I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.
I’m part Scottish, part English. I speak:
English - idiomatically
French - conversationally
Italian - I just want to reply to people in French all the time
German - I can ask where the station is
Japanaese - I can say ‘I do not understand’I can say “I do not speak French” in six languages!
Me ne parolas la Francan.
Born & raised in the US, lived in Poland for the past several years. Speak a good bit of polish, enough to navigate most interactions with strangers but not enough for deep conversations with the father-in-law.
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.
Swedish: Native English: Fluent to the point where it might as well be native Spanish: Alright, probably upper B2
Önskar att vi hade ett lite mer aktiv community på lemmy, men ałła som kan svenska kan tydligen också engelska och behöver tydligen ingen svenskspråkig community eller så ^^
Jag gör.mitt bästa för att hålla lite liv i !sweden@lemmy.world. Jag är inte jättebra på att posta annat än nyheter jag bryr mig om dock, vilket leder till lite enformighet.
Oj av någon anledning har jag inte joinat den än. Fortsätt så, jag själv bor nu i Korea därför är det ännu svårare att bara se något man kan post om just Sverige, men ville hålla mig uppdaterat.
Och oss som lära sig svenska kan också följa med och kanske öva med riktig svensk folk. Det låter kul
Jeg er i færd med at lære dansk (og norsk), men jeg kan forstå næsten alt I har skrevet.
Vi kan titta på serien “bron” tillsammans :D
From Germany and i speak German, English and Spanish. I can survive daily life in French and Catalan, but its pretty rough. Currently, i am learning Persian :)
Mexican American. I speak English, Spanish and some Japanese.
Same here! But I’m Mexican from Mexico.
Last year I’ve gotten to reading full-length Japanese news articles with little to no help with the Kanjis.
It’s funny how many Latinos are naturally drawn to Japanese. I always blame the loads of anime we got throughout the 90s.
From Germany and know German and English. I can read Dutch and understand snippets but speaking it is beyond me.
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.
Lithuanian.
I speak Lithuanian, English, some Swedish and traces of Russian.
Australian here.
English and basic German
The UK.
I am fluent in English and good enough in Mandarin to get by.
Earlier in life I was passable at French in France, but I have lost that now. It’s been overwritten by the Mandarin from having spent a few years in the PRC teaching English.
I’m from the UK and speak English and am fluent in British Sign Language. I can speak enough French and Spanish to navigate a short holiday, which means I suck at both.
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.
Colombian here. I speak Spanish and English. I can read Portuguese, French, Catalan, Italian and little bits of Romanian and Esperanto. I have minimal understanding of Japanese, Dutch and Hindi.
I’m trying to balance learning Spanish and Esperanto. I’ll confess I’m much better at Esperanto. I’m still not anywhere near fluent.
The second part is easy to answer:
- German
- Polish
- Swedish
- English
- Korean (just started learning.
The first part is a bit more complicated, depending on what you are actually asking, where and who you are.
- If you’re asking where I live then it’s Korea.
- If you’re asking where I came from to Korea then it’s Sweden where I lived for 15 years
- If you’re asking what nationality I feed I belong to with my heart then it’s Germany where all my ancestors are from
- If you’re asking where I was born then it’s Poland
I hope you his answers your question.
Not completely, there are 2 Korea’s. But since internet access in one is extremily limited, I can make an educated guess in which one you live right now.
Nice track record by the way.
Ah yeah :D so South Korea, just for the record ^^
