the context you're speaking about. But I can take a guess.

When people say words like People it can mean a whole culture. The American People. The Korean People. The German People. But if I wanted to talk, in the same speech, about all the people of the world. I could (shouldn't but could) I could say, All the Peoples of the World.

Like I mentioned before. English is a really messed up language. You're not meant to do that, but people do, and usually the only ones who do, are people like politicians or scientists and won't listen when they're being corrected.

And sometimes it's because it sounds better, or because no one knows better. Like with the word Sneak.

Most people I know say snuck when they want to use it in the past--including some english teachers I've had--but snuck isn't a word.

So in the end it's a crazy messed up language--even if it happens to be mine--and no technically there's not supposed to be an S at the end, since it's already plural.

I--personally--have never ever heard it with an "S" at the end. But I took my shot at a guess why.

Hope that helped.

I know what you mean, I freakin' HATE HATE HATE when people say "anyways" It bothers me, a lot.

I haven't seen anyone write it--which is a good thing I may have had to kill them--but I hate it enough when they say it.

Yep, it could be that my parents pushed me to learn English so I would fit in at school, but I feel so... ashamed to not know my mother toungue as well anymore.


*shrugs* Not really where I live. Most of my Chinese friends are second or third generation chinese, and so their parents really didn't force them to learn Chinese. I went to Chinese school, but I was really young and I didn't understand the importance of learning it. Now I want to go back and learn it all over again.


Yes, I moved from China when I was One and a half years old ^^. I live in America now, where many people try to assimilate faster, and by doing so, lose much of their culture in the process.