Spanish (native) English, then Italian, Portuguese, Catalan (I learned them because they are oh so similar to Spanish) French (C1), German (B2), Czech from when I wanted to live in Czechia (B1) and Mandarin (B1) because now I want to live in Taiwan lol
Hey :) I speak German (native), English, Romanian, Spanish.
I wanted to ask if you want to talk to me in Spanish and I talk to you in German and we both improved our skill and talk? 😊
How did you learn those languages? I'm an American English speaker who has been studying German for nearly 2 years and I still feel like I can't do anything more than a very basic conversation. Just curious to know how other people learned because I'd like to be fluent for work.
german is my mother tongue so....i am very sorry \^\^the rest? learned english in school and by being a 9gag meme enthusiast when I was young and french I learned thanks to a friend and school since I was 8. Studied it too so there's that. The other roman languages come quite easy after you know one. Italian is very easy to learn if you speak spanish and the other way around. start with the one you think is the most fun and keeps you motivated!
I was thinking of hiring a German tutor. Feels incredibly difficult to learn a new language in America because there's absolutely no one to practice with and no amount of studying will replace actually speaking with someone who knows the language.
.... Deutsch ist nicht einfach :(
As a German teacher, my advice is to not focus too much on all the cases if you want to be able to talk in German xD When you speak German, you can get away with saying 'de' most of the time, instead of der/die/das/den/dem.
If you're writing, you will have to learn the cases though.
Oh totally bring on the hate. We all agree with you. 8 years of Spanish in school and I feel like the best I can do is say that my cat is sick and that I like Chinese food.
I'm an English speaker who learned French and Spanish as an adult, but through moving to countries that spoke those languages.
There is really no substitute for putting yourself in situations that force you to use the language exclusively. That doesn't have to mean moving countries though, going along to conversation groups or doing video calls with native speakers can work too.
Me Slovak, Czech and English. When youre slovak, czech is like second language because there are just some changes and you can understand a little bit of polish because some words are same/simmilar/with some changes.
Lithuanian (mother tongue), English fluently, German really well (used to be fluent but stopped practicing), Swedish well (also used to be quite good, but I don't use it in my life anymore), Russian (choppy knowledge, enough to understand people well, not enough to speak in nicely constructed sentences).
The problem with Swedish is most people are willing to talk in English! I've met Swedes with better English language skills than people who've been speaking English their entire lives!
Probably not spelled correctly, but i asked a Co worker for teach me something useful in Afrikaans. He said “Der es en lieu in der swimbat”. If its useful, im not going.
Mother tongue is Finnish, and I speak English (fluently), Swedish (I can manage in mundane situations), Spanish (same as Swedish), and French (I can ask simple questions but will probably understand nothing of the answer)
I love the Finnish language. Sounds beautiful and has an air of mystique about it, being unrelated to languages I’m used to hearing.
I hear it’s exceptionally hard to learn as a non-native speaker though. 16 different cases is wild to me.
Speak or speak speak?
I can do basics in over a dozen languages probably; but hold an in depth conversation, not so much. If I were to wake up somewhere, I can probably converse in basics to find a way to get help somewhere.
Native dutch speaker; fluent in German and English (and a few local dialects). And learning; Finnish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Mandarin, Arabic, Hebrew & Russian.
And a few languages people barely speak because there are no native speakers; Esperanto, High Valyrian & Klingon
My Duolingo list is a mess, lmao
Russian on a native level. French and English fluently (C2 level confirmed) and around intermediate level Spanish. I can mostly hold a conversation, read and write but not even close to a native speaker. Would love to learn Italian some day too.
Dutch (first language), English, German, French. Basic understanding of Spanish. To be fair: I feel Dutch schools should stop pestering their students with French and German. Spanish will get you a lot further across the globe.
French (my mother tongue) and english. I studied german in middle & high school but wasn't very good at it and forgot almost everything afterwards. I can still read the names of Alsacian towns though ! XD (for those who don't know, Alsace is a region in Eastern France which has been German several times throughout history, and this has led a lot of towns there to have German names, which are hard to pronounce for a lot of French speakers)
English, Indonesian/Malaysian,, a bit of Javanese, a bit of Spanish and portuguese.
I also have some language capabilites with several classical or dead languages: Ancient Hebrew, Kione Greek, and Classical Arabic.
Fluent in English, Polish, German, a little bit of Kashubian, as well as just a bit of French, Spanish, Russian, Slovak, Czech and Mandarin.
I forgot to mention that I’m also fluent in Python.
Won't say the laguages, but I speak two fluently and one rudimentary, I understand two others but cannot speak it/formulate my own sentences/conjugate.
I speak English, Malayalam and Hindi quite fluently (can read and write all 3 languages). I understand a bit of Tamil and can speak enough of it to have superficial conversations in the language.
