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What languages do you know?

As the title says, what's your native language and what other languages do you know? Also, what languages do you want to learn in the future?

English is my native language and sadly, that's the only language I know. I also know an extremely little amount of Spanish, i.e. a few words and small phrases, nothing else. In the future, I would really want to learn Spanish, but I would also love to learn German and Italian.

Edit: I had to reword somethings because I apparently forgot that reading and writing a language is also a thing.
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Portuguese only, my native language. I can't speak nor understand other languages at all.

I have interest in learning later English, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
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Spanish and, to a certain degree, English.
I might learn Portuguese if only because of the apparent similitudes lol
Originally posted by Vitor Vilela
Portuguese only, my native language. I can't speak nor understand other languages at all.


If you can only speak Portuguese and you can't understand anything else whatsoever, then how did you manage to type this post in English?
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Vitor Vilela improve of posts with the Google Translator! #tb{^V^}
Understand as in speaking and listening. Because there's no point you can read/write something but can't speak/listen at all.
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Only Chinese, my native language.

I can write English that other people could understand, but I can't speak them properly.

My English pronunciation is too sucks.
Yo hablo pequeno espanol y ingles.

I know the n's need accents but I can't be bothered to remember the num pad codes
they're called tildes lmao
Oh also I remembered that I tried to learn russian
never again, at least not soon
Only Spanish. I can only read and write in English, but I suck at listening and even more at speaking it.

And my Spanish is somewhat broken I think :V
Portuguese and English, without much real conversation practice on the latter (as I said in the other thread, I mostly talk to myself in English lol)

I'm super interested in German and I actually started self-teaching at some point, but I didn't get far at all. Should pick it up again sometime.

I was also really hyped about Spanish while I had my first teacher, but a second shitty teacher literally ruined it all for me, and I've grown to find any shape of a Spanish class annoying. Super unfortunate, since deep down I still think learning it would be cool (and possibly useful) :(

I had no interest originally, but Horikawa - an YouTuber I keep up with - is a professional Japanese teacher and very recently she started uploading lessons. I'm very casually following them, but who knows how far that will go?
It's easily the best thing I've done
So why the empty numb?
Just English. I took a few Spanish classes years ago, so I know a little Spanish, enough to play the Spanish version of Proyecto Latino at least.

I tried to learn Welsh a few years ago, ond mae ddrwg gen i, alla i ddim siarad Cymraeg yn dda.


Besides Portuguese, which is obviously my native language, I can speak English fluently to a certain degree.
I know a bit of Spanish and am interested in taking more lessons to deepen my knowledge, considering my dad was born in Uruguay and there are relatives of mine who live there.

I find German and Japanese interesting languages, and who knows I might take my time to start learning them or watching video lessons in the future.
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Originally posted by Katerpie
Besides Portuguese, which is obviously my native language, I can speak English fluently to a certain degree.
I know a bit of Spanish and am interested in taking more lessons to deepen my knowledge, considering my dad was born in Uruguay and there are relatives of mine who live there.

I find German and Japanese interesting languages, and who knows I might take my time to start learning them or watching video lessons in the future.


So you're planning on knowing 5 languages? That's really cool. I wish you the best of luck. :3
if i were to learn another language it would be one with a similar grammatical structure so i don't have to relearn the basics of how a sentence is structured

also latin and its changing words based on how they're used can go jump off a bridge
Oh man, languages! They're better than crack. They're certainly good craic. They study of them may have made me slightly cracked. I'm currently pursuing a Master's degree in Scandinavian languages, with the sinister plan that I will eventually be able to trick people into letting me study them for money. I'm so Devious, the Bishop's going to break into my non-existent office any day now.

Fluency is a tricky concept to define, let alone measure As such, I tend to be wishy-washy whenever asked this question, which is problematic, as it's typically the first thing people ask me when they learn I study languages. When I press them for a definition, they tend to give a super-broad one, leading me to once again hem and haw like a donkey with a sewing machine.

That said, the languages I feel confident having a conversation about pretty much anything pretty much always:

- English
- German
- Danish


Languages I can reasonably have a conversation in a good range of subjects especially after refreshing myself for a moment, and have gotten by with speaking exclusively in their respective countries:

- Swedish (can sometimes transform into Danish in a funny accent)
- French (steadily losing my active abilities from lack of use, though I read it often enough)

Dutch
I only started about six months ago, but I've made super-rapid progress, since it's so similar to the languages I already know well. Still, I've yet to try speaking it much in the field, so to speak, just in the occasional conversation group here in Germany, so I hesitate to elevate it to the second category just yet.

Norwegian is an odd case. I haven't actively studied it very much at all, but I've had quite a number of classes where Norwegian was the language of instruction, so I can understand it reasonably well (rather a bit better than Swedish, in fact). However, it was always expected in those classes that I answer in Danish, and that's what I did. And whereas I had no problem speaking Swedish in Sweden, I always used Danish in Norway (which unlike the Swedes, the Norwegians had no problem understanding). Generally I fear that if I were to try to speak Norwegian, it would sound more like a grotesque parody, just Danish with a milder Swedish accent, and people would just assume I was making fun of them.

Faroese is my current goal and my darling, because I'm clearly a crazy person. I hope to write my Master's thesis on it, too. But I've still got a loooong way to go before I get anywhere near fluency on that one. But my, that would be such a lovely things. Blíð er summarnátt á Føroyalandi...
I have no problems in speaking German (duh) and English and my French and Polish aren't that bad too.
English is my native and is the only one I can speak. I'm planning on taking some classes in the future to learn French so maybe in a few years I'll be able to speak that to a certain degree.
German and Hungarian are my native languages; though in the case of Hungarian, I can only speak conversationally - reading let alone writing is out of the question.
English I feel I am fluent enough in to be able to claim so. Japanese is far from perfect but I feel confident enough to say that I can converse with people easily and reading/writing is also no problem.
There are other languages I'm interested in as well like Russian and Chinese, but I don't really have the time to learn anything else at the moment. Maybe some time in the future.
Originally posted by Pseudogon
If you can only speak Portuguese and you can't understand anything else whatsoever, then how did you manage to type this post in English?

You made a thread asking about what people can speak fluently yet you don't even understand the word fluently?

As for what I'm fluent in, my country has two official languages: a native language and English.