english, hungarian, some dutch. if I'm pressed, i also know a little german.
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Eh, in all reality, only English.
I have a small amount of Spanish vocabulary, but that's not the same as speaking it.
I am almost fluent in medicalese, so I can sometimes kinda fumble my way through limited ranges of Latin.
I used to be able to do a little ASL, but never reached fluency, and I've lost damn near all of it.
Very very limited farci, almost conversational Spanish, and raised American English.
Native Polish and somewhat communicative English
English and Vietnamese
Learning German but maybe thinking of learning some other language instead, maybe Spanish or something not sure
I'm a native English speaker, 但是我可以說一點中文。
Native English, poor Italian, barely functional Spanish. I can read Italian and Spanish with a bit of effort and understand both pretty well when spoken, but my speaking is severely lacking in both.
Norwegian, so Swedish and also Danish if it's not too Danish and English. Enough German and Spanish to get by.
German natively, English fluently, basic French, a few words Japanese.
German is my first language, and also my third. When I started school I had to learn English; over the years I didn’t speak much German and I have forgotten a lot. Now I have started to re-learn German again.
Also bits of French, Spanish, Esperanto, Latin, that I picked up or started learning over the years.
English and some French (Canadian)
English and swearing.
Used to be fluent in French, but nobody to talk to to practice so I've lost a lot of it. Basic Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, German. Learning Gaeilge.
Aquí español 👋 an inglish obvis
Just one, American.
and then I told that teaching lady the only crayons I need are the red, white, and blue
English, and quite well.
I've tried Spanish, German, Japanese, Esperanto, and a smattering of others. I just don't have the mental temperament for language learning, I'm a math guy. I'm already very proficient in arguably the most useful one, and I just can't justify the time and effort that I could be using to learn other more broadly useful topics.
I promised my wife I'd learn her native language alongside our future children, but that's a future me problem.
I’ve tried Spanish, German, Japanese, Esperanto, and a smattering of others. I just don’t have the mental temperament for language learning, I’m a math guy.
It's funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language (maybe from various distinct formation languages competiting in order to shape modern english)
I promised my wife I’d learn her native language alongside our future children, but that’s a future me problem.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow! You can make it ~~easier~~ bettee for yourself by finding a fun way to do it; e.g start with duolingo for basics then play a game/watch a movie you know well in that language.
It's funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language
Maybe, but I think it's mostly just that it's my native language and I was a voracious reader in my childhood so I got really good at it. I do appreciate the Germanic composite nature, but I didn't, like, actively choose English.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow!
Eh, like I said, that's a future me problem. I think the "fun" way is going to be learning along with my kids. Start with the basics, consume simple media, immersion, all that. I'm not too worried about it, if I need to supplement with other methods I'll supplement. But I think the time it takes the kids to become fluent will be long and gradual enough to work for me.
I can read, write and speak 3 languages.
English.
हिन्दी - Hindi.
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ - Punjabi.
I know a bit of Sanskrit, but cannot actually converse in it.
Native Dutch, fluent English, fluent German and French, I can carry a conversation in Spanish and Italian, and some baby steps in Japanese.
The Dutch are so dope, I feel every Dutch person knows like at least 5 languages
Native Portuguese and English, fluent Spanish, absolutely terrible German, and the one semester of French I took just made me determined to never speak it. "Quatre-vingt-douze" isn't a number, it's an algebra problem.
I only speak two languages, English and bad English
Super green, Korben my man.
English, and trying to learn German! Haven't gotten very far yet though. Did a tiny little bit of Japanese (before picking up German) but haven't gotten very far in that either.
Yet.
-- Frost
Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.
Finnish, German, English, Ukrainian, Estonian, Swedish, Latvian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French. A little Italian and Portuguese as well. I did manage to explain some simple things in Czech some days ago, and I can read south-Slavic languages surprisingly well. And often decipher the main point of a text in Romanian.
Almost no Hungarian or Mandarin, though very simple questions are possible anyway. And then of course I can read Norwegian and Danish reasonably well, because if you know Swedish, English, German and Dutch, you already know Danish. And for a similar reason, Slovak goes.
I can speak less than five words of Albanian, Basque, Greek, Welsh, Breton, any Gaelic language or any Sámi language. Those are something should probably learn a bit, at least.
Perhaps asking which languages you don't speak woulf work better in your case, holly shit.
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We all have different standards of what “speaking a language” means, but good on you.
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English. Only. And lucky to be able to at above a fifth grade level.
Guess the shithole country!
Texas?
Native Portuguese, “decent “ English
Eu falo português bastante bem, oiii
Native english speaker, B1 spanish.
Pero todavía olvido palabras por algunas cosas y cometo errores. Entiendo más de lo que hablo.
¡Hola! Todavía estoy aprendiendo español pero puedo hablar en español bastante bien también
Native English speak (Australian) and I didn't get full marks when I did my Canadian permit residency English test. That's all I speak and apparently not well.
OnO
i found a german (federal republik of germany) text once that quoted a german text published in switzerland marking a word that was written with double-s instead of s-z-ligature (ß) with "[sic!]" as if the orthography of their neighbours was a mistake.
(´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
Igpay Atinlay.
Hebrew and English. I have tried once or twice to learn a third language but I just don't have the discipline for it.
Hebrew is my native tongue, and English I speak pretty much at a native level simply by lots and lots of being online and watching TV from a young age, and often chatting with my sister in English for no real reason. I've even got a pretty convincing American accent. In hindsight I would have preferred most British accents, but I can't seem to change it now (refer to the aforementioned discipline issue).
I still regularly talk to two of my friends in English, still for no apparent reason. We just switch between Hebrew and English arbitrarily.
Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently
Native Norwegian, fluent English, proficient Danish and Swedish, intermediate German, basic mandarin.
Oh, and I know a lot of Spanish curse words
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What?
English and French. I can understand a bit of Spanish, but learning French ruined my pronunciation. I can read Cyrillic, but know almost nothing about Russian.
仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。
Danish, English, bit of German and Spanish
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