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lemmy.world

I have a 600 day streak on Duolingo in Japanese. So yeah I know English and JavaScript.

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  • Spanish (native)
  • Portuguese (fluent)
  • English (fluent)
  • Italian (understand 99% but speak very badly)
  • Russian (very basic and haven't trained in years, but enough that I was able to tourist around Russia a decade ago)

I've also studied some German but I don't think it's at any level worth mentioning. I can also say the phrase "Sorry I don't speak X, do you speak English?" In:

  • German
  • Dutch
  • French
  • Finnish (I can also say the weather is bad/good and obviously Perkele hahah)

Essentially every country that I've visited I can at least ask the person if they speak English, I consider it rude to ask that question in English.

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FastIron, NOS, PowerCLI, BASH, PowerSHell, esxcli, ComWare, Enterasys/Extreme, enough of MSSQL, Python, C++ to be dangerous

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English (fluent), Esperanto (competent), Spanish (rusty)

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lemmy.today

English, C++; Z80, 6502, and 45GS02 assembly, some SQL, VHDL, a bit of Python and Verilog, BASIC65, bash, CP/M ED, and a few other odds and ends

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lemmy.today

I am fully aware, I speak nerd and computer.

The computers speak back. It's a good time.

I might be going insane?

I'm also ripping off being inspired by another comment.

Poe's law strikes again?

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lemmy.today

I... I...

I have no words.

How someone could genuinely believe that is beyond me.

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Perfectly fluent: English

Fluent at talking and reading, but can't write (horrible at spelling): Telugu (in two very different dialects)

Illiterate, but can understand everything spoken: Kannada

Can hold tourist level conversations and can read: German and Hindi

What is a tourist level conversation? Talk slowly, pronounce stuff weird, ask ppl to repeat some things if they go too fast or have an accent that's different than the one I learned.

I've noticed that I only know languages in the indo-European and Dravidian families. Deliberating between whether to improve my Kannada or to learn a new east or south east Asian language next to increase my language family count.

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Only English fluently.

I can speak a tiny bit of Spanish. Enough to order food, ask for directions etc.

I can also sort of decipher the meaning of sentences in German, but not fast enough to have a conversation.

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Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian all on master level,

English learned in school as secondary language.

Can understand all the other balkan languages to some degree.

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English natively, enough Spanish to make friends, enough French to stay out of trouble, and enough Italian to get into trouble. I also have some transactional German (groceries, tickets, coffee, etc). I'm American.

It would take me a few months of daily practice to prepare and get comfortable with anything but Spanish. I haven't studied the other languages formally, only independently, for travel.

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English and enough Spanish to get by if I was lost in Mexico.

Though many words in many languages have a similar root word, so even signage in languages I don't speak but at least use the same alphabet are usually understandable.

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English is my native language. I have a smattering of Malay from early childhood (my mother's first language), and have limited proficiency in ASL, German, Spanish, Italian, Irish, French, and Finnish (my proudest language moment was purchasing an apple from an old farmer in Helsinki who spoke no English). I also know a tiny amount of Japanese.

I'm contemplating whether to work on my existing proficiency or add a con-lang to the mix like Esperanto or Belter Creole.

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Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

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Cantonese, English and Mandarin, ordered by confidence.

I sometimes feel special for being a Hongkonger who speaks Cantonese and writes Traditional Chinese, as they are not very common.

I feel that extremely when people think that I'm an American and accuse me of thinking "dollar" is the only currency unit in the world. (Sorry for the rant)

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English and French fluently. English is my mother tongue. French I learned in an immersion program in primary school. I didn't study french at all in highschool or postsecondary, and always hated it during primary because my parents put me in immersion to "challenge" me. I started working for the Canadian federal government after uni, and they have pretty robust training programs for getting to full french fluency from any starting skill level. Plus, there's a bit of a glass ceiling for monolingual public servants in the federal government.