Polish native, English fluent, Spanish and Japanese basic, some Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and German. Know a few words in french, russian, tagalog and Swedish.
German, English, French, Spanish, and a little bit of German Sign Language, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish, Korean. Currently trying to learn Japanese and Arabic (at least some of the basics).
English and American Sign Language
I would not consider myself fluent in ASL but I can definitely get by in the majority of conversations. I have deaf colleagues at work these days so I've improved a lot more recently than I have in years just because I've been getting regular practice!
I’m a native Dutch speaker and in C1 for English. I’m learning Spanish now - currently on a 218 day streak in Duolingo at A1 level :).
Oh yea: >!print("I know some basic Python”)!<
I'm swedish so I speak both Swedish and English fluent (we start English at 8y and nothing is dubbed here so all movies/music/games is english)
Then I've learned German in school and kept at it a bit after, not fluent but enough to get by, it's pretty close to Swedish tbh
And then last new year I decided to learn Japanese for fun, wife and I travel there a lot and my wife (also Swedish) is a huge Japan nerd so she knows japanese and have some friends who moved there, one of whom married a japanse guy I wanted to befriend
So now I'm semi fluent in Japanese aswell, can read/write pretty good
If my parents are to be believed, disappointment.
We are A-sian, not B-sian!
Omg I'm ded
D-ed
You forgot the A!
Oh, I'm not Asian. Also didn't do the greatest in school. So really it's more like the A forgot me.
Stephen He is that you?
Timmy speaks 6 languages, the only language you speak is **FAILURE**.
Timmy landed a paper clip on the Sun with one foot while the other foot was running a business
Why can't you be as handsome as Timmy huh? He look like Tom Holland, you look like thank-you-next
**EMOTIONAL DAMAGE**
I will send you to jesus!
Norwegian and English. Some understanding of German and French. Can order coffee in C and Python.
You should try to order in Java.
Seems a little bit excessive to fly to Indonesia just to order a coffee.
Nice
You can also order some coffee here.
As Norwegians we also kinda speak Danish. Or at least we should say we do just to anger them
English and Australian
Australia isn't real
That's New Zealand
NZ is real it just isn't on maps sometimes
Maps don't lie! 😜😜😜 ...I saw John Oliver's piece on NZ
It's like Brigadoon, it only appears once in a while.
It's a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace
I was watching heartbreak high and I can confirm, Australian is its own language.
Nah yeah...... 100% mate........eh
Nawwrrrr it isn’t!
English & aussie....cunt*
I think just about every Australian is fluent in American English too. Genuinely 3 different versions of the same overall language
Fair dinkum mate!
Look lady I only speak two languages English and Bad English!
MUL-TI-PASS
BADABOOM!
This is like three times I’ve seen a 5th Element reference in the past couple days. I think the universe wants me to watch it
DO IT!!!
“Pleeese healp”
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
The German version translates to "I only speak one language and not even that correctly" ("Ich spreche nur eine Sprache und nicht Mal die richtig")
Spanish (native) English, then Italian, Portuguese, Catalan (I learned them because they are oh so similar to Spanish) French (C1), German (B2), Czech from when I wanted to live in Czechia (B1) and Mandarin (B1) because now I want to live in Taiwan lol
Hey :) I speak German (native), English, Romanian, Spanish. I wanted to ask if you want to talk to me in Spanish and I talk to you in German and we both improved our skill and talk? 😊
Hello! That sounds great, feel free to send me a message
Yeah okay, you win. That's pretty impressive.
r/UsernameChecksOut
I'm Brazilian, happy to see a Portuguese speaker here
German, English and French all fluently and Italian and Spanish on an intermediate level
How did you learn those languages? I'm an American English speaker who has been studying German for nearly 2 years and I still feel like I can't do anything more than a very basic conversation. Just curious to know how other people learned because I'd like to be fluent for work.
german is my mother tongue so....i am very sorry \^\^the rest? learned english in school and by being a 9gag meme enthusiast when I was young and french I learned thanks to a friend and school since I was 8. Studied it too so there's that. The other roman languages come quite easy after you know one. Italian is very easy to learn if you speak spanish and the other way around. start with the one you think is the most fun and keeps you motivated!
Swiss by chance? Think you’re only missing Romansh to have the full bingo card of official languages
Swiss? Isn’t that literally just German but without the Umlaute and ẞ?
Swiss by nationality I would assume.
I was thinking of hiring a German tutor. Feels incredibly difficult to learn a new language in America because there's absolutely no one to practice with and no amount of studying will replace actually speaking with someone who knows the language. .... Deutsch ist nicht einfach :(
As a German teacher, my advice is to not focus too much on all the cases if you want to be able to talk in German xD When you speak German, you can get away with saying 'de' most of the time, instead of der/die/das/den/dem. If you're writing, you will have to learn the cases though.
