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Alternatively, in the languages I speak:

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie? (Deutsch/German)

¿Qué idiomas habla usted? (Español/Spanish)

Quelle langue parlez-vous? (Français/French)

EDIT: These sentences are now up to date.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Depends on who you ask. I'm American and went to the UK. I was looking to pick up my rental car, you know, so I could drive on the wrong side of the road and found a sign that read, "rental car collection." I had to ask a local who was doing the collecting, because I don't speak English. " If I was collecting the car, it's a pick up. If they were collecting the car it's a drop off. So....

I also butcher German and Spanish pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I speak English. Je ne parle qu'un peu le français.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fluent in English.

Español es mi primer idioma.

日本語は少しだけ話せます。漢字のお陰で、読むの事はまだ難しいと思ます。

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

English is the only language I'm even vaguely proficient in, really.

Le francais est le loin ma deuxieme langue la plus forte. Mais ce n'est toujours pas tres bon, et je dois passer beaucoup de temps pour ecrire dans francais, et generalement rechercher quelques mots ou expressions. Mais ma grammaire est assez bonne, je pense.

I also spent a few years learning Spanish, but almost none of it stuck. And a few years learning Korean while living in Korea. I learnt a few of the necessary words and phrases relating to restaurants and taxis, and some very rudimentary grammar. And being able to read the script is a neat party trick. And one year of actual Vietnamese education + a few more years of peripheral exposure to the language while I lived there. Even less of it stuck than the Spanish though.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Mon français n'est pas mauvais, und mein Deutsch ist ziemlich schlecht.

Je ne sais pas si mon allemand avait un sens.

Also English lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spanish as native, English as second language, German as third

and no, German and Spanish translations of your question are wrong:

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie?

¿Qué idiomas habla usted?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Native English speaker. I learned some French in school and enough Japanese to get through a judo match. I struggle to retain other languages. Everywhere I go everyone speaks English and it's hard to justify learning a new one even everyone in a 1000 mile radius speaks English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

straylian, and that's about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean. im not so good at english as a native speaker. near the end of college my friend and I traded transcripts and his comment was. you get pretty good grades. oh except in spanish. when I had classes that were straight up english classes I similarly did not do well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Saya bisa bicara Bahasa Indonesia sedikit

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hablo español de forma nativa. I can read, write and understand by ear English, but I refuse to speak it because the pronunciation rules of English are shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Or are they shite? You're right we're fucked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Native German, fluent English, full working proficiency in Norwegian, (understand Swedish and Danish as a direct consequence), somewhat proficient in Dutch and French, and my Chinese is enough to get by. Couldn't hold a longer conversation though.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Swedish and English.

I know a few phrases in Spannish as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I speak English, I studied Latin but have not kept up, and I know a tiny bit of Japanese and French.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

English Spanish Portuguese

I want to learn Russian and Chinese

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yo Greek (native), English and some German (B1 level). (Might learn Spanish or Portuguese too :) )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’ve mostly got English and Japanese. English is pretty hard. I’m just a turtle.

英語と日本語が話せる。日本語は簡単だ。亀だけです。

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only truly fluent in English.

Tetapi aku bisa bicara bahasa Indonesia. Ada komunitas bahasa indonesia dalam lemmy? Aku tidak bisa cari apa-apa.

J'ai etudié francais a l'université, mais maintenant j'ai oublié beaucoup.

I speak a little Chinese, but am fully illiterate in it.

انا بتهكي عربي شواي

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

According to this post I speak magenta.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I am a native Tigrigna speaker, fluent in English, conversational in Dutch and Tigre. I have learned Arabic and Chinese but I don't speak it very well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, speaking English fluently, also speak Spanish with some moderate success and Japanese with a bit less.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Spanish as my native language, English, intermediate Portuguese and currently learning French.

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