Native Portuguese, “decent “ English
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Native Dutch, fluent English, fluent German and French, I can carry a conversation in Spanish and Italian, and some baby steps in Japanese.
The Dutch are so dope, I feel every Dutch person knows like at least 5 languages
It's easier for them to reach higher education, because they're so tall.
Some of the Scandinavians too! Like I knew a guy (wasn't born in Sweden) but moved at a young age and was born in Poland. He speaks Swedish, English, Polish, and probably more
Native english speaker, B1 spanish.
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.
english, hungarian, some dutch. if I'm pressed, i also know a little german.

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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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°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥`)
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.
Perhaps asking which languages you don't speak woulf work better in your case, holly shit.
We all have different standards of what “speaking a language” means, but good on you.
Diction needed.
One of the languages I am not sufficiently fluent in, yet, is that of Australia and USA. What does "Diction needed" mean in this context?
I could be wrong but I think it's a play on "citation needed" (i.e., they don't believe you)
Diction is speech (like dire in French), and it was a bit of wordplay on the common expression 'citation needed' like the other commenter said :) Basically joking that a claim to speak a language should be backed up by saying something in that language to be believed.
No kurienes tev zināt, ka neesmu vinkarši izmantojis tulkojuma aparātes? :)
Eble vi devus usi telefonon en paroli kun mi. Mi ne scias.
Pero, quien quiere, puede me llamar por exemple con Matrix. У початку просто думав, що й так ніхто мене вірятіме, якщо віряті не хоче. Und wer meenen Wörtern glohben will, tut es ja eh. So is halt det Leben.
Aber jut, nu är nånting skrivits :)
i like how your german reflects eastern german accent lol dit is jut
Hab in nem jewissn deutschen Bundeshohptstadt ehnige Jährchen jewohnt, janz im Osten dessen.
"Essieben na Hohptnohf, zobite!" Det kan man wohl nua liebn!
Oßadem: wenn ick dieset Dings "spreche" werde ick öfters jfracht ob ick ohs Öhsterrroisch komme oder der Schweiz, da wa mit finnischm Akzent bahliniat, wird anscheinend zum Ledahosnträjer. Dat ick meene letzen 6 Monate dort damals für ne Firma ohs Linz jearbeitet hab, hat ooch sehnen Effekt jehabt.
class Answer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Java");
}
}
relevant song
NANOWAR OF STEEL - HelloWorld.java
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.
Heyyyyy, en nordmenn her!!! Hvordan går det?
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.
Fluently? Hungarian, English, German, Romanian, and French, in that order.
Just one, American.
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!)
Norwegian, so Swedish and also Danish if it's not too Danish and English. Enough German and Spanish to get by.
God ettermiddag
Hvordan går det?
Spanish native. I got bored with English so I moved on to learning Català 🤣
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).
I'm a native English speaker, 但是我可以說一點中文。
English, German and Spanish at native level, decent level of french, and i can fuss together itañolo and portunhol and read it without mayor difficulties. (these are bastardised versions of Italian and Portuguese respectively, as they are quite similar to Spanish and have a high degree of mutual intelligibility)
but i got comfortable and stopped learning more :/
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
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.
Heihei!!! Det er så kult!!!
Jeg er meget nysgjerrig på hvordan du lærer deg norsk, og hvor du kommer fra 🤓
Et lite tips til en eldre, men god serie om det norske språk: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF0p_Qj0o3R-iEg6adDLXm7A5MydWF8Ow mangler noen episoder, men jeg synes de er veldig gode!
Jeg kommer fra USA!! 🇺🇸 Jeg lærer norsk fordi jeg har norsk arv og jeg hadde lært norsk siden jeg var 9 år gammel men jeg stoppet, jeg vet ikke hvorfor.
Just two, don't wanna say which for privacy reasons.
I do want learn Dutch though. I think it sounds whimsical, and I'd love to meet a Dutch woman that can beat my ass (i heard they're headstrong and dont take any shit).
English and swearing.
Used to be fluent in French, but nobody to talk to to practice so I've lost a lot of it. Basic Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, German. Learning Gaeilge.
Finnish, English and technically some Swedish. Technically because I refuse to talk it
Is a mandatory subject in school here. They can make me sit in class but not use it type of situation
But why refuse to use it?
I felt I was treated poorly and don't want the system to have the benefit of me speaking it.
Could you expand on that? As a foreigner I don’t understand why refusing to speak a language would prevent “the system” from benefiting of it.
And could you also explain what you consider poor treatment? In my country we have this image of Finland as a super advanced, super ideologically liberal, happy country
I'll try, keep in mind that this is my personal view and likely only partially represents society at large.
Background: Finland has a Swedish speaking minority, roughly 8 % of the population. Teaching the whole population both languages has a stated (no source) aim of uniting the country and securing the minority governmental services in their native language. Additionally Swedish is/was seen as opening deeper nordic cooperation. While there are some cultural differences between the Swedish speaking minority and the Finnish speaking majority these, in my view, seem insignificant and the vast majority speaks fluent Finnish.
In practice due to small number of hours and the general unwillingness of the majority to learn Swedish these goals are poorly achieved. Lack of motivation stems from both deep rooted political believes ( in practice false ones) and from the fact that Swedish is not needed as well as a backlash against the mandatory teaching of it. In all encounters I have ever had Finnish has been used as it is spoken well by both parties.
So 15 year old me thought that it was a waste of my precious time and I decided to never speak it.
After my school years technological developments have made it even more a waste of time. I should note that politically I would support removing the mandatory teaching and language requirements of civil servants if it wasn't supported by far tight autocratic forces.
I have heard stories of language based discrimination, though only few. On average (not sure about median) the minority lives longer and is wealthier, though not by a large margin
All of the above must be seen against the backdrop of me being a part of the majority and well off even within it. So in a position were it is quite easy to be liberal but also not to see problems.
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.
It's funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language
Maybe, but I think it's mostly just that it's my native language and I was a voracious reader in my childhood so I got really good at it. I do appreciate the Germanic composite nature, but I didn't, like, actively choose English.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow!
Eh, like I said, that's a future me problem. I think the "fun" way is going to be learning along with my kids. Start with the basics, consume simple media, immersion, all that. I'm not too worried about it, if I need to supplement with other methods I'll supplement. But I think the time it takes the kids to become fluent will be long and gradual enough to work for me.
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.
English and Vietnamese
Learning German but maybe thinking of learning some other language instead, maybe Spanish or something not sure
Swedish, Norwegian, and English. Can understand Danish and some German.
Toki a! Mi kama sona e toki pona. (mi sona toki ike)
- German (native)
- English (pretty well I hope; half my working life and almost all my free time spent on the internet, shows, books,... has been happening in English since, like, 8th grade)
- Japanese (learning; enough for talking about food, the weather, hobbies,... in somewhat acceptable grammar 😄)

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