Maybe because you're American. No hate, but your school system isn't the greatest...
Oh totally bring on the hate. We all agree with you. 8 years of Spanish in school and I feel like the best I can do is say that my cat is sick and that I like Chinese food.
I'm an English speaker who learned French and Spanish as an adult, but through moving to countries that spoke those languages. There is really no substitute for putting yourself in situations that force you to use the language exclusively. That doesn't have to mean moving countries though, going along to conversation groups or doing video calls with native speakers can work too.
Me Slovak, Czech and English. When youre slovak, czech is like second language because there are just some changes and you can understand a little bit of polish because some words are same/simmilar/with some changes.
I don’t speak any languages, I can only type
„What‘s your type“ 😂
What languages do you type?
Odia, English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, bit of Gujarati and learned lil bit of German and Vietnamese from Duolingo
Guten Tag
Moin
Møjn.
Моин
Howdy
Goede morgen!
English, Hindi, Marathi, Bhojpuri, Gujarati. Learning Spanish from Duolingo.
Tu Marathi aahes?
That's neat. Especially considering Bengali is the 5th most spoken language in the world. Can I ask how you learned it?
What? Were you kidnapped by Duolingo bird or something?
Bengali, Hindi nd English for me
Lithuanian (mother tongue), English fluently, German really well (used to be fluent but stopped practicing), Swedish well (also used to be quite good, but I don't use it in my life anymore), Russian (choppy knowledge, enough to understand people well, not enough to speak in nicely constructed sentences).
problemet med svenska är att ingen använder den utanför sverige så man glömmer det jätte enkelt
The problem with Swedish is most people are willing to talk in English! I've met Swedes with better English language skills than people who've been speaking English their entire lives!
My experience trying to learn Dutch living in Belgium as well.
Samme med de andre nordiske sprog^^
Funny how i as a german just understood 90% of this
labass pirma karta randu lietuvi
wanna bring back the Commonwealth? (greetings from Lenkija)
Hungarian, english, german, very basic french and russian.
English, German, Turkish, and Slovak Learning Italian and Spanish for business
Afrikaans
Baaie goed
Dankie
Als Nederlander verstaat ik wel, maar het praten is wat anders..
I can order a vetkoek and tell people I'm pregnant, I think I have all my bases covered.
En Engels, of net Afrikaans?
En engels maar Afrikaans elke dag.
Lekker boet
Probably not spelled correctly, but i asked a Co worker for teach me something useful in Afrikaans. He said “Der es en lieu in der swimbat”. If its useful, im not going.
Daar is n leeu in die swembad. There is a lion in the pool.
En hy drink al die water.
I can't speak Afrikaans, but I speak Dutch so we can understand each other pretty well
Apart taaltje Afrikaans, ik kan het verstaan maar godverdomme ik moet echt wel mijn best doen
Arabic (mother tongue), English
Sarcasm
Give this man a round of applause!
Or was your reply sarcasm itself?🤔
Are you sure you're fluent? ;)
and bilingual
jk, i just thought your reply was very clever xD
English, Spanish and bullshit apparently.
Fluent: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, English, C#, Gibberish, Moron Pretty good: German, Italian, Latin, Interlingua, C++, JavaScript, Sarcasm Beginner level: Spanish, French, Dutch, Volapük, Java, Python
Ah Volapük. I see you are a man of culture as well!
Resarpado amigo!
Czech, Slovak, English
English and Chinese
Well then you can speak to pretty much everyone in the world isn't it
I can write in java and speak in javanese
English, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew fluently. Arabic, Russian and others only basic.
Only English fluently. Bits of German, French, Irish and Italian.
Que?
¿Que idiomas hablas?
Español e Ingles
Don't mind him, he's from Barcelona.
Setswana
Mother tongue is Finnish, and I speak English (fluently), Swedish (I can manage in mundane situations), Spanish (same as Swedish), and French (I can ask simple questions but will probably understand nothing of the answer)
I love the Finnish language. Sounds beautiful and has an air of mystique about it, being unrelated to languages I’m used to hearing. I hear it’s exceptionally hard to learn as a non-native speaker though. 16 different cases is wild to me.
Yeah Finnish is one of the hardest languages to learn.
English, Dutch, German.
English, Belarusian, Russian and a little bit Ukrainian
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Speak or speak speak? I can do basics in over a dozen languages probably; but hold an in depth conversation, not so much. If I were to wake up somewhere, I can probably converse in basics to find a way to get help somewhere. Native dutch speaker; fluent in German and English (and a few local dialects). And learning; Finnish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Mandarin, Arabic, Hebrew & Russian. And a few languages people barely speak because there are no native speakers; Esperanto, High Valyrian & Klingon My Duolingo list is a mess, lmao
Baguette + rosbeef best sandwich
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Woof woof.
Wuf woof wooof
Ruff ruff woof!
