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Have you ever studied Latin?
I can write or read Latin (Sic)
I've received education in Latin
I've studied some basics
No
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[POLL, 2 OF 3]
Can you speak, read or write Mandarin Chinese?
(你会说普通话吗？)
Yes (会)
Only the basics (一点)
No
我说粤语
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[POLL, 3 OF 3]
Can you speak Toki Pona?
(sina toki ala toki e toki pona?)
Yes (toki)
I studied it, but didn't retain
No
e sitelen pona ()
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[POLL, 4 OF 6]
Can you speak/read German?
(Sprechen Sie Deutsch?)
Yes (Ja)
A little (Ein wenig)
No
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[POLL, 5 OF 6]
Can you speak/read French?
(Parles-vous français?)
Yes (Oui)
A little (un peu)
No
Oui mé s'pa éviden d'me comprende
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[POLL, 6 OF 6]
Can you speak/read English?
(¿Hablas inglés?)
(Parles-vous anglais?)
(Sprechen Sie Englisch?)
（你会说英语吗？）
（英語を話しますか？）
(영어를 할 줄 아시나요?)
(sina toki ala toki e Inli?)
Yes
Yes, with difficulty
A little/un poco/un peu/ein wenig/少し/一点
No/Non/Nein/いいえ/不会/아니요/toki ala
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[POLL, 7 OF 9]
Can you read/speak Spanish?
(¿Hablas español?)
Yes (Si)
A little (Un poco)
No
Parlo català [o] Euskeraz hitz egiten dut
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[POLL, 8 OF 9]
Can you read/speak Japanese?
(日本語を話せますか？)
Yes (はい)
A little (少し)
No
かんじ は むずかしい
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[POLL, 9 OF 9]
Can you speak/read Korean?
(한국어를 할 줄 아세요?)
Yes (네)
A little (조금)
Hangul yes, Korean no
No
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[POLL, 10 OF 12]
Can you speak/read Portuguese?
(Você fala português?)
Yes (Sim)
A little (Um pouco)
No
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[POLL, 11 OF 12]
Can you speak/read Russian?
(Вы говорите по-русски?)
Yes (Да)
A little (Немного)
No
українська (або/ці) Беларуская
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[POLL, 12 OF 12]
Can you speak/read Vietnamese?
(Bạn có thể nói tiếng Việt không?)
Yes (Đúng)
A little (Một chút)
No
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[POLL, 13 OF 15]
Can you speak/read Polish?
(Czy mówisz po polsku?)
Yes (Tak)
A little (Trochę)
No
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[POLL, 14 OF 15]
Can you speak/read Arabic?
(هل تتكلم اللغة العربية؟)
Yes (نعم)
A little (قليلا)
No
Script yes, language no
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[POLL, 15 of 15]
Can you speak/read Filipino?
(Nagsasalita ka ba ng Filipino?)
Yes (Oo)
A little (Medyo)
No
Mas gusto kong tawagin ito na “Tagalog”
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[POLL, 16 OF 18]
Can you speak/read Hebrew?
(אתה יודע לדבר עברית? /
את יודעת לדבר עברית?)
Yes (כֵּן)
A little (קצת)
No
איך רעד ייִדיש
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[POLL, 17 OF 18]
Can you speak/read Hindi?
(क्या आप हिंदी बोलते हैं?)
Yes (हाँ)
A little (थोड़ा)
No
No, but another Indian-subcontinent language
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[POLL, 18 OF 18]
Can you speak/read Italian?
(Parli italiano?)
Yes (SÌ)
A little (Un po)
No
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scully@mcc No. despite being raised in a house where my mother spoke Italian. I assume some of the reason I was never taught was so it was easier to speak without prying (my) ears listening ;)
@mcc Actually the only Italian I learned were the words that would get me the wooden spoon if my mother heard me. Mostly learned via my nana.
JerrySto imparando.
Howard Chu @ Symas@mcc I was exposed to Italian thru music classes in grade school, both choir and orchestra. On top of that I read & performed a lot of Renaissance Italian songs
Cesare Forelli@mcc Un po ❌
Un po’ ✅
😉
halcy 
@mcc I do appreciate that my client mostly properly RTLd this entire poll
schrotthaufen@mcc I love that the poll is right to left 😂
@schrotthaufen LTR/RTL mixed rendering is a trip, man
nev
e. hashman 🇵🇸
Friedrich Delgado ✔️🎀@mcc (the alphabet but not read or write, really... I chanced upon a Jewish cemetery recently and was happy I could make out some of the names on the stones.)
