Hungarian, English and passively German.
Can say basic phrases in Spanish, in Italian and in Japanese.
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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.
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.
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I only speak two languages, English and bad English
Super green, Korben my man.
Igpay Atinlay.
English. Only. And lucky to be able to at above a fifth grade level.
Guess the shithole country!
Texas?
Idk somewhere in africa?
German natively, English fluently, basic French, a few words Japanese.
Hungarian, French, English at native and C2+
German at B1-B2
And I can somewhat understand written Spanish and Italian
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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.
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.
It's funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language (maybe from various distinct formation languages competiting in order to shape modern english)
I promised my wife I’d learn her native language alongside our future children, but that’s a future me problem.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow! You can make it ~~easier~~ bettee for yourself by finding a fun way to do it; e.g start with duolingo for basics then play a game/watch a movie you know well in that language.
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.
English (Native), French (B1-B2 depending on the day), and just started trying to learn Ukrainian
仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。
Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.
Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently
Very very limited farci, almost conversational Spanish, and raised American English.
Native Polish and somewhat communicative English
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 :/
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!)
Native English, poor Italian, barely functional Spanish. I can read Italian and Spanish with a bit of effort and understand both pretty well when spoken, but my speaking is severely lacking in both.
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
What?
English and some French (Canadian)
English, some Spanish.
I'm pretty shy so I don't really do small talk with anyone Spanish even though I live here. I can get by obviously but it's nowhere near conversational.
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.
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.
Aussie and English
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
native English
learned French (4 years in high school)
English and passable Spanish