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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 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.

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Native Portuguese, “decent “ English

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.

Igpay Atinlay.

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.

What?

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

Guess the shithole country!

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.

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.

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.

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

I only speak two languages, English and bad English

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

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

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English and Vietnamese

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

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

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

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).

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

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!)

• German (native)
• English (pretty well I hope; half my work 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, 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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Love 😘

Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.

仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。

English and some French (Canadian)

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