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

    Native Portuguese, “decent “ English

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    [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    For anyone looking for more related content, here is a relevant community:

    !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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

    Native Dutch, fluent English, fluent German and French, I can carry a conversation in Spanish and Italian, and some baby steps in Japanese.

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

    Native english speaker, B1 spanish.

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

    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.

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    [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    english, hungarian, some dutch. if I'm pressed, i also know a little german.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago
    class Answer {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Java");
      }
    }
    

    relevant songNANOWAR OF STEEL - HelloWorld.java

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

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    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°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥`)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Toki a! Mi kama sona e toki pona. (mi sona toki ike)

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    Native Norwegian, fluent English, proficient Danish and Swedish, intermediate German, basic mandarin.

    Oh, and I know a lot of Spanish curse words. Probably enough to start a fight.

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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Igpay Atinlay.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Aquí español 👋 an inglish obvis

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

    Fluently? Hungarian, English, German, Romanian, and French, in that order.

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

    I only speak two languages, English and bad English

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

    English. Only. And lucky to be able to at above a fifth grade level.

    Guess the shithole country!

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。

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

    Spanish native. I got bored with English so I moved on to learning Català 🤣

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

    Native Norwegian, fluent in English, can struggle through childrens' comic books in German and sort of get by in Egyptian Arabic (or at least I could back in the day, but it's been a while).

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    most niche: studied ugaritic for 3 semesters. (not really a conversational skill but with the arabic and hebrew i know it made for a surprisingly nice "reading phoenician inscriptions at the museum"-day. see it is useful, father!)

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

    Swedish, Norwegian, and English. Can understand Danish and some German.

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

    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.

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

    Norwegian, Danish and English.

    You could add Swedish, but only because of being Norwegian, i can understand Swedish. I speak Danish because i live in Denmark.

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Native: German

    Well: English, French

    A little: Spanish, Esperanto, Latin

    Able to understand partially: Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian

    A couple of phrases: Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    English and Vietnamese

    Learning German but maybe thinking of learning some other language instead, maybe Spanish or something not sure

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Native English

    A tiny bit of French. My public school French education was a bit of a mess, lots of long-term substitutes and then substitutes for those substitutes, so none of it really stuck. If someone talks slowly I can usually catch the gist of what they're saying, but probably wouldn't be able to string the words together to respond.

    And I've gotten myself to be somewhat passable at Esperanto using Duolingo.

    I may make another run at learning French at some point.

    Wouldn't mind learning Polish, Italian, Gaelic, and/or Albanian, since that's where my ancestors came from. Never been particularly great at language-learning though so that's a huge stretch.

    Also always thought it would be cool to learn Unami (the language spoken by the Lenape people who originally lived in the area I do)

    And I've spent enough time in tiki bars that I occasionally think about learning Hawaiian or some other Polynesian language

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently

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

    Norwegian, so Swedish and also Danish if it's not too Danish and English. Enough German and Spanish to get by.

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago
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