What Language(S) Do You Speak?
Back to Community discussions#1 Sir-Charlie
Title says it all. What language do you speak?
Now, I speak English as my main and native. However, depending on who you'd ask they'd say that I speak 2 languages. English and English Creole, which is a modified variation of English which is more or less similar but has aspects of other languages thrown in. I happen to fall into the camp of those who don't really consider it a second language, so I only speak the one English.
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#2 thespyde
English only for me. I don't have the knack of learning languages, sadly.
#3 Jonathan Archived
Do you also speak german?
Cause your location and the blog and stuff?
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English only for me. I don't have the knack of learning languages, sadly.
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#4 rudolf
wondering the same though.
as for me, I am native german speaker. I can speak english, I learned english through playing audio games and a liddle bit also from the shool. my grandma and my grandpa are from poland and native polish speakers, but I can only a feew words on polish so I wouldn't count that.
#5 ArcticMoon
Most of you already know it all about me, but.
My mother tongue is hungarian, i speak english and officially I have a B2 but it has decreased these last years, I admit.
I was learning german for 4 years and officially I have a B1 of it but I usually never tell it to anyone, because unfortunately I've forgot most of it.
I speak russian around C1, but officially I have a B2 of it as well. I also speak a little bit of polish, but other than basic communication I can't do more advanced things. I understand more of it than speak anyway.
"As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I'm sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation."
#6 thespyde
I'm working to learn German but not having much luck.
#7 Natalia2000
arcticmoon, if you wanted to practice exercise,I am eager.
i am native speaker Polish, and I can speak English, but it is much easier for me to communicate by writing.
#8 blindTechProductions
I'm a native spanish speaker. Learned english as a child here in america.
#9 Snajper22
I speak polish, that's my native language and also english as my second language, which I have really learnt when I moved over to the UK.
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#10 khalil2009
I speak english and very, very, little spanish
#11 neptune
I speak English 99% of the time but I'm learning german. But I kind of suck at it so.
#12 Jonathan Archived
lol are you seriously learning german or what? like, at school or with an app or...
#13 marchoffmann
Lol I've just read this now. I didn't know that, interesting.
-- (rudolf):
wondering the same though.
as for me, I am native german speaker. I can speak english, I learned english through playing audio games and a liddle bit also from the shool. my grandma and my grandpa are from poland and native polish speakers, but I can only a feew words on polish so I wouldn't count that.
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#14 marchoffmann
Also about me, most of you know it by now. I'm a native german, who had well, very sucky english in end of 2020 /beginning of 2021, just enough to get through what I wanted to say. This improved over time, obviously, so here I'm now. Better than in 2022 for sure, but then it didn't develop as much as it's quite perfect the way it is. Though I do have issues with many professional words, especially in long overly formal texts, so there is, more than certainly room for improvement. Otherwise it's my favorite language, not really proud of speaking german, it's overrated. Though here in norway everyone will say it's harsh and fake it horibly after, so that's kinda pissing me off xd. And yes. The last 2 years I have been forsed to learn norwegian :p, not really fond of it honestly, but I can speak quite much of it by now at least.
#15 pollyanna
i am a vietnamese native speaker. besides, i can speak english and japanese. i plan to learn polish at the university. but now, with help of some friends, i can say i know a little polish,but not substential though.
#16 Natalia2000
Polianna, really really good luck.
#17 djsenter
Natively I speak Polish, very fluent English on both informal and formal levels. Though if I had to be honest, I still catch myself making grammatical mistakes and speaking is more difficult than writing for me when formulating long, articulate sentences, then again this problem appears in any language I'd speak, so maybe it's just me :D
I basically know all kinds of words and sentences in a range of languages, but it would be a lie to say that I'm fluent in any of them. I have a lot of love for Japanese, I listen to Japanese pop daily for 7 years now, so obviously I have picked up a lot of words and based on these words, I can sometimes formulate a sentence which could at least be understood by a Japanese speaker. I think I could have some basic communication in very broken Spanish, I seem to understand it much more than say anything, but I can make a strong r sound, so I think that it is a bit of an advantage, plus I kind of already got used to j being h and vice versa lol.
I know some sentences in French, Russian, Vietnamese, Thai and Chinese, but that probably wouldn't even be enough to have a basic, introductory conversation.
I intend to improve my Spanish, Japanese and perhaps other Asian languages too, although they scare me, because they seem so difficult to grasp, somehow with Japanese I have an easier time, due to this kind of familiarity with the language for reasons mentioned above and some others as well.
#18 techboy
English only for me, but I learned a little russian, but it was a little hard plus duolingo doesn't work. I have middle school level french, but i have only greetings, and also middle school spanish, with greetings, numbers and the time.
#19 monstricek
My native language is Russian, and if someone wants to practice it, I would be happy to help because I studied to become a teacher of Russian as a foreign language in university. Additionally, I speak Polish and Belarusian well, struggle with Ukrainian, and understand Czech and Slovak without any problems. My English is poor, but I think it's solely due to my laziness and lack of motivation.
#20 ziyadmohammed
i speak arabic and english but my grammer skills is not good i understand more than i speak