I only speak two languages, English and bad English
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Submitted 1 day ago by may_be@thelemmy.club to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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toomanypancakes@piefed.world 23 hours ago
scops@reddthat.com 23 hours ago
Super green, Korben my man.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Native Norwegian, fluent English, proficient Danish and Swedish, intermediate German, basic mandarin.
may_be@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Heyyyyy, en nordmenn her!!! Hvordan går det?
ChristerMLB@piefed.social 6 hours ago
jøss, det er tre av oss
god bedring, neidu
switcheroo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
English. Only. And lucky to be able to at above a fifth grade level.
Guess the shithole country!
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Texas?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
Idk something in africa?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Eh, in all reality, only English.
I have a small amount of Spanish vocabulary, but that’s not the same as speaking it.
I am almost fluent in medicalese, so I can sometimes kinda fumble my way through limited ranges of Latin.
I used to be able to do a little ASL, but never reached fluency, and I’ve lost damn near all of it.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
English and Vietnamese
Learning German but maybe thinking of learning some other language instead, maybe Spanish or something not sure
rosco385@lemmy.wtf 19 hours ago
I’m a native English speaker, 但是我可以說一點中文。
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
懂多少?
我的中文知识达到二年级水平,在国内读过书。然后就出国了。
只会打拼音,不懂怎么用手写。
(try without google translate for practice)
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Igpay Atinlay.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
Hungarian, French, English at native and C2+
German at B1-B2
And I can somewhat understand written Spanish and Italian
loonsun@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
That’s the French. My fiancée can do that too as a francophone
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
Exactly, it’s very nice when seeing Spanish comments online and seems very impressive to people who don’t speak Latin languages
StickyDango@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
English and swearing.
Used to be fluent in French, but nobody to talk to to practice so I’ve lost a lot of it. Basic Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, German. Learning Gaeilge.
loonsun@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
English (Native), French (B1-B2 depending on the day), and just started trying to learn Ukrainian
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
仕事の時には英語だけで、暇な時には英語と日本語。
Melobol@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Hungarian, English and passively German.
Can say basic phrases in Spanish, in Italian and in Japanese.SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I can swear fluently in Italian, French and Spanish.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
Bojler eladó!
Melobol@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Mi a helyzet a szesz kazánnal?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
English, and quite well.
I’ve tried Spanish, German, Japanese, Esperanto, and a smattering of others. I just don’t have the mental temperament for language learning, I’m a math guy. I’m already very proficient in arguably the most useful one, and I just can’t justify the time and effort that I could be using to learn other more broadly useful topics.
I promised my wife I’d learn her native language alongside our future children, but that’s a future me problem.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’ve tried Spanish, German, Japanese, Esperanto, and a smattering of others. I just don’t have the mental temperament for language learning, I’m a math guy.
It’s funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language (maybe from various distinct formation languages competiting in order to shape modern english)
I promised my wife I’d learn her native language alongside our future children, but that’s a future me problem.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow! You can make it easier by finding a fun way to do it; e.g start with duolingo for basics then play a game/watch a movie you know well in that language.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
It’s funny you mention the math because i hear english is bizarrely efficient as a language
Maybe, but I think it’s mostly just that it’s my native language and I was a voracious reader in my childhood so I got really good at it. I do appreciate the Germanic composite nature, but I didn’t, like, actively choose English.
Given how long it takes you might want to get started tomorrow!
Eh, like I said, that’s a future me problem. I think the “fun” way is going to be learning along with my kids. Start with the basics, consume simple media, immersion, all that. I’m not too worried about it, if I need to supplement with other methods I’ll supplement. But I think the time it takes the kids to become fluent will be long and gradual enough to work for me.
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Native Portuguese and English, fluent Spanish, absolutely terrible German, and the one semester of French I took just made me determined to never speak it. “Quatre-vingt-douze” isn’t a number, it’s an algebra problem.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 day ago
Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.
Nomad@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
German natively, English fluently, basic French, a few words Japanese.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
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.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently
e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
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 :/
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
English, some Spanish.
I’m pretty shy so I don’t really do small talk with anyone Spanish even though I live here. I can get by obviously but it’s nowhere near conversational.
hellequin67@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
English and passable Spanish
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
fart and cum mostly
ChristerMLB@piefed.social 6 hours ago
may_be@thelemmy.clubOP•2h
fluent in both, I presume?
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
english and korean. i’d like to learn more but i’m too lazy tbh
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
English, obviously.
Cantonse and Mandarin.
Understand a bit of Taishanese but not well enought to speak full sentences… (mostly curse words xD). Parents never spoke to me in Taishanese.
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
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Aussie and English
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Native Finnish, some swedish(this basically every Scandinavian language) and learning Latvian
Oh, and this quite niche language spoken in parts of great Britain, northern americas and basically every single country in the world called Americano
aeiou@piefed.social 1 day ago
Toki a! Mi kama sona e toki pona.
may_be@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
toki a! mi kama sona e toki pona kin. lon tomo sona mi la, kulupu pi toki pona li lon a!