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• rosco385@lemmy.wtf ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m a native English speaker, 但是我可以說一點中文。

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• Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  German natively, English fluently, basic French, a few words Japanese.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Igpay Atinlay.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Native Norwegian, fluent English, proficient Danish and Swedish, intermediate German, basic mandarin.

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  • may_be@thelemmy.club ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Heyyyyy, en nordmenn her!!! Hvordan går det?

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    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Meh, spysjuke

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What?

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Very very limited farci, almost conversational Spanish, and raised American English.

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Native Polish and somewhat communicative English

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• e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 :/

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  English and Vietnamese

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

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• Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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• FRYD@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Native English, poor Italian, barely functional Spanish. I can read Italian and Spanish with a bit of effort and understand both pretty well when spoken, but my speaking is severely lacking in both.

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• NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  English and some French (Canadian)

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• SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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• OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Aussie and English

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Native Finnish, some swedish(this 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

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• aloofPenguin@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  native English learned French (4 years in high school)

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• phr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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!)

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I speak native English (Traditional) and am fairly proficient in Swedish, having learnt it for a few years. I still often make grammatical mistakes though

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• forestbeasts@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  English, and trying to learn German! Haven’t gotten very far yet though. Did a tiny little bit of Japanese (before picking up German) but haven’t gotten very far in that either.

  Yet.

  – Frost

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• Gelik@feddit.dk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Danish, English, bit of German and Spanish

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• Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Native English. Did 5 years of French in highschool. I picked it back up recently and have been focusing more on colloquial French.

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• hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fluent in English; A1 in Spanish, although I do better hearing it than speaking; and then B1 in German, which is what I’m currently learning.

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• BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Native English, very basic German from school.

  I want to learn another language but can’t decide which.

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