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

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

Mexican here:

Spanish & English - Fluent

Japanese - Intermediate-advanced

French - Still learning but it's so similar to Spanish it feels like cheating 😅

United States and I speak English and a little Spanish but I wish I knew more Spanish.

American, I speak English, Thai, and Korean.

India - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and English

From Mexico Magico, and I speak Spanish, English, enough French and enough Portuguese brasileiro to get by. And I am currently working on improving my Korean because I live in a city that has a huge community.

Lithuanian.

I speak Lithuanian, English, some Swedish and traces of Russian.

South Africa and pretty much just English. Apparently I was fairly fluent in Zulu when I was little kid, before starting school and losing it. And we learnt Afrikaans in school but Afrikaans kids went to Afrikaans schools and I grew up and lived in English speaking areas so it was never used. If I tried to speak Afrikaans now, I would embarrass myself but I can mostly read it and understand someone if they're talking slow enough and I'm concentrating hard enough.

Honestly something that pisses me off is that despite going through school in the 'new' South Africa, the new government never bothered making sure we learnt to communicate with each other. So instead of learning Zulu and being able to freely communicate with the majority of the population, we learnt Afrikaans because they never fucking bothered to change it.

I can also understand very small bits and pieces of written and spoken German from high school but that's barely worth mentioning. Also, I can kinda sometimes understand a little bit of written Dutch because it's remotely similar to Afrikaans.

Polish living in Poland, I know English, I don't speak it much though, currently learning Japanese

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'

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

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

The UK.

I am fluent in English and good enough in Mandarin to get by.

Earlier in life I was passable at French in France, but I have lost that now. It's been overwritten by the Mandarin from having spent a few years in the PRC teaching English.

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.

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

Depends what you mean.

By country of birth: I'm from PRC

As in "Where are you posting from?": USA

I speak Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and the the basic words of Spanish such as: ¡Hola!, Uno, Dos, Tres, Bruenos Dias, Muy Bien, ¿e tu?, Me habla pizza (Thanks, Spanish class. Still can't get the Spanish alphabet song out of my head lol 😅). And I can read like English (obviously), most basic Chinese characters, I think I know the top 100 of them, I'm more confident in identifying the characters if its in simplified. And techically, I can read the Kanji parts of Japanese (since they are basically Chinese). I hear some Japanese and Koreans words and can make out some of the words because they are so close to Cantonese. (I think Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese, decended from a common language). I could only write in English, after 10+ years of never using Chinese, I can't write shit beside like few basic words and my name in Chinese.

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

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.

From Croatia, I'm multilingual!

English

Croatian

Serbian

Bosnian

Serbo-croatian

Montenegrin

Probably missing some.

The second part is easy to answer:

1. German
2. Polish
3. Swedish
4. English
5. Korean (just started learning.

The first part is a bit more complicated, depending on what you are actually asking, where and who you are.

• If you're asking where I live then it's Korea.
• If you're asking where I came from to Korea then it's Sweden where I lived for 15 years
• If you're asking what nationality I feel I belong to with my heart then it's Germany where all my ancestors are from
• If you're asking where I was born then it's Poland

I hope you his answers your question.