Becky (she/they/he)Why do people say illegals should go back to where they came from and is it a matter of racism?
First_ThunderNative Portuguese, “decent “ English
Eu falo português bastante bem, oiii
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Ada¡Hola! Todavía estoy aprendiendo español pero puedo hablar en español bastante bien también
Pero todavía olvido palabras por algunas cosas y cometo errores. Entiendo más de lo que hablo.
sudoMakeUserJajajaja
Holaaaa, hispanohablante
finallymadeanaccountI speak native English (Traditional) and am fairly proficient in Swedish, having learnt it for a few years. I still often make grammatical mistakes though
Native English
A tiny bit of French. My public school French education was a bit of a mess, lots of long-term substitutes and then substitutes for those substitutes, so none of it really stuck. If someone talks slowly I can usually catch the gist of what they’re saying, but probably wouldn’t be able to string the words together to respond.
And I’ve gotten myself to be somewhat passable at Esperanto using Duolingo.
I may make another run at learning French at some point.
Wouldn’t mind learning Polish, Italian, Gaelic, and/or Albanian, since that’s where my ancestors came from. Never been particularly great at language-learning though so that’s a huge stretch.
Also always thought it would be cool to learn Unami (the language spoken by the Lenape people who originally lived in the area I do)
And I’ve spent enough time in tiki bars that I occasionally think about learning Hawaiian or some other Polynesian language
Finnish, German, English, Ukrainian, Estonian, Swedish, Latvian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French. A little Italian and Portuguese as well. I did manage to explain some simple things in Czech some days ago, and I can read south-Slavic languages surprisingly well. And often decipher the main point of a text in Romanian.
Almost no Hungarian or Mandarin, though very simple questions are possible anyway. And then of course I can read Norwegian and Danish reasonably well, because if you know Swedish, English, German and Dutch, you already know Danish. And for a similar reason, Slovak goes.
I can speak less than five words of Albanian, Basque, Greek, Welsh, Breton, any Gaelic language or any Sámi language. Those are something should probably learn a bit, at least.
illiPerhaps asking which languages you don’t speak woulf work better in your case, holly shit.
HazelOne of the languages I am not sufficiently fluent in, yet, is that of Australia and USA. What does “Diction needed” mean in this context?
TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾I could be wrong but I think it’s a play on “citation needed” (i.e., they don’t believe you)
Diction is speech (like dire in French), and it was a bit of wordplay on the common expression ‘citation needed’ like the other commenter said :) Basically joking that a claim to speak a language should be backed up by saying something in that language to be believed.
No kurienes tev zināt, ka neesmu vinkarši izmantojis tulkojuma aparātes? :)
Eble vi devus usi telefonon en paroli kun mi. Mi ne scias.
Pero, quien quiere, puede me llamar por exemple con Matrix. У початку просто думав, що й так ніхто мене вірятіме, якщо віряті не хоче. Und wer meenen Wörtern glohben will, tut es ja eh. So is halt det Leben.
Aber jut, nu är nånting skrivits :)
e8CArkcAuLEi like how your german reflects eastern german accent lol
dit is jut
Hab in nem jewissn deutschen Bundeshohptstadt ehnige Jährchen jewohnt, janz im Osten dessen.
“Essieben na Hohptnohf, zobite!” Det kan man wohl nua liebn!
Oßadem: wenn ick dieset Dings “spreche” werde ick öfters jfracht ob ick ohs Österroisch komme oder der Schweiz, da wa mit finnischm Akzent bahliniat, wird anscheinend zum Ledahosnträjer. Dat ick meene letzen 6 Monate dort damals für ne Firma ohs Linz jearbeitet hab, hat ooch sehnen Effekt jehabt.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Igpay Atinlay.
Native Norwegian, fluent English, proficient Danish and Swedish, intermediate German, basic mandarin.
Heyyyyy, en nordmenn her!!! Hvordan går det?
jøss, det er tre av oss
god bedring, neidu
Greg ClarkeNative English speak (Australian) and I didn’t get full marks when I did my Canadian permit residency English test. That’s all I speak and apparently not well.
kluczyczka (she/her)OnO
i found a german (federal republik of ~) text once that quoted a german text published in switzerland marking a word that was written with double-s instead of s-z-ligature (ß) with “[sic!]” as if the orthography of their neighbors were a mistake.
(´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
most niche: studied ugaritic for 3 semesters. (not really a conversational skill but with the arabic and hebrew i know it made for a surprisingly nice “reading phoenician inscriptions at the museum”-day. see it is useful, father!)
English, German and Spanish at native level, decent level of french, and i can fuss together itañolo and portunhol and read it without mayor difficulties.
but i got comfortable and stopped learning more :/
native English
learned French (4 years in high school)
仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。
OriginEnergySuxAussie and English
tired_n_boredItalian, Neapolitan, English fluently
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)English, obviously. Native-level (but technically not native-speaker since according to some linguists), started learning since 8 years old with full immersion.
Cantonse and Mandarin. Native languages.
Cantonese used at home.
Understand a bit of Taishanese but not well enought to speak full sentences… (mostly curse words xD). Parents never spoke to me in Taishanese. Parents speak Taishanese with grandparents.
Can read basic Chinese characters (simplified… looking at traditional gives me headaches)… I can type with Pinyin and Jyutping… can’t write… (its like you know what a picture looks like but hard to draw that picture by hand… know what I mean?)
I went to school in China till 2nd grade…
I remember teachers had a meter stick and would slap your hand with it as “discipline” and my mom APRROVES OF IT… 💀
They would throw chalk at you if you looked like you weren’t paying attention… (sometimes they missed and hit another kid xD)
They played the stupid National Anthem just like the US does.
They make you memorize whole short story and recite it and make you stay late afterschool if and make you recite it… and I remember sometimes they had another kid standing behind the teacher and held the book open so the other kid being quizzed on it can secretly cheat off of it lmfao…
I can probably survive in Mainland China, HK, Taiwan, as a tourist, without needing translation… (I’m gonna sound like a 2nd grader tho lol)
Honestly I rather just forget those languages and become monolingual if it means not have to deal with the cultural baggage…
为什么华人父母这么恶？烦的要死。。。😭
屌那星
English and French. I can understand a bit of Spanish, but learning French ruined my pronunciation. I can read Cyrillic, but know almost nothing about Russian.
Native English, very basic German from school.
I want to learn another language but can’t decide which.
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Owltoki a! mi kama sona e toki pona kin. lon tomo sona mi la, kulupu pi toki pona li lon a!
Hebrew and English. I have tried once or twice to learn a third language but I just don’t have the discipline for it.
Hebrew is my native tongue, and English I speak pretty much at a native level simply by lots and lots of being online and watching TV from a young age, and often chatting with my sister in English for no real reason. I’ve even got a pretty convincing American accent. In hindsight I would have preferred most British accents, but I can’t seem to change it now (refer to the aforementioned discipline issue).
I still regularly talk to two of my friends in English, still for no apparent reason. We just switch between Hebrew and English arbitrarily.
Lumelore (She/her)Native English. Did 5 years of French in highschool. I picked it back up recently and have been focusing more on colloquial French.
switcherooEnglish. Only. And lucky to be able to at above a fifth grade level.
Guess the shithole country!
InternetCitizen2Texas?
Native Dutch, fluent English, flhent German and French, I can carry a conversation in Spanish and Italian, and some baby steps in Japanese.
The Dutch are so dope, I feel every Dutch person knows like at least 5 languages
Some of the Scandinavians too! Like I knew a guy (wasn’t born in Sweden) but moved at a young age and was born in Poland. He speaks Swedish, English, Polish, and probably more
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