Recently started dating a Chinese girl and so I'm trying to teach myself a bit of Chinese. It's not as hard as I expected it to be, but it is very hard. In many ways it's the opposite experience of learning French relative to English. Learning French, the vocabulary is pretty easy and the grammar is very hard. Learning Chinese, the grammar is dead easy but the vocabulary is really hard.

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English

A very tiny bit of French, I can understand more than I can speak if they talk slowly, my French education was kind of shitty and it's been well over a decade since high school since I've really used it so

I've been learning Esperanto on Duolingo, it's been going pretty well, I'm just about at the point where I can confidently read a book without having too look up too many words. I'm far from fluent, but I getting there.

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I'm fluent/native-level in English + my native language (not disclosing)

With Japanese I'm semi-fluent in conversations, and intermediate-advanced in reading and comprehension

German I understand at an intermediate level but very bad at speaking

And I know some beginner-intermediate level Chinese.

I also hope to learn Norwegian and Korean on top of that.

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German, English and enough French to greet someone or order a baguette. I can also understand some Dutch (both written and verbal), but I don't really speak it.

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In order of fluency: Dutch, English, German, French, Mandarin.

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lemm.ee

English (fluent)

Dutch (bad)

French (basics)

Japanese (basics)

Standard German (native)

Lower Austrian German (fluent)

Bavarian German (fluent)

Saxonian German (fluent)

Vienna German (good)

Hamburgian German (OK)

Berlin German (OK)

Northern German (OK)

Swabian German (OK)

Platt German (bad)

Tyrolean German (bad)

Swiss German (worse) - Yes, for me it's easier to understand Dutch than Swiss German

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lemmy.world

Are all those Germans really different enough to count separately?

Like, I wouldn’t know how to distinguish my fluency in American English from British English. And that’s not even getting to Canadian, Australian, Irish… the differences are far more cultural than linguistic.

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Yes, German dialects can vary greatly for example here's the same sentence "I have an apple." in different German dialects:

Standard German:

"Ich habe einen Apfel."

Northern German / Platt:

"Ik hab en Appel."

Middle German / Saxonian:

" 'sch'habm Abbl." ( 'sch is pronounced like sh)

Southern German / Bavarian & Austrian:

"I hob an Opfü." (I is pronounced like the single letter E)

The Southern Germans are the ones with the Schwarzenegger accent.

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Spanish (native), English (fluent).

Edit: Me emociona leer que tantas personas están aprendiendo español 🫶...

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Spanish as native language, and I'm proficient in catalan and English.

I'm quite confident in german, i'm cuarrently taking lessons to pass the B1 exam next course.

Beyond these languages, the ones i have enough confidence to say i can speak them, I also speak some japanese and I plan to take the japanase JPLT N5. No rushes though. It's the introductory level.

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German, English, a tiny bit of French since I had that in school but forgot most of it. And a bunch of computer programming languages.

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اللغة الأم: العربية

Other languages: English (obviously), French (non fluent), Dutch (still really really bad at it, not well enough to communicate with it yet)

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First language was Spanish, English is my daily language, self taught enough French to get by on a trip about a decade ago.

In all reality I could probably only sus out enough in Spanish or French to barely get by if really had to. I do still have all my training material and would like to continue learning. But low on my priority list

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Romanian and english can speak well

I can translate, write and speak in toki pona and latin if i have a dictionary(i couldnt memorize the words)

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I'm fluent in Spanish and English, speak like a first grader in Japanese, and read Italian and Portuguese a little. I can even read Greek and Russian a little but that's more because I used their letters all the time in engineering and math stuff.

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English and some of the essentials in Thai, such as how to tell someone they're beautiful. (Khun suay mak krap)

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lemmings.world

Danish native
English fluent
I can pronounce German quite well imo
In Finnish i can say "my bunny is cute"

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lemmy.world

what's the story behind that one finnish sentence? :D terveisiä suomesta

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Nothing interesting really, I might get the opportunity to move to Finland for a year, so I've practiced Finnish through Duolingo if that becomes a reality :)

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