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Native Spanish, very good Catalan, good English and some (not enough to speak them) Portuguese, Italian and French.
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bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 month ago
Nebulous_Keito@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Bangla mainly and sometimes English but pretty less in daily life (I do understand more languages but I just don’t speak them)
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
English, and I have some very poor Gaeilge (Irish).
ManixT@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Love 😘
espentan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Norwegian, Swedish, German, English, some French and maybe enough Spanish to survive a week or two.
may_be@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
En annen norsktalende person!!! Heihei!!
DKKHGGGj@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Finnish, English and technically some Swedish. Technically because I refuse to talk it
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Why?
DKKHGGGj@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Is a mandatory subject in school here. They can make me sit in class but not use it type of situation
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 month ago
- 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 😄)
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
English and Vietnamese
Learning German but maybe thinking of learning some other language instead, maybe Spanish or something not sure
rosco385@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
I’m a native English speaker, 但是我可以說一點中文。
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
懂多少？
我的中文知识达到二年级水平，在国内读过书。然后就出国了。
只会打拼音，不懂怎么用手写。
(try without google translate for practice)
rosco385@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
我也不會寫則。我快三十歲的時候開始學。我愛人中國人。
StickyDango@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
It’s funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language (maybe from various distinct formation languages competiting in order to shape modern english)
I promised my wife I’d learn her native language alongside our future children, but that’s a future me problem.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow! You can make it easier by finding a fun way to do it; e.g start with duolingo for basics then play a game/watch a movie you know well in that language.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language
Maybe, but I think it’s mostly just that it’s my native language and I was a voracious reader in my childhood so I got really good at it. I do appreciate the Germanic composite nature, but I didn’t, like, actively choose English.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow!
Eh, like I said, that’s a future me problem. I think the “fun” way is going to be learning along with my kids. Start with the basics, consume simple media, immersion, all that. I’m not too worried about it, if I need to supplement with other methods I’ll supplement. But I think the time it takes the kids to become fluent will be long and gradual enough to work for me.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 month ago
Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
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.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently
e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 1 month ago
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. but i got comfortable and stopped learning more :/
Creegz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I primarily 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.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Flemisch.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Native 'merican and immigrant Mexican
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 <language>, do you speak English?”: Finnish, French, Dutch.
Currently I’m focusing on learning Catalan.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I want to say spanish, german and english, but the honest answer is none
PM_me_your_doggo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
English, Russian, Serbo-Chroatian, a bit of Ukrainian. Very little of Deutsch.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m a native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker and I’ll be brutally honest, you need a huge motivation, or else you will struggle to be fluent.
Not just because you like the aesthetics, or like the idea of being bilingual…
What are you gonna even use the language for.
For example, you might wanna learn Japanese for better experience enjoying Anime…
My parents came to the US as adults.
My dad has been in the US for… 16 years… still a non citizen and never really learned English
Meanwhile, mom needs it to do bussiness… investments… and stuff… so she has to learn it… She knows enough to become a citizen…
The biggest thing is IMMERSION. Even then, dad never learner it…
My parents barely understand me lol. Since I only know 2nd grade level of Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin share similar vocaublary)… despite being a native speaker.
A westerner is gonna struggle a lot with the tones…
I was “luckly” enough to be just at the perfect time of 8 years old so I know enough basics of Chinese before emigraring… so my brain is in between two worlds.
If I was born in the US, idk if I could manage to learn it.
IMO Mandarin is gonna be tough since Chinese shows are sooo boring… soo cliche… predictable story is gonna kill the will to learn… (unless you love bad tv drama lol)
Ask your self: What are you gonna use Mandarin for? (Also: do you also wanna learn the writing too? Since its logographics, much harder.) Just as a trophy? Or actually gonna regularly have a use for it?
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Well, to answer your primary question — many of the people on the team I work with speak… it’s either Cantonese or Mandarin, I think they told me Mandarin but I’m not entirely sure. It isn’t something that would necessarily help me on a professional level, but it would help me on a personal level with many of them.
That’s genuinely my motivation, I don’t really care about ‘seeming’ bilingual — this is mostly to bring me closer to people who have helped me at work.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Hungarian, French, English at native and C2+
German at B1-B2
And I can somewhat understand written Spanish and Italian
loonsun@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s the French. My fiancée can do that too as a francophone
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Exactly, it’s very nice when seeing Spanish comments online and seems very impressive to people who don’t speak Latin languages
Melobol@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Hungarian, English and passively German.
Can say basic phrases in Spanish, in Italian and in Japanese.SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I can swear fluently in Italian, French and Spanish.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Bojler eladó!
Melobol@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Mi a helyzet a szesz kazánnal?
Nomad@infosec.pub 1 month ago
German natively, English fluently, basic French, a few words Japanese.
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
English, obviously.
Cantonse and Mandarin.
Understand a bit of Taishanese but not well enought to speak full sentences… (mostly curse words xD). Parents never spoke to me in Taishanese.
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。。。😭
屌那星
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What?