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Other languages: English (obviously), French (non fluent), Dutch (still really really bad at it, not well enough to communicate with it yet)

Spanish (native), English (fluent).

Edit: Me emociona leer que tantas personas están aprendiendo español 🫶...

English and French fluently. English is my mother tongue. French I learned in an immersion program in primary school. I didn't study french at all in highschool or postsecondary, and always hated it during primary because my parents put me in immersion to "challenge" me. I started working for the Canadian federal government after uni, and they have pretty robust training programs for getting to full french fluency from any starting skill level. Plus, there's a bit of a glass ceiling for monolingual public servants in the federal government.

Recently started dating a Chinese girl and so I'm trying to teach myself a bit of Chinese. It's not as hard as I expected it to be, but it is very hard. In many ways it's the opposite experience of learning French relative to English. Learning French, the vocabulary is pretty easy and the grammar is very hard. Learning Chinese, the grammar is dead easy but the vocabulary is really hard.

English is my native language. I have a smattering of Malay from early childhood (my mother's first language), and have limited proficiency in ASL, German, Spanish, Italian, Irish, French, and Finnish (my proudest language moment was purchasing an apple from an old farmer in Helsinki who spoke no English). I also know a tiny amount of Japanese.

I'm contemplating whether to work on my existing proficiency or add a con-lang to the mix like Esperanto or Belter Creole.

English and some of the essentials in Thai, such as how to tell someone they're beautiful. (Khun suay mak krap)

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

English and viet I speak well

Learning spanish and german

English

Spanglish

Some SQL

Danish native
English fluent
I can pronounce German quite well imo
In Finnish i can say "my bunny is cute"

English (fluent)

Dutch (bad)

French (basics)

Japanese (basics)

Standard German (native)

Lower Austrian German (fluent)

Bavarian German (fluent)

Saxonian German (fluent)

Vienna German (good)

Hamburgian German (OK)

Berlin German (OK)

Northern German (OK)

Swabian German (OK)

Platt German (bad)

Tyrolean German (bad)

Swiss German (worse) - Yes, for me it's easier to understand Dutch than Swiss German

Dutch natively

English fluently

German understandably

Toddler level Korean.

1. Danish
2. Swedish
3. German
4. English
5. Japanese
6. French

Only English fluently.

I can speak a tiny bit of Spanish. Enough to order food, ask for directions etc.

I can also sort of decipher the meaning of sentences in German, but not fast enough to have a conversation.

I'm fluent in Spanish and English, speak like a first grader in Japanese, and read Italian and Portuguese a little. I can even read Greek and Russian a little but that's more because I used their letters all the time in engineering and math stuff.

Romanian and english can speak well

I can translate, write and speak in toki pona and latin if i have a dictionary(i couldnt memorize the words)

French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (a bit less than fluent). Started learning Japanese at one point and quit. Can still speak and understand some, but I've given up on learning kanjis. Understand a'd speak some Haitian creole (also less than fluent).

Spanish as native language, and I'm proficient in catalan and English.

I'm quite confident in german, i'm cuarrently taking lessons to pass the B1 exam next course.

Beyond these languages, the ones i have enough confidence to say i can speak them, I also speak some japanese and I plan to take the japanase JPLT N5. No rushes though. It's the introductory level.

• Chinese (Mandarin) - native
• English - fluent
• Japanese - still in the very early stages of learning

German, English, a tiny bit of French since I had that in school but forgot most of it. And a bunch of computer programming languages.

First language was Spanish, English is my daily language, self taught enough French to get by on a trip about a decade ago.

In all reality I could probably only sus out enough in Spanish or French to barely get by if really had to. I do still have all my training material and would like to continue learning. But low on my priority list

• Spanish (native)
• Portuguese (fluent)
• English (fluent)
• Italian (understand 99% but speak very badly)
• Russian (very basic and haven't trained in years, but enough that I was able to tourist around Russia a decade ago)

I've also studied some German but I don't think it's at any level worth mentioning. I can also say the phrase "Sorry I don't speak X, do you speak English?" In:

• German
• Dutch
• French
• Finnish (I can also say the weather is bad/good and obviously Perkele hahah)

Essentially every country that I've visited I can at least ask the person if they speak English, I consider it rude to ask that question in English.

It's complicated. Short version: Portuguese and Italian.

Long version:

• Portuguese - native
• Italian - have been learning it since a kid. It's by no means native speaker level, but I feel rather confident in the language.
• Venetian - I can speak some but I can't write stuff in the language without pulling out a dic. My knowledge of the language is rusting and it pains me.
• English - written only.
• German - I can speak and write some. I use it mostly with my cat.
• Latin - Classical pronunciation and rather decent vocab. Can read Caesar unaided without too much trouble, Cicero is another can of worms.
• French - studied it a long, looooong time ago. Completely forgotten.
• Russian, Ukrainian - sometimes I play a bit with both but I don't speak or write either, I just know Cyrillic. I tend to use Cyrillic a fair bit for my personal notes but it's always with Italian or Latin, it's just so people don't snoop on my notes.
• Spanish - I never studied the language, my pronunciation is awful, but if I wasn't able to read it I'd seriously question my own basic literacy for Portuguese and Italian.

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I'm fluent/native-level in English + my native language (not disclosing)

With Japanese I'm semi-fluent in conversations, and intermediate-advanced in reading and comprehension

German I understand at an intermediate level but very bad at speaking

And I know some beginner-intermediate level Chinese.

I also hope to learn Norwegian and Korean on top of that.

Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian all on master level,

English learned in school as secondary language.

Can understand all the other balkan languages to some degree.

German, English and enough French to greet someone or order a baguette. I can also understand some Dutch (both written and verbal), but I don't really speak it.

Cantonese, English and Mandarin, ordered by confidence.

I sometimes feel special for being a Hongkonger who speaks Cantonese and writes Traditional Chinese, as they are not very common.

I feel that extremely when people think that I'm an American and accuse me of thinking "dollar" is the only currency unit in the world. (Sorry for the rant)

This one.

English natively, enough Spanish to make friends, enough French to stay out of trouble, and enough Italian to get into trouble. I also have some transactional German (groceries, tickets, coffee, etc). I'm American.

It would take me a few months of daily practice to prepare and get comfortable with anything but Spanish. I haven't studied the other languages formally, only independently, for travel.