I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.
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.
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.
India - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and English
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.
Nice try glowy
glowy?
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
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.
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 :)
I’m from Japan and Japanese is my first language. I hate it.
Which part? Being from Japan or the language?
Both.
I hate it.
Can you elaborate?
I also wonder, what is the hubbub
Nope. Too much reasons to hate this country.
Talked to two Japanese students who went to Europe because they hated their home country, like you do. Both were adamant they would have become a number in the suicide statistic if they wouldn’t have gotten out of the country. They didn’t plan on returning, ever.
Just saying there is a way out, I guess that’s what I thought was needed to be said.
That’s good to hear. I’m planning to study in Europe.
Ireland. First language English, second Irish (but only in the education system), learning Russian
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
