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arudesalad ,

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

MisterNeon ,
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I know enough Spanish to embarrass myself. I know enough of Nahuatl to understand some glyphs. I speak English at an American level, which is greasy.

Txopi ,

Euskaraz hitz egiten dut. (Basque language: I speak Basque)

Spanish is also my mother tongue. As you can see, I also speak English.

linux2647 ,

English is my native tongue.

J’ai appris la français à l’école.

Rŵan dw i’n trio dysgu Cymraeg!

cobysev ,

Fluently? Only English. But I spent 20 years in the US military, nearly 8 of them living full-time in foreign countries. So I did my best to learn at least a little of the languages I was exposed to in my travels.

I was stationed in Japan for 3 years. I learned how to get around and order food in Japanese, plus some limited conversation. I’m actually studying to read the language now. I could read Hirigana and Katakana (the Japanese alphabets) when I lived there. But it takes their students their entire school lives to learn how to read Kanji (the complex Chinese-borrowed symbols that represent entire words), so that one will keep me busy for a while.

When I was stationed in Germany, I learned some basic German, thanks to having friendly neighbors who spoke nearly fluent English. They helped me correct and improve my German language skills. But I was only in the country for a couple years, so I didn’t get very advanced with it.

I took 4 years of French in high school. I thought I was pretty decent at it, but every time I attempted to speak the language in France, the locals immediately switched over to English to converse with me.

Random related tangent: my wife and I took a vacation to Berlin once, and my wife, like me, spent several years studying French in high school. She decided to test her German language skills with the locals, and when she spoke, they immediately switched to French for her. Turns out, she speaks German with a heavy French accent. She was able to finish her conversation in French.

I’m currently studying Norwegian. My 3x great grandfather immigrated to America from Norway, and I still have living descendants of my ancestors over there. My dad and I went to visit them once, and I would like to be able to speak their native language the next time I go back. It used to be a rule that everyone in my family line learned English and Norwegian, but my grandfather died when my dad was only 2, so my dad never learned Norwegian, and thus neither did I.

I learned some extremely limited Korean. I was assigned to South Korea twice, for a year each time, and the military wouldn’t let me live off-base amongst the locals, so I didn’t get much free time to explore the country and learn the language. But I made an effort to learn some phrases so I could be polite in public, order food, and find my way back to the military base if I got lost.

Other languages that I’ve been exposed to and picked up a handful of words/phrases, but never seriously attempted to study: Italian, Arabic, Spanish, and Hawaiian.

kionite231 ,

English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati

Only reading: Japanese, Arabic, Russian

Professorozone ,

Depends on who you ask. I’m American and went to the UK. I was looking to pick up my rental car, you know, so I could drive on the wrong side of the road and found a sign that read, “rental car collection.” I had to ask a local who was doing the collecting, because I don’t speak English. " If I was collecting the car, it’s a pick up. If they were collecting the car it’s a drop off. So…

I also butcher German and Spanish pretty well.

arthur ,

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

yogthos ,
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English, Russian, Czech (used to be fluent, but haven’t used in a while), Mandarin (a bit, still learning)

SeaJ ,

I am a native English speaker y hablo un poco español und ich sprache ein bisschen Deutch.

Zagorath ,
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English is the only language I’m even vaguely proficient in, really.

Le francais est le loin ma deuxieme langue la plus forte. Mais ce n’est toujours pas tres bon, et je dois passer beaucoup de temps pour ecrire dans francais, et generalement rechercher quelques mots ou expressions. Mais ma grammaire est assez bonne, je pense.

I also spent a few years learning Spanish, but almost none of it stuck. And a few years learning Korean while living in Korea. I learnt a few of the necessary words and phrases relating to restaurants and taxis, and some very rudimentary grammar. And being able to read the script is a neat party trick. And one year of actual Vietnamese education + a few more years of peripheral exposure to the language while I lived there. Even less of it stuck than the Spanish though.

Skullgrid ,
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English, spanish , turkish.

I can understand , through mutual intelligibility , azerbaycani, portuguese… then some itallian and some french.

I studied german for 5 years in school and forgot it all.

667 ,
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Mi parolas iomete da Esperanton, y yo hablo tambien un poquito Español, pero medyo fluent ako sa Pilipino, ang wika taga sa Pilipinas. I’m pretty good at English, too.

tiredofsametab ,

Native English, conversational japanese, survival German (I was conversational at one point, but it's mostly gone), a tiny bit of french (same as German), very basic Spanish, and a tiny bit of Hebrew (I wanted to learn something in the semitic family and it seemed less intimidating than Arabic to start with)

jeena ,
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  1. Polish
  2. German
  3. Swedish
  4. English

And I'm learning Korean now but it's so damn difficult it's very frustrating.

VanHalbgott OP ,

Ah, Polish, very neat!

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