I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.

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    Ireland. First language English, second Irish (but only in the education system), learning Russian

  • US. Fluent in English but I can speak enough spanish to do most everyday things. I am learning Japanese, and while I can read and understand about half of it, I can’t pronounce shit and haven’t bothered practicing since I just want to read it.

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    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 :)

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    The second part is easy to answer:

    1. German
    2. Polish
    3. Swedish
    4. English
    5. 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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    American, English only but I need to learn Burmese as that’s where my daughter-in-law is from. Can’t have hypothetical grand kids speaking a language I don’t know.

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    From Croatia, can speak Croatia/Serbian/Bosnian at native level.

    Know english decently enough, can somewhat understand some small amount of german ( cousins that live in germany ), and can understand most balkan/slav languages.

    Dabbled into japanese with duolingo back in highschool almost 7 years ago and stopped cause tf is up with their writting system.

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    Swedish: Native English: Fluent to the point where it might as well be native Spanish: Alright, probably upper B2

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      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 ^^

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          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.

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    Norwegian.

    I’d say fluent in Norwegian, English and German. German because I lived there for a year and the missus is German.
    I can make myself understood in Spanish.
    Swedish and Danish come for free as they are so close to Norwegian. I don’t need to speak them as we understand eachother mostly.