I speak English, I'm learning my heritage language Norwegian.

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[–] 24 points 5 months ago (10 children)

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.

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    One of the languages I am not sufficiently fluent in, yet, is that of Australia and USA. What does "Diction needed" mean in this context?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Diction is speech (like dire in French), and it was a bit of wordplay on the common expression 'citation needed' like the other commenter said :) Basically joking that a claim to speak a language should be backed up by saying something in that language to be believed.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    No kurienes tev zināt, ka neesmu vinkarši izmantojis tulkojuma aparātes? :)

    Eble vi devus usi telefonon en paroli kun mi. Mi ne scias.

    Pero, quien quiere, puede me llamar por exemple con Matrix. У початку просто думав, що й так ніхто мене вірятіме, якщо віряті не хоче. Und wer meenen Wörtern glohben will, tut es ja eh. So is halt det Leben.

    Aber jut, nu är nånting skrivits :)

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    i like how your german reflects eastern german accent lol dit is jut

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    Hab in nem jewissn deutschen Bundeshohptstadt ehnige Jährchen jewohnt, janz im Osten dessen.

    "Essieben na Hohptnohf, zobite!" Det kan man wohl nua liebn!

    Oßadem: wenn ick dieset Dings "spreche" werde ick öfters jfracht ob ick ohs Öhsterrroisch komme oder der Schweiz, da wa mit finnischm Akzent bahliniat, wird anscheinend zum Ledahosnträjer. Dat ick meene letzen 6 Monate dort damals für ne Firma ohs Linz jearbeitet hab, hat ooch sehnen Effekt jehabt.

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