I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.
日本人です、日本語しか話せないのであえてここも日本語で書きます
※普段は機械翻訳をつかってます
ちなみに、一般的な日本人の殆どは日本語以外を話すことはできません、日本の英語教育はあまり意味をなしていません
From USA. Fluent in English and Russian (self-taught and lived in St Petersburg and Moscow for a number of years).
From Croatia, I’m multilingual!
English
Croatian
Serbian
Bosnian
Serbo-croatian
Montenegrin
Probably missing some.
Slovenian? Or don’t I dare ask that?
Slovenian is different, it is similar and could understand something but don’t know it.
India - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and English
Brazil. Fluent in Portuguese and English, though I understand a tiny little bit of Dutch. I can understand Spanish sometimes because of similarities between it and Portuguese.
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.
United States and I speak English and a little Spanish but I wish I knew more Spanish.
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.
Denmark. I understand Swedish, Norwegian and German. I speak Danish, English and Dutch.
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
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.
American, I speak English, Thai, and Korean.
I wish I knew how to write Korean nicely. Is definitely easier to speak for me than to write it lol.
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.Lithuanian.
I speak Lithuanian, English, some Swedish and traces of Russian.
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!
