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

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    Mexican here:

    Spanish & English - Fluent

    Japanese - Intermediate-advanced

    French - Still learning but it’s so similar to Spanish it feels like cheating 😅

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      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.

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    US. I speak ok Mandarin, poor Spanish and bad Portuguese. And I guess English. Also I can’t read Chinese reliably, so I am also illiterate.

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    I’m part Scottish, part English. I speak:

    English - idiomatically
    French - conversationally
    Italian - I just want to reply to people in French all the time
    German - I can ask where the station is
    Japanaese - I can say ‘I do not understand’

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    9 hours ago

    From Mexico Magico, and I speak Spanish, English, enough French and enough Portuguese brasileiro to get by. And I am currently working on improving my Korean because I live in a city that has a huge community.

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    The UK.

    I am fluent in English and good enough in Mandarin to get by.

    Earlier in life I was passable at French in France, but I have lost that now. It’s been overwritten by the Mandarin from having spent a few years in the PRC teaching English.

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    From Germany and know German and English. I can read Dutch and understand snippets but speaking it is beyond me.

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      I wish I knew how to write Korean nicely. Is definitely easier to speak for me than to write it lol.

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    Depends what you mean.

    By country of birth: I’m from PRC

    As in “Where are you posting from?”: USA

    I speak Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and the the basic words of Spanish such as: ¡Hola!, Uno, Dos, Tres, Bruenos Dias, Muy Bien, ¿e tu?, Me habla pizza (Thanks, Spanish class. Still can’t get the Spanish alphabet song out of my head lol 😅). And I can read like English (obviously), most basic Chinese characters, I think I know the top 100 of them, I’m more confident in identifying the characters if its in simplified. And techically, I can read the Kanji parts of Japanese (since they are basically Chinese). I hear some Japanese and Koreans words and can make out some of the words because they are so close to Cantonese. (I think Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese, decended from a common language). I could only write in English, after 10+ years of never using Chinese, I can’t write shit beside like few basic words and my name in Chinese.

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      (I think Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese, decended from a common language)

      Idk about Korean but I do know that Japanese loaned tons of words from Chinese when they imported Kanji but they’re otherwise unrelated afaik.

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    South Africa and pretty much just English. Apparently I was fairly fluent in Zulu when I was little kid, before starting school and losing it. And we learnt Afrikaans in school but Afrikaans kids went to Afrikaans schools and I grew up and lived in English speaking areas so it was never used. If I tried to speak Afrikaans now, I would embarrass myself but I can mostly read it and understand someone if they’re talking slow enough and I’m concentrating hard enough.

    Honestly something that pisses me off is that despite going through school in the ‘new’ South Africa, the new government never bothered making sure we learnt to communicate with each other. So instead of learning Zulu and being able to freely communicate with the majority of the population, we learnt Afrikaans because they never fucking bothered to change it.

    I can also understand very small bits and pieces of written and spoken German from high school but that’s barely worth mentioning. Also, I can kinda sometimes understand a little bit of written Dutch because it’s remotely similar to Afrikaans.

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    Hungarian, so beyond that that i speak english (duh) swedish, though i mostly read books on it, not a lot of swedes around, and i am trying to pick up some chinese now

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      There’s a Hungarian hardcore band I like called Aws. It’s a really neat language. I don’t understand a word of it sadly. Maybe someday.

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        8 hours ago

        Ah, nice. Have not heard of them, funnily enough. But i am all for hardcore so there is that :D how did you learn about them?

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          8 hours ago

          They were on Eurovision representing Hungary. I listen to alot of non-English music. This is the song if you’re interested. I think their singer passed away unfortunately.

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            7 hours ago

            Thanks, I’ll check it out. I don’t really follow music recently all that much so i guess it explains it