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What language do you guys speak? (self.nostupidquestions)
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I speak English, I'm learning my heritage language Norwegian.

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[-] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 24 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] illi@piefed.social 27 points 2 months ago

Perhaps asking which languages you don't speak woulf work better in your case, holly shit.

[-] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 8 points 2 months ago

Haha, there are 7000 languages on our planet. Would be a looong list :)

[-] tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 points 2 months ago

We all have different standards of what “speaking a language” means, but good on you.

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[-] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago

Native Portuguese, “decent “ English

[-] may_be 12 points 2 months ago

Eu falo português bastante bem, oiii

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

!languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

That’s a curated place for people who enjoy language learning. This community offers a broader and more diverse sample

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

That's my bad, I didn't mean to say the post belongs elsewhere. I'll edit the comment

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[-] Zimphire@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

The Dutch are so dope, I feel every Dutch person knows like at least 5 languages

[-] wieson@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

It's easier for them to reach higher education, because they're so tall.

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[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

Native english speaker, B1 spanish.

[-] may_be 9 points 2 months ago

Pero todavía olvido palabras por algunas cosas y cometo errores. Entiendo más de lo que hablo.

[-] may_be 5 points 2 months ago

¡Hola! Todavía estoy aprendiendo español pero puedo hablar en español bastante bien también

[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago

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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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 points 2 months ago
[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

and then I told that teaching lady the only crayons I need are the red, white, and blue

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[-] gergolippai@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

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

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Bojler eladó!

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago
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[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] phr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥`)

[-] aeiou@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 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.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago

Igpay Atinlay.

[-] uuj8za@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

Aquí español 👋 an inglish obvis

[-] aldhissla@piefed.world 6 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 5 points 2 months ago

I only speak two languages, English and bad English

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[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

Guess the shithole country!

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[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[-] phr@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 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!)

[-] Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

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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[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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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[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 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

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

English and Vietnamese

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

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 points 2 months ago

Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.

[-] Fondots@lemmy.world 4 points 2 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

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently

[-] Griffus@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

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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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 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.

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
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