• NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
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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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      anglijskij i russkij

      I love the fact that I can understand this fine without knowing Russian.

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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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    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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    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.

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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    French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (a bit less than fluent). Started learning Japanese at one point and quit. Can still speak and understand some, but I’ve given up on learning kanjis. Understand a’d speak some Haitian creole (also less than fluent).