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

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[–] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 22 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

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.

[–] illi@piefed.social 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Perhaps asking which languages you don't speak woulf work better in your case, holly shit.

[–] Tuuktuuk@nord.pub 8 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, there are 7000 languages on our planet. Would be a looong list :)

[–] tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 points 2 weeks ago

We all have different standards of what “speaking a language” means, but good on you.

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[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Native Portuguese, “decent “ English

[–] may_be@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 weeks ago

Eu falo português bastante bem, oiii

[–] Zimphire@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Native Dutch, fluent English, fluent German and French, I can carry a conversation in Spanish and Italian, and some baby steps in Japanese.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The Dutch are so dope, I feel every Dutch person knows like at least 5 languages

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

It's easier for them to reach higher education, because they're so tall.

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[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Native english speaker, B1 spanish.

[–] may_be@thelemmy.club 10 points 2 weeks ago

Pero todavía olvido palabras por algunas cosas y cometo errores. Entiendo más de lo que hablo.

[–] may_be@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 weeks ago

¡Hola! Todavía estoy aprendiendo español pero puedo hablar en español bastante bien también

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

For anyone looking for more related content, here is a relevant community:

!languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

and then I told that teaching lady the only crayons I need are the red, white, and blue

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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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[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

english, hungarian, some dutch. if I'm pressed, i also know a little german.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

Bojler eladó!

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] phr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

OnO

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°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥`)

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago
class Answer {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Java");
  }
}

relevant songNANOWAR OF STEEL - HelloWorld.java

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Igpay Atinlay.

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Aquí español 👋 an inglish obvis

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Toki a! Mi kama sona e toki pona. (mi sona toki ike)

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[–] aldhissla@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fluently? Hungarian, English, German, Romanian, and French, in that order.

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[–] phr@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

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!)

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I only speak two languages, English and bad English

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

English. Only. And lucky to be able to at above a fifth grade level.

Guess the shithole country!

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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).

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Spanish native. I got bored with English so I moved on to learning Català 🤣

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

English and Vietnamese

Learning German but maybe thinking of learning some other language instead, maybe Spanish or something not sure

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks 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

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks 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).

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Norwegian, so Swedish and also Danish if it's not too Danish and English. Enough German and Spanish to get by.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] DKKHGGGj@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently

[–] StickyDango@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

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