Italy: Italian, English(mostly slang), some Spanish, some Esperanto, and some of my local language(Sardinian)
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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 😅
French was more confusing than Spanish was to me. I'm trying to learn Spanish actually. It's a beautiful language.
United States and I speak English and a little Spanish but I wish I knew more Spanish.
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.
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'
I can say "I do not speak French" in six languages!
Me ne parolas la Francan.
Cxu bone parolas vi la Esperanton?
Mexican American. I speak English, Spanish and some Japanese.
Same here! But I'm Mexican from Mexico.
Last year I've gotten to reading full-length Japanese news articles with little to no help with the Kanjis.
It's funny how many Latinos are naturally drawn to Japanese. I always blame the loads of anime we got throughout the 90s.
That’s so cool man. I’ve been pretty dedicated to studying every day. Hope to visit in a year. But yeh I think word pronunciation makes me think of Spanish.
From USA. Fluent in English and Russian (self-taught and lived in St Petersburg and Moscow for a number of years).
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.
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.
Slovenian? Or don't I dare ask that?
Slovenian is different, it is similar and could understand something but don't know it.
I'm from The Netherlands and I speak Dutch, English, a bit of German and no French at all even though I had French in school for 13 years.
But The Netherlands has 2 official national languages, Dutch and Friesian, although English officially isn't a foreign language anymore due to the quality and quantity of English speakers and there are discussions to make English the third national language.
I wish I knew more languages, but sadly I'm really bad at learning any. Some people learn languages so fast, I'm better at math and such. I wish I knew Russian, Chinese and Spanish because I'd love to travel to old USSR republics, China and other Asian countries and South America. Knowing the most spoken languages in the world would be amazing I imagine. And I wish I knew Norwegian because I love the language and the country so much. Plus, you can communicate in Denmark and Sweden too. But luckily now we have Google translate so I could communicate even though I don't have shared languages with where I want to go.
although English officially isn't a foreign language anymore due to the quality and quantity of English speakers and there are discussions to make English the third national language.
Do you have a source for this? I'm Dutch native too, and have never heard of this.
The majority of Dutch people speak English at a decent level, but there are no non-immigrant native English speakers.
The second part is easy to answer:
- German
- Polish
- Swedish
- English
- 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.
Not completely, there are 2 Korea's. But since internet access in one is extremily limited, I can make an educated guess in which one you live right now.
Nice track record by the way.
Ah yeah :D so South Korea, just for the record ^^
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 :)
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.
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Hungarian, so beyond that that i speak english (duh) swedish, though i mostly read books on it, not a lot of swedes around, and i am trying to pick up some chinese now
There's a Hungarian hardcore band I like called Aws. It's a really neat language. I don't understand a word of it sadly. Maybe someday.
Ah, nice. Have not heard of them, funnily enough. But i am all for hardcore so there is that :D how did you learn about them?
They were on Eurovision representing Hungary. I listen to alot of non-English music. This is the song if you're interested. I think their singer passed away unfortunately.
Thanks, I’ll check it out. I don’t really follow music recently all that much so i guess it explains it
UK, trying not to be a typical one-language Anglo by learning German. I'm thankful there seems to be a large German community on Lemmy!
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