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I speak English, I'm learning my heritage language Norwegian.

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 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

[–] Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] may_be@thelemmy.club 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Whoa, det er fantastisk! Jeg elsker å se mer norsktalende her!

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

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).

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

A bit of English and some Japanese...

[–] DKKHGGGj@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Finnish, English and technically some Swedish. Technically because I refuse to talk it

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 7 months ago

I only speak english and bad english

[–] aloofPenguin@piefed.world 3 points 7 months ago

native English
learned French (4 years in high school)

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago

German natively, English fluently, basic French, a few words Japanese.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Native Finnish, some swedish(= basically every Scandinavian language) and learning Latvian

Oh, and this quite niche language spoken in parts of great Britain, northern americas and basically every single country in the world called Americano

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Norwegian, Swedish, German, English, some French and maybe enough Spanish to survive a week or two.

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)
  • 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

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[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Aussie and English

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
  • 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 😄)
[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

Hebrew and English. I have tried once or twice to learn a third language but I just don't have the discipline for it.

Hebrew is my native tongue, and English I speak pretty much at a native level simply by lots and lots of being online and watching TV from a young age, and often chatting with my sister in English for no real reason. I've even got a pretty convincing American accent. In hindsight I would have preferred most British accents, but I can't seem to change it now (refer to the aforementioned discipline issue).

I still regularly talk to two of my friends in English, still for no apparent reason. We just switch between Hebrew and English arbitrarily.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago

Native Spanish, very good Catalan, good English and some (not enough to speak them) Portuguese, Italian and French.

[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm a native English speaker, 但是我可以說一點中文。

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

懂多少?

我的中文知识达到二年级水平,在国内读过书。然后就出国了。

只会打拼音,不懂怎么用手写。

(try without google translate for practice)

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[–] Nebulous_Keito@thelemmy.club 3 points 7 months ago

Bangla mainly and sometimes English but pretty less in daily life (I do understand more languages but I just don't speak them)

[–] Melobol@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hungarian, English and passively German.
Can say basic phrases in Spanish, in Italian and in Japanese.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Melobol@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Mi a helyzet a szesz kazánnal?

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[–] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

English and French. I can understand a bit of Spanish, but learning French ruined my pronunciation. I can read Cyrillic, but know almost nothing about Russian.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

English, and I have some very poor Gaeilge (Irish).

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago
[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 2 points 7 months ago

English and some French (Canadian)

Native 'merican and immigrant Mexican

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 2 points 7 months ago

Native English, very basic German from school.

I want to learn another language but can't decide which.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Native: Spanish Fluent: Portuguese, English I can understand almost everything and can sort of speak it very badly: Italian, Catalan I know very basic things and could probably have survival level communication (although I would have to think hard since I haven't used either in years): Russian, German Know how to say random phrases, generally "Excuse me, I don't speak , do you speak English?": Finnish, French, Dutch.

Currently I'm focusing on learning Catalan.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 7 months ago
[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hungarian, French, English at native and C2+

German at B1-B2

And I can somewhat understand written Spanish and Italian

[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's the French. My fiancée can do that too as a francophone

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly, it’s very nice when seeing Spanish comments online and it seems very impressive to people who don’t speak romance languages

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[–] Creegz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I natively speak English. I used to be somewhat competent for my age in French because as a child I was in French classes, I gave those up at some point due to a lack of interest. I've attempted to learn Mandarin, Korean, and German without much commitment. Now I'm learning Spanish which is coming along, but I lack confidence in it.

I suppose I also know Newfinese if that counts.

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