From Germany and i speak German, English and Spanish. I can survive daily life in French and Catalan, but its pretty rough. Currently, i am learning Persian :)
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From the Netherlands. I speak English and Dutch pretty much on the same level. I can work my way around German if I've been in a German speaking country for a couple of days. I can speak French if I really need to and I'm currently learning Portuguese. Understanding Portuguese has made me also understand Italian and Spanish a bit better.
Dutch too. Fluent in English, my French is quite good and I can manage German (though my grammar is horrible).
I did learn Latin so I understand Italian and Spanish if it's written and not too complex.
Swedish: Native English: Fluent to the point where it might as well be native Spanish: Alright, probably upper B2
Önskar att vi hade ett lite mer aktiv community på lemmy, men ałła som kan svenska kan tydligen också engelska och behöver tydligen ingen svenskspråkig community eller så ^^
Jag gör mitt bästa för att hålla lite liv i [email protected]. Jag är inte jättebra på att posta annat än nyheter jag bryr mig om dock, vilket leder till lite enformighet.
Oj av någon anledning har jag inte joinat den än. Fortsätt så, jag själv bor nu i Korea därför är det ännu svårare att bara se något man kan post om just Sverige, men ville hålla mig uppdaterat.
Och oss som lära sig svenska kan också följa med och kanske öva med riktig svensk folk. Det låter kul
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Born & raised in the US, lived in Poland for the past several years. Speak a good bit of polish, enough to navigate most interactions with strangers but not enough for deep conversations with the father-in-law.
Just saying you'll probably have a better time asking this in a casual conversation community. To answer the question though I'm Egyptian and I speak Arabic, English, Japanese and a bit of Chinese.
US. English is the only language I know and I'm pretty fuckin bad at it lol.
From Croatia, can speak Croatia/Serbian/Bosnian at native level.
Know english decently enough, can somewhat understand some small amount of german ( cousins that live in germany ), and can understand most balkan/slav languages.
Dabbled into japanese with duolingo back in highschool almost 7 years ago and stopped cause tf is up with their writting system.
stopped cause tf is up with their writting systems.
FTFY.
I'm from the UK and speak English and am fluent in British Sign Language. I can speak enough French and Spanish to navigate a short holiday, which means I suck at both.
Also US
English of course
I took a few years of French in middle and high school, not much of it stuck. A couple basic words and phrases, and if they speak slowly and clearly I can usually get the gist of what someone is saying and fake my way through some reading.
The story of my French education is a mess, full of long term substitutes, substitute-substitutes, a sad lonely man whose spirit was absolutely broken by the kids who had him first semester before I had him and got fired a couple weeks before the end of the school year, and a lady who was absolutely baffled by the fact that her French 3 class barely spoke any French because the first 2 years of our French education was a total waste.
A handful of Spanish words and phrases from middle school "exploratory" Spanish class for a couple months and working in a warehouse for a few years where I was one of only a handful of native English speakers, but nowhere close to conversational.
And I've been teaching myself Esperanto, which has been going rather well. It's hard to say how conversational I am because there's not a whole lot of esperantists running around to chat with, but I'm reading at probably about a 2nd grade level, which is something I suppose.
Hi! I'm French, living in Germany, fluent in French, German, and English, conversational Japanese
I’m from the US and English is my native language. I took French in high school and minored in it in college and was actually pretty fluent in it for a while. A decade after graduating I married a native French speaker from Quebec, but our semiannual trips to Quebec to visit her parents now remind me just how much fluency I’ve lost. I’m still fine in common daily tasks but get into a deeper conversation and I start floundering.
I used to work in a technical role at a Spanish-language TV station and picked up some, but that’s also disappearing now ten years on.
I guess it’s a use it or lose it situation.
I’m from England and I only really speak English. I speak a little French because I lived in Morocco for a few years but it’s really not that good.
One thing I learnt while living overseas is that while English people aren’t very good at speaking other languages, we’re really rather good at understanding foreigners trying to speak our language, even when they get half the words wrong and use a really thick accent.
we’re really rather good at understanding foreigners trying to speak our language, even when they get half the words wrong and use a really thick accent.
This is actually something I only realized after coming to Japan. It's surprising how much English tolerates mistakes when a small-ish mistake can completely throw off a Japanese speaker from what you're talking about. I wonder how other languages compare.
I'm from Japan and Japanese is my first language. I hate it.
I hate it.
Can you elaborate?
I also wonder, what is the hubbub
Dutch but I live in England. Speak Dutch an English fluently and French and German reasonably well.
Australian here.
English and basic German
USA. English fluent, decent Spanish.
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