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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.

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illi@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Perhaps asking which languages you don’t speak woulf work better in your case, holly shit.

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- Tuuktuuk@nord.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Haha, there are 7000 languages on our planet. Would be a looong list :)
  
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tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
We all have different standards of what “speaking a language” means, but good on you.

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Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Diction needed.

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- Tuuktuuk@nord.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  One of the languages I am not sufficiently fluent in, yet, is that of Australia and USA. What does “Diction needed” mean in this context?
  
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  - TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I could be wrong but I think it’s a play on “citation needed” (i.e., they don’t believe you)
    
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  - Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Diction is speech (like dire in French), and it was a bit of wordplay on the common expression ‘citation needed’ like the other commenter said :) Basically joking that a claim to speak a language should be backed up by saying something in that language to be believed.
    
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    Tuuktuuk@nord.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No kurienes tev zināt, ka neesmu vinkarši izmantojis tulkojuma aparātes? :)
    
    Eble vi devus usi telefonon en paroli kun mi. Mi ne scias.
    
    Pero, quien quiere, puede me llamar por exemple con Matrix. У початку просто думав, що й так ніхто мене вірятіме, якщо віряті не хоче. Und wer meenen Wörtern glohben will, tut es ja eh. So is halt det Leben.
    
    Aber jut, nu är nånting skrivits :)
    
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