Montmorency wrote:I have been looking for clues, but I don't think you actually say what your L1 is (and it's not clear (to me anyway) from your profile).
That's on purpose. I "divorced" my L1 at a young age, and while I no longer feel rabid hatred for it, from the age of 17 on I've used other languages, and now English is in the top spot; I am natively fluent and have lived in English-speaking countries for more than 30 years. I am more fluent in English than I am in my L1 -- I can write decent fiction and even poetry in English, but not in my L1 anymore, and my L1 speech, while grammatically correct, is halting and clumsy. It would feel weird to advertise my L1 as anything but a language in which I am reasonably proficient, and I actually feel less affiliation with it than I do with several other languages I know less well.
