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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The Dutch are so dope, I feel every Dutch person knows like at least 5 languages
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
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Swedish, Norwegian, and English. Can understand Danish and some German.
Fluently? Hungarian, English, German, Romanian, and French, in that order.
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That's my bad, I didn't mean to say the post belongs elsewhere. I'll edit the comment
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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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Native Portuguese, “decent “ English
é isso aí caralho
Eu falo português bastante bem, oiii
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.
Vel, det skal sies at den skriftlige nordsiden har bedre grammatik en mange nordmenn jeg kjenner 👍 fortsett med det du gjør, du gjør det hvertfall riktig!!
- 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 😄)
Native english speaker, B1 spanish.
Pero todavía olvido palabras por algunas cosas y cometo errores. Entiendo más de lo que hablo.
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Aquí español 👋 an inglish obvis
Swiss German is my native language, and I'm fluent in English. My English pronunciation is garbage though.
Theoretically I can also speak German, but I'm extremely rusty in it and lack confidence, so practically I turn into a stumbling mess that can't say anything without running away to either one of the above two mid-sentence subconsciously.
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.
- Mandarin Chinese. Native, but actually not that good. Can't speak Cantonese though
- English, with heavy "American" accent. Basically native-level fluency
- Japanese. Somewhere between B2-C1 based on test results but that was a long time ago. I can probably get to C1 if/when I have the time to practice
- French. Still actively learning, around A1 across the board
I also have some passive knowledge of Dutch and German... But really passive though
English, with heavy “American” accent. Basically native-level fluency
Okay laws are so stupid. If you have native-level English and have been so Americanized that you "have an American Accent", you deserve the choice of getting Citizenship.
Wait I'm still still confused, don't student visas only exist for college? Were you here during teenage years or earlier? Is there even a non-immigrant visa for before college? Like I'm confused af. I thought kids could only come if they are a dependent of a principle immigrant on a greencard visa?
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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.
English and Vietnamese
Learning German but maybe thinking of learning some other language instead, maybe Spanish or something not sure
Norwegian, so Swedish and also Danish if it's not too Danish and English. Enough German and Spanish to get by.
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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