Native Language

Parents Forum
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<p>Hi I was wondering if I could get an adults opinion on this?
I was wondering what I should put as my native language and what it actually means. I know its the first language however I’ve heard some places that it is the language that you talk and think in. </p>

<p>Heres where it gets kind of confusing for me. I was adopted from Russia when I was 3 so I knew how to speak russian but only a 3 year olds knowledge of the language. Then I was adopted and brought to the US and have spoke English ever since and I think and talk in English. So far I have put Russian as my native language but is that correct?</p>

<p>Thanks! </p>

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<p>I believe your native language would be English. At this point, can you converse, read and write in Russian? If not, I wouldn’t use that.</p>

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<p>Yeah I cant do anything really in Russian except say a handful of words. And Thanks! </p>

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<p>If English has been your daily home langauge since age 3, and is the langauge you first learned to read and write, that would be your native language. </p>