I speak English, I’m learning my heritage language Norwegian.

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    Native Dutch, fluent English, fluent German and French, I can carry a conversation in Spanish and Italian, and some baby steps in Japanese.

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      That’s a curated place for people who enjoy language learning. This community offers a broader and more diverse sample

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    Native English speak (Australian) and I didn’t get full marks when I did my Canadian permit residency English test. That’s all I speak and apparently not well.

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      OnO

      i found a german (federal republik of germany) text once that quoted a german text published in switzerland marking a word that was written with double-s instead of s-z-ligature (ß) with “[sic!]” as if the orthography of their neighbours was a mistake.

      (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥`)

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    I can read, write and speak 3 languages.

    English.

    हिन्दी - Hindi.

    ਪੰਜਾਬੀ - Punjabi.

    I know a bit of Sanskrit, but cannot actually converse in it.

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    Native Norwegian, fluent English, proficient Danish and Swedish, intermediate German, basic mandarin.

    Oh, and I know a lot of Spanish curse words. Probably enough to start a fight.

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    Norwegian, Danish and English.

    You could add Swedish, but only because of being Norwegian, i can understand Swedish. I speak Danish because i live in Denmark.

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    Native: German

    Well: English, French

    A little: Spanish, Esperanto, Latin

    Able to understand partially: Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian

    A couple of phrases: Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese

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    Just two, don’t wanna say which for privacy reasons.

    I do want learn Dutch though. I think it sounds whimsical, and I’d love to meet a Dutch woman that can beat my ass (i heard they’re headstrong and dont take any shit).

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    Native English

    A tiny bit of French. My public school French education was a bit of a mess, lots of long-term substitutes and then substitutes for those substitutes, so none of it really stuck. If someone talks slowly I can usually catch the gist of what they’re saying, but probably wouldn’t be able to string the words together to respond.

    And I’ve gotten myself to be somewhat passable at Esperanto using Duolingo.

    I may make another run at learning French at some point.

    Wouldn’t mind learning Polish, Italian, Gaelic, and/or Albanian, since that’s where my ancestors came from. Never been particularly great at language-learning though so that’s a huge stretch.

    Also always thought it would be cool to learn Unami (the language spoken by the Lenape people who originally lived in the area I do)

    And I’ve spent enough time in tiki bars that I occasionally think about learning Hawaiian or some other Polynesian language