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

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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

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

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.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] may_be@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Heihei!!! Det er så kult!!!

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[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Nomad 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] aloofPenguin@piefed.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

native English
learned French (4 years in high school)

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 😄)

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.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

English, obviously. Native-level (but technically not native-speaker since according to some linguists), started learning since 8 years old with full immersion.

Cantonse and Mandarin. Native languages.

Cantonese used at home.

Understand a bit of Taishanese but not well enought to speak full sentences... (mostly curse words xD). Parents never spoke to me in Taishanese. Parents speak Taishanese with grandparents.

Can read basic Chinese characters (simplified... looking at traditional gives me headaches)... I can type with Pinyin and Jyutping... can't write... (its like you know what a picture looks like but hard to draw that picture by hand... know what I mean?)

I went to school in China till 2nd grade...

I remember teachers had a meter stick and would slap your hand with it as "discipline" and my mom APRROVES OF IT... 💀

They would throw chalk at you if you looked like you weren't paying attention... (sometimes they missed and hit another kid xD)

They played the stupid National Anthem just like the US does.

They make you memorize whole short story and recite it and make you stay late afterschool if and make you recite it... and I remember sometimes they had another kid standing behind the teacher and held the book open so the other kid being quizzed on it can secretly cheat off of it lmfao...

I can probably survive in Mainland China, HK, Taiwan, as a tourist, without needing translation... (I'm gonna sound like a 2nd grader tho lol)

Honestly I rather just forget those languages and become monolingual if it means not have to deal with the cultural baggage...

为什么华人父母这么恶?烦的要死。。。😭

屌那星

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Aussie and English

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I speak native English (Traditional) and am fairly proficient in Swedish, having learnt it for a few years. I still often make grammatical mistakes though

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Native English, very basic German from school.

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

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

Fluent in English; A1 in Spanish, although I do better hearing it than speaking; and then B1 in German, which is what I’m currently learning.

[–] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Native English. Did 5 years of French in highschool. I picked it back up recently and have been focusing more on colloquial French.

[–] Gelik@feddit.dk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Danish, English, bit of German and Spanish

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

English, and trying to learn German! Haven't gotten very far yet though. Did a tiny little bit of Japanese (before picking up German) but haven't gotten very far in that either.

Yet.

-- Frost

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

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.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Native Polish and somewhat communicative English

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

English and some French (Canadian)

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Very very limited farci, almost conversational Spanish, and raised American English.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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