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hanabatake ,

French, English, German and a little spoken Japanese. I also studied latin

Edit: in French we say: « Quelles langues parlez-vous ? »

Zagorath ,
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(Or, let’s be honest, more likely « Quelles langues parles-tu ? »)

hanabatake ,

No, it is odd to use the singular imho. Of course it is not the polite form

Eg: reddit.com/…/quelles_langues_étrangères_parlez_vo…

Zagorath , (edited )
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Oh damn. It didn’t even occur to me that we were talking plural here lol

Obviously you’re right.

edit: I honestly hate the fact that English doesn’t have a non-vernacular way to distinguish between singular and plural in the 2nd person. Makes it so much harder to get my head around this sort of situation. “What languages do yous speak?” Would make it so much easier!

folkrav ,

Not particularly odd, just less formal. Much less of an issue with recent generations especially. Younger millennials and later don’t seem to care nearly as much in a lot of contexts. Honestly, outside professional interactions, I see and hear the “tu” a whole lot.

spizzat2 , (edited )

Was Sprachen Sie spricht? (Deutsch/German)

I’m not a native speaker, but I’m pretty sure it’s

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie?

assuming you want to be formal, which feels a little weird to me in the context of an internet forum.

Edit: but to answer your question: fluent English, mehr als ein Bißchen Deutsch, y un poquito Español.

Droggelbecher ,

It is indeed normal to use ‘du’ pretty much everywhere on the internet. Even in French i never see ‘vous’ (which to me feels more common than Sie in German usually).

hanabatake ,

I would like to know how a native german speaker would say it. But I would say like you

VanHalbgott OP ,

Sehr gut, danke! Muy bien!

jbrains , (edited )
  • I have spoken English since birth.
  • Je parle français depuis l’âge de 7 ans, parce que je l’apprenais à l’école.
  • Estudiaba el español en la escuela secundaria.
  • Jag lär mig svenska i fler än tio år.
  • Ich kann etwas Deutsch lesen und verstehen.

And thanks to my Swedish, I can read a surprising amount of Danish and Norwegian.

I would call myself proficient in French, passable in Spanish, barely functional in Swedish, and I can get by in German in a very banal emergency. 😉

VanHalbgott OP ,

Huh…where’d you learn Swedish?

jbrains ,

Mostly self study from a variety of sources. I lived part time in Stockholm for four years, but it was far easier than I’d expected to speak only English, so although my reading and writing improved, my speaking and listening didn’t. Every time I tried, they switched to English on me. I don’t blame them.

Now I’m a bit stuck: I can’t find much to listen to that’s at my level. I’m past the beginner stuff but can’t keep up with Swedish spoken at full speed.

folkrav ,

“à l’école”, but otherwise flawless. You don’t see complex sentences with properly conjugated verbs from a lot of second language speakers, so I have a feeling your French is indeed pretty good.

Blaze ,

!esp for Spanish speakers

Skullgrid ,
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thanks, this is going to help with my exposure.

toomanypancakes ,
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I only speak two languages: English and bad English.

coaxil ,

straylian, and that’s about it.

RyanLiu ,

你會哪些語言？(Traditional Chinese)

That’s about it. I am an interpreter and translator between English and Chinese.

Nemo ,

English natively, but I also speak Spanish every day at work. I can read and write Latin. I can exchange pleasantries in half a dozen other languages.

VanHalbgott OP ,

Bueno!

folkrav ,

Ma langue maternelle est le français. Je suis né et vis au Québec, d’une famille canadienne française assez typique. Mes habiletés d’écriture sont plutôt fortes à en croire mes notes à l’école, mais je les pratique très peu. Je ne le parle pas aussi bien que je l’écris…

Otherwise I’m pretty proficient in English. I’d say I’m more or less bilingual at this point. I cannot seem to enjoy fiction books nearly as much in the language though. I can’t really appreciate the differences in style well enough, I think.

DudeImMacGyver ,
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I’m just here to Beetlejuice

MentalEdge ,
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English, Swedish, and Finnish.

tiny ,

Native English speaker. I learned some French in school and enough Japanese to get through a judo match. I struggle to retain other languages. Everywhere I go everyone speaks English and it’s hard to justify learning a new one even everyone in a 1000 mile radius speaks English.

madjo ,

Nederlands is my native language. And I speak English, some German and I can make a fool of myself in French. And I can order a beer in Spanish and thank you for it.

VanHalbgott OP ,

Very cool.

arudesalad ,

English natively und ich lerne Deustch (aber ich spreche nur ein bisschen)

RangerJosie ,

English. Poorly.

arthur ,

Portuguese, English, enough to understand Spanish, learning French now.

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