I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.

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    Brazil. Fluent in Portuguese and English, though I understand a tiny little bit of Dutch. I can understand Spanish sometimes because of similarities between it and Portuguese.

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    Mexican here:

    Spanish & English - Fluent

    Japanese - Intermediate-advanced

    French - Still learning but it’s so similar to Spanish it feels like cheating 😅

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    From Mexico Magico, and I speak Spanish, English, enough French and enough Portuguese brasileiro to get by. And I am currently working on improving my Korean because I live in a city that has a huge community.

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      Same here! But I’m Mexican from Mexico.

      Last year I’ve gotten to reading full-length Japanese news articles with little to no help with the Kanjis.

      It’s funny how many Latinos are naturally drawn to Japanese. I always blame the loads of anime we got throughout the 90s.

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      I wish I knew how to write Korean nicely. Is definitely easier to speak for me than to write it lol.

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    Hungarian, so beyond that that i speak english (duh) swedish, though i mostly read books on it, not a lot of swedes around, and i am trying to pick up some chinese now

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      There’s a Hungarian hardcore band I like called Aws. It’s a really neat language. I don’t understand a word of it sadly. Maybe someday.

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        Ah, nice. Have not heard of them, funnily enough. But i am all for hardcore so there is that :D how did you learn about them?

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          They were on Eurovision representing Hungary. I listen to alot of non-English music. This is the song if you’re interested. I think their singer passed away unfortunately.

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            Thanks, I’ll check it out. I don’t really follow music recently all that much so i guess it explains it

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    I’m from The Netherlands and I speak Dutch, English, a bit of German and no French at all even though I had French in school for 13 years.

    But The Netherlands has 2 official national languages, Dutch and Friesian, although English officially isn’t a foreign language anymore due to the quality and quantity of English speakers and there are discussions to make English the third national language.

    I wish I knew more languages, but sadly I’m really bad at learning any. Some people learn languages so fast, I’m better at math and such. I wish I knew Russian, Chinese and Spanish because I’d love to travel to old USSR republics, China and other Asian countries and South America. Knowing the most spoken languages in the world would be amazing I imagine. And I wish I knew Norwegian because I love the language and the country so much. Plus, you can communicate in Denmark and Sweden too. But luckily now we have Google translate so I could communicate even though I don’t have shared languages with where I want to go.

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      although English officially isn’t a foreign language anymore due to the quality and quantity of English speakers and there are discussions to make English the third national language.

      Do you have a source for this? I’m Dutch native too, and have never heard of this.

      The majority of Dutch people speak English at a decent level, but there are no non-immigrant native English speakers.

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    I’m part Scottish, part English. I speak:

    English - idiomatically
    French - conversationally
    Italian - I just want to reply to people in French all the time
    German - I can ask where the station is
    Japanaese - I can say ‘I do not understand’

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    Norwegian.

    I’d say fluent in Norwegian, English and German. German because I lived there for a year and the missus is German.
    I can make myself understood in Spanish.
    Swedish and Danish come for free as they are so close to Norwegian. I don’t need to speak them as we understand eachother mostly.

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    The UK.

    I am fluent in English and good enough in Mandarin to get by.

    Earlier in life I was passable at French in France, but I have lost that now. It’s been overwritten by the Mandarin from having spent a few years in the PRC teaching English.