Only English, really. Enough French to slowly have some basic conversations, or read jlai.lu memes.
I have, for various amounts of time, also had formal lessons in German, Spanish, Korean, and Vietnamese, with varying amounts of how well I know each of them. (But all very low.)
Cantonese, Mandarin, and English (obviously).
And Spanish, if you count knowing a few phrases as “knowing” a language…
The words I know are: Hola? Como Estas? Muy Bien, E tu? Me llama Pizza. Uno Dos Tres Seis Cinco…
Yea thats about all I know… 🤷♂️
If I tried to speak Chinese (either Cantonese or Mandarin) in China and they didn’t know I grew up in the US, they would probably assume I have a learning disability (because that’s how much I suck at it)
Funny thing is, I could just randomly strike up a conversation with foreigners in China with my perfect English and they’d be like “Omg a Chinese person speaks perfect English?” 😅, but then they’d probably quickly realize that I grewup abroad. (I really wanna try that trick one day, I love to surprise people like that)
Fluently only English, but I can understand Hebrew well just can’t speak it
very well: Romanian, English, Spanish, German. More understanding than speaking: French, Portuquese, Italian. And I know some words(very minimal) in Hungarian. I wish I would be more fluent in French, since we go there from time to time, I wish I knew Greek, Danish, Hungarian, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese(I love Chinese food and often watch cooking videos althougb I don’t understand what they are saying).
English and French, Japanese, and I used to be able to speak German and Sesotho.
I’m working on Spanish now.
https://www.languagetransfer.org/ is the best language learning system I’ve ever come across.
Lady , I only speak two languages: English and bad English.
Dutch, German, English, and poorly Polish and French.
Fluent english and arabic.
Learning latin, esperanto and ukrainian (not good at them, but i can read cyrillic fluently)
As for scripts only, i can read hebrew and greek (not understand, i’m just interested in the scripts)
A few, but the only daily useful one besides English is Toki Pona (or Toki Ma, or Kokanu as it’s now called).
I just looked up Toki Pona, can I ask what you use the language for?
It’s a mode of interaction like any. There are many people who use it in their day to day lives, like any other tongue. Due to the reduced size, it’s often said to have a “therapeutic” effect, which is what catches many peoples’ attention. I go by it maybe 20% of the time (on average) and I use it as my teaching go-to in my groups (of note, when Toki Pona is in the equation, people fight less due to its nature).
I only speak two languages, English and bad English.
Luxembourgish, German, French, English, moderate amounts of Dutch and a bit of Italian.
English, French - and just enough Klingon to offend someone.
Hab SoSlI’ Quch!
English, Spanish, and Latin, with a few pleasantries in German, French, Italian, Japanese, Lakota, and Dutch.
Well, okay: in Dutch it’s only cursing.
English, some Spanish, can read some French, and can read Middle English
Fluently, only English.
To enough range to ask for a hospital, Spanish and ASL.
For enough to curse a little, add in french.
I know a handful of martial arts related words in Japanese, though I never use them nowadays.
Past that, we’re talking either jargon or a handful of words picked up at random.
Now, I’m beastly with medical terminology, which has roots in Latin and Greek, so it sometimes seems like I speak a little of those, but it falls apart fast.
If you want to consider math a language (and I do in the colloquial sense), I’m not quite fluent, but I can get by.
I genuinely suck at learning languages. Vocabulary, I do fine with. It’s crossing the barrier into expressing ideas with a language as a whole that’s failboat.
What’s kinda funny to me is that I can, in Spanish, use multiple accents. I naturally fall into the Castilian patterns I learned in high school, tinged by my own southern accent. But, I can switch to that Castilian without my accent with a little effort. I curse in a Mexico City accent because I learned that from a girlfriend that grew up there.
But I’ve tried to pick up Gaelic, since I have some family that speak it, and couldn’t get past a handful of words before I could tell it was going to end up the same as Spanish for me.
Tried going deeper into Japanese, but didn’t have the time to even get as far as I did with Spanish.
I did pick up extra Latin, to the point I can read it okay, but I can’t speak it for shit.
ASL, I was super disappointed how bad I was at it. I took a class on a lark for medical ASL, and just loved how it works. Then I took two semesters of it and discovered that my dawning arthritis made practicing hard, and quit so I could focus on other classes that I could develop skill in. But I still love Sign. The people that are fluent in it, and compose poetry with it are just next level awesome. I just can’t follow them lol.
