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[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

very well: Romanian, English, Spanish, German. More understanding than speaking: French, Portuquese, Italian. And I know some words(very minimal) in Hungarian. I wish I would be more fluent in French, since we go there from time to time, I wish I knew Greek, Danish, Hungarian, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese(I love Chinese food and often watch cooking videos althougb I don't understand what they are saying).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Dutch, German, English, and poorly Polish and French.

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

English and French, Japanese, and I used to be able to speak German and Sesotho.

I'm working on Spanish now.

https://www.languagetransfer.org/ is the best language learning system I've ever come across.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

A few, but the only daily useful one besides English is Toki Pona (or Toki Ma, or Kokanu as it's now called).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Fluent english and arabic.

Learning latin, esperanto and ukrainian (not good at them, but i can read cyrillic fluently)

As for scripts only, i can read hebrew and greek (not understand, i'm just interested in the scripts)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Fluently, only English.

To enough range to ask for a hospital, Spanish and ASL.

For enough to curse a little, add in french.

I know a handful of martial arts related words in Japanese, though I never use them nowadays.

Past that, we're talking either jargon or a handful of words picked up at random.

Now, I'm beastly with medical terminology, which has roots in Latin and Greek, so it sometimes seems like I speak a little of those, but it falls apart fast.

If you want to consider math a language (and I do in the colloquial sense), I'm not quite fluent, but I can get by.

I genuinely suck at learning languages. Vocabulary, I do fine with. It's crossing the barrier into expressing ideas with a language as a whole that's failboat.

What's kinda funny to me is that I can, in Spanish, use multiple accents. I naturally fall into the Castilian patterns I learned in high school, tinged by my own southern accent. But, I can switch to that Castilian without my accent with a little effort. I curse in a Mexico City accent because I learned that from a girlfriend that grew up there.

But I've tried to pick up Gaelic, since I have some family that speak it, and couldn't get past a handful of words before I could tell it was going to end up the same as Spanish for me.

Tried going deeper into Japanese, but didn't have the time to even get as far as I did with Spanish.

I did pick up extra Latin, to the point I can read it okay, but I can't speak it for shit.

ASL, I was super disappointed how bad I was at it. I took a class on a lark for medical ASL, and just loved how it works. Then I took two semesters of it and discovered that my dawning arthritis made practicing hard, and quit so I could focus on other classes that I could develop skill in. But I still love Sign. The people that are fluent in it, and compose poetry with it are just next level awesome. I just can't follow them lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Lady , I only speak two languages: English and bad English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

English, some Spanish, can read some French, and can read Middle English

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

English, Spanish, and Latin, with a few pleasantries in German, French, Italian, Japanese, Lakota, and Dutch.

Well, okay: in Dutch it's only cursing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Luxembourgish, German, French, English, moderate amounts of Dutch and a bit of Italian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

English, French - and just enough Klingon to offend someone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Swedish and English, a tiny ammount of Spannish

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