Vladimir Nabokov grew up speaking Russian, French, and English. In fact, he learned how to read and write in English before he learned to do so in Russian.
In that regard he's actually kind of similar to me, since I also started learning English around the age of 4, and as far as I know, people are usually counted as native speakers of a language if they picked it up before the age of 5 (which I believe might be an arbitrary number used to separate school-aged children who were formally taught a language in a school setting from the ones who learned it at home).
So under the rules of my book, I would count him as an EFL from Russia who had a trilingual upbringing.

>>218982867
>the most famous bilingual Russian-English writer said Russian is better than English
>the most famous bilingual Spanish-English writer said English is better than Spanish
Cope.

yeah, it'll catch on eventually. keep going.

>>218983118
my angloid clitty leakin' sumthin fierce at this trvke

>>218982627
Doesn't hold a candle to Joyce, really.

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>>218983193
>Joyce, James. Great. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. Let people compare me to Joyce by all means, but my English is patball to Joyce's champion game. A genius.
>Ulysses. A divine work of art. Greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. Towers above the rest of Joyce's writing. Noble originality, unique lucidity of thought and style. Molly's monologue is the weakest chapter in the book. Love it for its lucidity and precision.
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Never liked it. A feeble and garrulous book.
>Finnegans Wake. A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.

>>218983118
I don't see the problem.
Russian > English > Spanish

>>218983118
>>218984032
where does chinese place in this scheme

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>>218983193
>Joyce
I am made in such a way that I do not care much for the output from his Wholesale Safety Pun Factory nor for the darknesses and unintelligibilities of his deliberately entangled language system. It seems to me he wasted his genius.

>>218984094
Ubykh > Ban-lam-gu > Putonghua > Russian > English > Spanish > Shanghainese