Jimmy Jim@mcc FILIPINOS MENTIONED 💪 🇵🇭
Eric R
наб@mcc (ftr, strictly, this asks "do you speak polish" (as in, routinely) or "are you speaking polish" (as in, right now), and not "can you speak polish")
@nabijaczleweli Ah… tragic. Thank you tho
D@mcc @nabijaczleweli Luckily I suspect it won't affect the results of the vote.
masukomi@mcc i think i accidentally voted “a little” on this instead of no
@mcc hm this reads fine but a twinge off to me (overly formal maybe? or in this order it reads more like a question-forced statement than a question as in "And you speak russian, right?" vs "So, do you speak russian?"); I'd say "Говорите-вы" instead of "Вы говорите" here
@nabijaczleweli Thanks. This poll entry too was more reliant on Google Translate than it should have been.
@mcc that'd be "Czy umiesz mówić po polsku?"; "Tak"; "Trochę"; "Nie"
@nabijaczleweli thanks, I might post this later
Maksym Hazevych@mcc I'll assume that by "Ukrainian/Belarusian" you mean whether I know Russian due to the language being in common use in both Ukraine and Belarus.
Which is kind of an obvious assumption, but it isn't entirely clear from the text alone — the option doesn't say "I'm Ukrainian/Belarusian", but says "Ukrainian or Belarusian (language, specifically)" which is a weird answer to "Can you speak Russian?"
@mks_h The intent was to offer an option for people who speak the Belarusian or Ukrainian languages/dialects rather than Russian per se. (Previous entries in the thread have offered similar carveout options for Cantonese and Quebecois dialects). On this one option I was aware the wording was sub ideal but the Mastodon poll layout somewhat breaks if you post very long poll options :(
(It also would have been nice if Ukrainian/Belarusian had been checkboxes rather than a binary option.)
@mcc well then I'll have to educate you that neither Ukrainian nor Belarusian are dialects of Russian, and they never were. All three are languages of East-Slavic language group which diverged relatively recently — but they were never dialects of one another. Especially Russian is very different from the rest, somewhere at the level of Polish. The reason it is spoken or understood fluently is purely due to Russian Empire's and Soviet Union's policies to eradicate other Slavic languages.
@mks_h thanks. The impression I'd got from Wikipedia was that Ukranian was its own language but that Belarusian was closer to a dialect.
@mcc the English page on Belarusian seem to be really clear about it, so I'm not exactly sure why you got that idea... Or was that some other page? I'd like to know in case that can be corrected.
@mks_h I'll look later. Perhaps I simply misunderstood something.
@mcc now that I think about it, it may be the naming. The "Rus" in both Russia and Belarus comes from the old (IX-XIII) country of Rus (now referred to as Kyivan Rus) which is to some extent a common lineage for all three. For some time Ukraine (with Kyiv from Kyivan Rus at its capital) was also referred to as Little Rus by outsiders (while Ukrainians referred to themselves as we do now). And at some point the "Little Rus" turned into a modern derogatory "little-Russians" used by you guess whom.
Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус@mcc @mks_h yeah they are quite different. I've studied Russian a lot and now Ukrainian. When I see/hear Belarussian I can understand quite a lot but it's clearly another language.
Ukrainian compares to Polish and Russian, like Dutch to English and German. Knowing one doesn't really imply knowing/understanding the other.
Ukrainian compares to Polish and Russian, like Dutch to English and German. Knowing one doesn't really imply knowing/understanding the other.
Erin@mcc almost all the Russian words I know are aerospace and aircraft jargon, which are largely transliterated loan words. but I did learn "smatriy" from the bitchin betty in the DCS Ka-50
a pale slim ghost@mcc I voted “a little” but my answer is actually “I read cyrillic but don’t speak a word of any languages that use it”
@apaleslimghost Yeah, i've used the fourth option alternately for "i read the script" and "no but i speak this politically / linguistically related language" and here it would have made sense to ask both questions…