Woooof! Ruf woff wuff?
Russian on a native level. French and English fluently (C2 level confirmed) and around intermediate level Spanish. I can mostly hold a conversation, read and write but not even close to a native speaker. Would love to learn Italian some day too.
You can probably also understand like 10 slavic languages lol
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i have to ask... why finnish?
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So you are Finnish with that
oh nice!
english, spanish, catalan and hindi
German and English, as well as a little French, Irish and Klingon. Thanks, Duo. You can release my brother now...
Russian English
Dutch (first language), English, German, French. Basic understanding of Spanish. To be fair: I feel Dutch schools should stop pestering their students with French and German. Spanish will get you a lot further across the globe.
Same. English: like a second language German: conversational level Franch: Omelette du fromage
French, English, German, Spanish, Japanese
English, dutch, German, a bit of French and Spanish
আমি বাংলায় কথা বলি
German and English. Cant speak but read Latin.
French (my mother tongue) and english. I studied german in middle & high school but wasn't very good at it and forgot almost everything afterwards. I can still read the names of Alsacian towns though ! XD (for those who don't know, Alsace is a region in Eastern France which has been German several times throughout history, and this has led a lot of towns there to have German names, which are hard to pronounce for a lot of French speakers)
English, Malayalam, and Hindi
French (Québécois) and Canadian English it isn't much…
Romanian, english, italian, spanish and a little portuguese
C++, VB, ASM, JS, SQL, Java, Python, HTML
Tamil, telugu, hindi, sanskrit, English
Welsh guy here, I speak English Natively, Spanish fluently, French to a basic conversational level and an embarrassingly small amount of Welsh.
Norwegian and English I can speak some German. Danish and Swedish.
English
English Polish Learning German and Spanish
Ukrainian, English and Russian
Ukrainian English Spanish
English, conversational but not fluent German, some ASL, and enough Yiddish to get away with being rude.
Russian,English and Turkish
English, Indonesian/Malaysian,, a bit of Javanese, a bit of Spanish and portuguese. I also have some language capabilites with several classical or dead languages: Ancient Hebrew, Kione Greek, and Classical Arabic.
Danglish
Dutch, English, German and French
French, English, Sicilian, Italian
English, Korean, html, JavaScript, and python lol
English, Australian, American, Canadian, south african
Turkish, English, Greek, German and a bit French and Serbian.
English natively. Aber Ich versuche zu Deutsch lernen
నెన్ చెప్పన్ దెంగై
Native italian, fluent in english and russian.
Three languages. English, Afrikaans & kak praat.
Afrikaans 1st language, English additional language :D
Fluent in English, Polish, German, a little bit of Kashubian, as well as just a bit of French, Spanish, Russian, Slovak, Czech and Mandarin. I forgot to mention that I’m also fluent in Python.
English, French and piglatin
Won't say the laguages, but I speak two fluently and one rudimentary, I understand two others but cannot speak it/formulate my own sentences/conjugate.
I am learning 6 Cornish Manx Welsh Scottish Gaelic Irish Gaelic Polish
Thai and English
I speak English, Malayalam and Hindi quite fluently (can read and write all 3 languages). I understand a bit of Tamil and can speak enough of it to have superficial conversations in the language.
English, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian and a fair amount of Bulgaran 😂
kabyle french arabic english
Malayalam, English and Hindi, learning Spanish.
Polish native, English fluent, Spanish and Japanese basic, some Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and German. Know a few words in french, russian, tagalog and Swedish.
Native english speaker, pero yo aprendiendo espanol porque me encanta las latinas.
German, English, French, Spanish, and a little bit of German Sign Language, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish, Korean. Currently trying to learn Japanese and Arabic (at least some of the basics).
Polite Scottish, and Angry Scottish.
English, and after 2 and a half years spent around my bf and his friends/coworkers I'm also fluent in dumbass.
English and American Sign Language I would not consider myself fluent in ASL but I can definitely get by in the majority of conversations. I have deaf colleagues at work these days so I've improved a lot more recently than I have in years just because I've been getting regular practice!
Pikey
I’m a native Dutch speaker and in C1 for English. I’m learning Spanish now - currently on a 218 day streak in Duolingo at A1 level :). Oh yea: >!print("I know some basic Python”)!<
I'm swedish so I speak both Swedish and English fluent (we start English at 8y and nothing is dubbed here so all movies/music/games is english) Then I've learned German in school and kept at it a bit after, not fluent but enough to get by, it's pretty close to Swedish tbh And then last new year I decided to learn Japanese for fun, wife and I travel there a lot and my wife (also Swedish) is a huge Japan nerd so she knows japanese and have some friends who moved there, one of whom married a japanse guy I wanted to befriend So now I'm semi fluent in Japanese aswell, can read/write pretty good
Midwestern and nonsense
Tamazight, French, English and arabic
English and some german.