I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.
I’m from The Netherlands and I speak Dutch, English, a bit of German and no French at all even though I had French in school for 13 years.
But The Netherlands has 2 official national languages, Dutch and Friesian, although English officially isn’t a foreign language anymore due to the quality and quantity of English speakers and there are discussions to make English the third national language.
I wish I knew more languages, but sadly I’m really bad at learning any. Some people learn languages so fast, I’m better at math and such. I wish I knew Russian, Chinese and Spanish because I’d love to travel to old USSR republics, China and other Asian countries and South America. Knowing the most spoken languages in the world would be amazing I imagine. And I wish I knew Norwegian because I love the language and the country so much. Plus, you can communicate in Denmark and Sweden too. But luckily now we have Google translate so I could communicate even though I don’t have shared languages with where I want to go.
although English officially isn’t a foreign language anymore due to the quality and quantity of English speakers and there are discussions to make English the third national language.
Do you have a source for this? I’m Dutch native too, and have never heard of this.
The majority of Dutch people speak English at a decent level, but there are no non-immigrant native English speakers.
UK, trying not to be a typical one-language Anglo by learning German. I’m thankful there seems to be a large German community on Lemmy!
Norwegian.
I’d say fluent in Norwegian, English and German. German because I lived there for a year and the missus is German.
I can make myself understood in Spanish.
Swedish and Danish come for free as they are so close to Norwegian. I don’t need to speak them as we understand eachother mostly.Hungarian, so beyond that that i speak english (duh) swedish, though i mostly read books on it, not a lot of swedes around, and i am trying to pick up some chinese now
There’s a Hungarian hardcore band I like called Aws. It’s a really neat language. I don’t understand a word of it sadly. Maybe someday.
Ah, nice. Have not heard of them, funnily enough. But i am all for hardcore so there is that :D how did you learn about them?
They were on Eurovision representing Hungary. I listen to alot of non-English music. This is the song if you’re interested. I think their singer passed away unfortunately.
Thanks, I’ll check it out. I don’t really follow music recently all that much so i guess it explains it
Mexican here:
Spanish & English - Fluent
Japanese - Intermediate-advanced
French - Still learning but it’s so similar to Spanish it feels like cheating 😅
French was more confusing than Spanish was to me. I’m trying to learn Spanish actually. It’s a beautiful language.
Ireland. First language English, second Irish (but only in the education system), learning Russian
From the Netherlands. I speak English and Dutch pretty much on the same level. I can work my way around German if I’ve been in a German speaking country for a couple of days. I can speak French if I really need to and I’m currently learning Portuguese. Understanding Portuguese has made me also understand Italian and Spanish a bit better.
Dutch too. Fluent in English, my French is quite good and I can manage German (though my grammar is horrible).
I did learn Latin so I understand Italian and Spanish if it’s written and not too complex.
American, English only but I need to learn Burmese as that’s where my daughter-in-law is from. Can’t have hypothetical grand kids speaking a language I don’t know.
Just saying you’ll probably have a better time asking this in a casual conversation community. To answer the question though I’m Egyptian and I speak Arabic, English, Japanese and a bit of Chinese.
US. English is the only language I know and I’m pretty fuckin bad at it lol.
Swedish: Native English: Fluent to the point where it might as well be native Spanish: Alright, probably upper B2
Hi! I’m French, living in Germany, fluent in French, German, and English, conversational Japanese
From Mexico Magico, and I speak Spanish, English, enough French and enough Portuguese brasileiro to get by. And I am currently working on improving my Korean because I live in a city that has a huge community.
Also US
English of course
I took a few years of French in middle and high school, not much of it stuck. A couple basic words and phrases, and if they speak slowly and clearly I can usually get the gist of what someone is saying and fake my way through some reading.
The story of my French education is a mess, full of long term substitutes, substitute-substitutes, a sad lonely man whose spirit was absolutely broken by the kids who had him first semester before I had him and got fired a couple weeks before the end of the school year, and a lady who was absolutely baffled by the fact that her French 3 class barely spoke any French because the first 2 years of our French education was a total waste.
A handful of Spanish words and phrases from middle school “exploratory” Spanish class for a couple months and working in a warehouse for a few years where I was one of only a handful of native English speakers, but nowhere close to conversational.
And I’ve been teaching myself Esperanto, which has been going rather well. It’s hard to say how conversational I am because there’s not a whole lot of esperantists running around to chat with, but I’m reading at probably about a 2nd grade level, which is something I suppose.
Lithuanian.
I speak Lithuanian, English, some Swedish and traces of Russian.
