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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Alternatively, in the languages I speak:

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie? (Deutsch/German)

¿Qué idiomas habla usted? (Español/Spanish)

Quelle langue parlez-vous? (Français/French)

EDIT: These sentences are now up to date.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati

Only reading: Japanese, Arabic, Russian

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Depends on who you ask. I'm American and went to the UK. I was looking to pick up my rental car, you know, so I could drive on the wrong side of the road and found a sign that read, "rental car collection." I had to ask a local who was doing the collecting, because I don't speak English. " If I was collecting the car, it's a pick up. If they were collecting the car it's a drop off. So....

I also butcher German and Spanish pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ma langue maternelle est le français. Je suis né et vis au Québec, d’une famille canadienne française assez typique. Mes habiletés d’écriture sont plutôt fortes à en croire mes notes à l’école, mais je les pratique très peu. Je ne le parle pas aussi bien que je l’écris…

Otherwise I’m pretty proficient in English. I’d say I’m more or less bilingual at this point. I cannot seem to enjoy fiction books nearly as much in the language though. I can’t really appreciate the differences in style well enough, I think.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

English. Poorly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Português brasileiro fluente/nativo.

Read/Write fluent English, a bit broken speech.

Ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch lesen/verstehen. Es war meine erste Sprache, aber ich habe das meiste davon vergessen, als ich Portugiesisch lernte.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Portuguese, English, enough to understand Spanish, learning French now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

English, Russian, Czech (used to be fluent, but haven't used in a while), Mandarin (a bit, still learning)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I am a native English speaker y hablo un poco español und ich sprache ein bisschen Deutch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

English is the only language I'm even vaguely proficient in, really.

Le francais est le loin ma deuxieme langue la plus forte. Mais ce n'est toujours pas tres bon, et je dois passer beaucoup de temps pour ecrire dans francais, et generalement rechercher quelques mots ou expressions. Mais ma grammaire est assez bonne, je pense.

I also spent a few years learning Spanish, but almost none of it stuck. And a few years learning Korean while living in Korea. I learnt a few of the necessary words and phrases relating to restaurants and taxis, and some very rudimentary grammar. And being able to read the script is a neat party trick. And one year of actual Vietnamese education + a few more years of peripheral exposure to the language while I lived there. Even less of it stuck than the Spanish though.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

straylian, and that's about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

English, spanish , turkish.

I can understand , through mutual intelligibility , azerbaycani, portuguese... then some itallian and some french.

I studied german for 5 years in school and forgot it all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mi parolas iomete da Esperanton, y yo hablo tambien un poquito Español, pero medyo fluent ako sa Pilipino, ang wika taga sa Pilipinas. I’m pretty good at English, too.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I mean. im not so good at english as a native speaker. near the end of college my friend and I traded transcripts and his comment was. you get pretty good grades. oh except in spanish. when I had classes that were straight up english classes I similarly did not do well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Native German, fluent English, full working proficiency in Norwegian, (understand Swedish and Danish as a direct consequence), somewhat proficient in Dutch and French, and my Chinese is enough to get by. Couldn't hold a longer conversation though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Samples from the four I know:

My name is Leni.

Nimi mi li Leni.

Hake anni Leni.

-- -.-- / -. .- -- . / .. ... / .-.. . -. .. .-.-.-

Samples from ones I know selectively:

O Leni to'u i'oa.

Ko Leni toku ingoa.

Meu nome é Leni.

Je m'appelle Léni.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hablo español de forma nativa. I can read, write and understand by ear English, but I refuse to speak it because the pronunciation rules of English are shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Or are they shite? You're right we're fucked.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I only speak two languages: English and bad English.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

straylian, and that's about it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Us paraprau ite te reo Tahiti.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

你會哪些語言?(Traditional Chinese)

That's about it. I am an interpreter and translator between English and Chinese.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Native English, conversational japanese, survival German (I was conversational at one point, but it's mostly gone), a tiny bit of french (same as German), very basic Spanish, and a tiny bit of Hebrew (I wanted to learn something in the semitic family and it seemed less intimidating than Arabic to start with)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I speak English. Je ne parle qu'un peu le français.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm just here to Beetlejuice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
  1. Polish
  2. German
  3. Swedish
  4. English

And I'm learning Korean now but it's so damn difficult it's very frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ah, Polish, very neat!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Native English speaker. I learned some French in school and enough Japanese to get through a judo match. I struggle to retain other languages. Everywhere I go everyone speaks English and it's hard to justify learning a new one even everyone in a 1000 mile radius speaks English.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

English, Swedish, and Finnish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Native English speaker. I learned some French in school and enough Japanese to get through a judo match. I struggle to retain other languages. Everywhere I go everyone speaks English and it's hard to justify learning a new one even everyone in a 1000 mile radius speaks English.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)
  • I have spoken English since birth.
  • Je parle français depuis l'âge de 7 ans, parce que je l'apprenais à l'école.
  • Estudiaba el español en la escuela secundaria.
  • Jag lär mig svenska i fler än tio år.
  • Ich kann etwas Deutsch lesen und verstehen.

And thanks to my Swedish, I can read a surprising amount of Danish and Norwegian.

I would call myself proficient in French, passable in Spanish, barely functional in Swedish, and I can get by in German in a very banal emergency. 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

“à l’école”, but otherwise flawless. You don’t see complex sentences with properly conjugated verbs from a lot of second language speakers, so I have a feeling your French is indeed pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huh…where’d you learn Swedish?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mostly self study from a variety of sources. I lived part time in Stockholm for four years, but it was far easier than I'd expected to speak only English, so although my reading and writing improved, my speaking and listening didn't. Every time I tried, they switched to English on me. I don't blame them.

Now I'm a bit stuck: I can't find much to listen to that's at my level. I'm past the beginner stuff but can't keep up with Swedish spoken at full speed.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

thanks, this is going to help with my exposure.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

French, English, German and a little spoken Japanese. I also studied latin

Edit: in French we say: « Quelles langues parlez-vous ? »

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

(Or, let's be honest, more likely « Quelles langues parles-tu ? »)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Oh damn. It didn't even occur to me that we were talking plural here lol

Obviously you're right.

edit: I honestly hate the fact that English doesn't have a non-vernacular way to distinguish between singular and plural in the 2nd person. Makes it so much harder to get my head around this sort of situation. "What languages do yous speak?" Would make it so much easier!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nederlands is my native language. And I speak English, some German and I can make a fool of myself in French. And I can order a beer in Spanish and thank you for it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

English natively und ich lerne Deustch (aber ich spreche nur ein bisschen)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

English natively, but I also speak Spanish every day at work. I can read and write Latin. I can exchange pleasantries in half a dozen other languages.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Was Sprachen Sie spricht? (Deutsch/German)

I'm not a native speaker, but I'm pretty sure it's

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie?

assuming you want to be formal, which feels a little weird to me in the context of an internet forum.

Edit: but to answer your question: fluent English, mehr als ein Bißchen Deutsch, y un poquito Español.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sehr gut, danke! Muy bien!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I would like to know how a native german speaker would say it. But I would say like you

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It is indeed normal to use 'du' pretty much everywhere on the internet. Even in French i never see 'vous' (which to me feels more common than Sie in German usually).

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