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I'm from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mexican American. I speak English, Spanish and some Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same here! But I'm Mexican from Mexico.

Last year I've gotten to reading full-length Japanese news articles with little to no help with the Kanjis.

It's funny how many Latinos are naturally drawn to Japanese. I always blame the loads of anime we got throughout the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That’s so cool man. I’ve been pretty dedicated to studying every day. Hope to visit in a year. But yeh I think word pronunciation makes me think of Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm part Scottish, part English. I speak:

English - idiomatically
French - conversationally
Italian - I just want to reply to people in French all the time
German - I can ask where the station is
Japanaese - I can say 'I do not understand'

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

India - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and English

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Australian here.

English and basic German

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Dutch but I live in England. Speak Dutch an English fluently and French and German reasonably well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Colombian here. I speak Spanish and English. I can read Portuguese, French, Catalan, Italian and little bits of Romanian and Esperanto. I have minimal understanding of Japanese, Dutch and Hindi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm trying to balance learning Spanish and Esperanto. I'll confess I'm much better at Esperanto. I'm still not anywhere near fluent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

From Germany and know German and English. I can read Dutch and understand snippets but speaking it is beyond me.

[–] bdonvr 2 points 3 months ago

USA. English fluent, decent Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

日本人です、日本語しか話せないのであえてここも日本語で書きます

※普段は機械翻訳をつかってます

ちなみに、一般的な日本人の殆どは日本語以外を話すことはできません、日本の英語教育はあまり意味をなしていません

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Brazil. Fluent in Portuguese and English, though I understand a tiny little bit of Dutch. I can understand Spanish sometimes because of similarities between it and Portuguese.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

From USA. Fluent in English and Russian (self-taught and lived in St Petersburg and Moscow for a number of years).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Italy: Italian, English(mostly slang), some Spanish, some Esperanto, and some of my local language(Sardinian)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

US. I speak ok Mandarin, poor Spanish and bad Portuguese. And I guess English. Also I can't read Chinese reliably, so I am also illiterate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Denmark. I understand Swedish, Norwegian and German. I speak Danish, English and Dutch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

From the US. Fluent English, conversational+ japanese, and used to know basic German and french though I've mostly forgotten those. Also used to have survival level and very basic conversational Spanish. I've studied Albanian and Norwegian a bit, but don't remember enough to say anything anymore properly

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