What language do you guys speak?

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.

Native Portuguese, “decent “ English

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

Native english speaker, B1 spanish.

Just one, American.

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

Igpay Atinlay.

Aquí español 👋 an inglish obvis

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.

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

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

Guess the shithole country!

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).

仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。

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

I only speak two languages, English and bad English

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!)

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.

Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently

Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.

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

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

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

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).

A bit of English and some Japanese...

I only speak english and bad english

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

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.

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.

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.

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

English and Vietnamese

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

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 :/

What?

• 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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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。。。😭

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

• 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 I have some very poor Gaeilge (Irish).

native English
learned French (4 years in high school)

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.

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

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

Love 😘

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

Aussie and English

Native 'merican and immigrant Mexican

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

Native English, very basic German from school.

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

Since Lemmy apparently has a ton of people who are bilingual — how do I as a 31 year old man that knows enough Spanish to say 'Thank you, where is the bathroom?' and frequently watches anime in subtitles gain another language? I'm open to all suggestions, except bad ones. Specifically I am interested in learning Mandarin because I hate myself.

Native Polish and somewhat communicative English

Hungarian, French, English at native and C2+

German at B1-B2

And I can somewhat understand written Spanish and Italian

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

I want to say spanish, german and english, but the honest answer is none

So i'm fluent in English and a specific proto-sign language that as far as i know only a few hundred people sign. I can order food and ask where the toilet is in about 30-50 languages, depending on the day. My Spanish and German are rusty: i have production issues but my receptive is competent. All my other romance languages (except basque and romanian, i haven't looked at those at all) are decent enough to travel and make an ass of myself. My germanic and nordic languages are worse than my romance ones. Do not ask me anything in Afrikaans I will assume you are drunk.

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.

Danish, English, bit of German and Spanish

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.

English, Russian, Serbo-Chroatian, a bit of Ukrainian. Very little of Deutsch.

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

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.

Flemisch.

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.

English and some French (Canadian)

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

English and passable Spanish

American English with a specialty in the dialect of American Regulatory Legalese.

Spanish, Arabic, and Irish I used to be able to read and write, but was always terrible at understanding any of them spoken.

I learned bits of German by proxy from having friends stationed at Heidelberg.

English (Native), French (B1-B2 depending on the day), and just started trying to learn Ukrainian

English, bad english and worse Finnish.

Kidding, after 20 years in Finland my Finnish is just bad.

German is my first language, and also my third. When I started school I had to learn English; over the years I didn’t speak much German and I have forgotten a lot. Now I have started to re-learn German again.

Also bits of French, Spanish, Esperanto, Latin, that I picked up or started learning over the years.

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.

english and korean. i'd like to learn more but i'm too lazy tbh

I know 2 languages I'm 100% confident. I know another one where I'm 75% confident that I'll understand and can reply in an understandable way. I know another one 25% I can get by for daily basic things. And I know one where I only know the swear words.

fart and cum mostly