I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.
Italy: Italian, English(mostly slang), some Spanish, some Esperanto, and some of my local language(Sardinian)
From Croatia, I’m multilingual!
English
Croatian
Serbian
Bosnian
Serbo-croatian
Montenegrin
Probably missing some.
Slovenian? Or don’t I dare ask that?
Slovenian is different, it is similar and could understand something but don’t know it.
Mexican here:
Spanish & English - Fluent
Japanese - Intermediate-advanced
French - Still learning but it’s so similar to Spanish it feels like cheating 😅
French was more confusing than Spanish was to me. I’m trying to learn Spanish actually. It’s a beautiful language.
United States and I speak English and a little Spanish but I wish I knew more Spanish.
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
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.
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?
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.
Thanks, I’ll check it out. I don’t really follow music recently all that much so i guess it explains it
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.
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.
Do you have a source for this? I’m Dutch native too, and have never heard of this.
The majority of Dutch people speak English at a decent level, but there are no non-immigrant native English speakers.
India - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and English
American, I speak English, Thai, and Korean.
I wish I knew how to write Korean nicely. Is definitely easier to speak for me than to write it lol.
Italy: Italian, English and a local language
You can’t just tease us like that, what’s the local language? The less common a language is the more interesting.
That’s true! I love less common languages. Well I can speak Neapolitan, a language spoken in Southern Italy.
Thank you, I had never heard of your language before. How similar is it to Italian? Is your language taught in schools and is it common?
Italy is a fairly a new country (it was born in 1861) and before that each part used to speak a different language which, just like Neapolitan, they are still alive. These languages and dialects are not taught in school so the only way to learn them is by listening to those who passed it on which I think it’s pretty cool.
In my day-to-day life I speak a mix of Italian and Neapolitan (but there are people who speak only the latter) but we try to use only the former when we speak to people from other parts of the country who wouldn’t be able to understand us. Nowadays our local language is getting “italianized” a bit but it’s still different from it, just like Spanish and Italian or other Romance languages.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to let Lemmers know about it :)
Thank you for teaching us. I love learning about languages.
From the UK originally, which is complicated enough. To foreigners I tend to say “England”, which (a) is true and (b) everyone understands. But I consider myself British, not English, and certain not a “UK person” (ugh).
I speak French near-natively from having lived there for a big chunk of my life. Spanish: intermediate, because it’s like French. German: got an A at GCSE decades ago, so not very good. Tried learning Russian a few years ago and, wow, that was hard. I cannot speak Russian. But being able to decipher the Cyrillic script is definitely a cool party trick.
I usually refer to England as Great Brittan? Is that generally preferred? Are there many Spanish speakers in Great Brittan?
I usually refer to England as Great Brittan? Is that generally preferred?
No, because it’s wrong!
- Great Britain = England + Scotland + Wales
- UK = Great Britain + Northern Ireland
- British = citizen of (careful!) UK
You’re welcome.
Are there many Spanish speakers in Great Brittan?
Far fewer than there are English speakers.
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.
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.UK, trying not to be a typical one-language Anglo by learning German. I’m thankful there seems to be a large German community on Lemmy!
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.
Lithuanian.
I speak Lithuanian, English, some Swedish and traces of Russian.
