I speak English, I’m learning my heritage language Norwegian.
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english, hungarian, some dutch. if I’m pressed, i also know a little german.
Bojler eladó!
Native Spanish, very good Catalan, good English and some (not enough to speak them) Portuguese, Italian and French.
Bangla mainly and sometimes English but pretty less in daily life (I do understand more languages but I just don’t speak them)
Native Norwegian, fluent in English, can struggle through childrens’ comic books in German and sort of get by in Egyptian Arabic (or at least I could back in the day, but it’s been a while).
En annen nordmann!!!
jada, det er noen av oss her :)
I natively speak English. I used to be somewhat competent for my age in French because as a child I was in French classes, I gave those up at some point due to a lack of interest. I’ve attempted to learn Mandarin, Korean, and German without much commitment. Now I’m learning Spanish which is coming along, but I lack confidence in it.
I suppose I also know Newfinese if that counts.
Spanish native. I got bored with English so I moved on to learning Català 🤣
Sóc un home simple: veig català, dono un upvote.
I only speak english and bad english
Fluently? Hungarian, English, German, Romanian, and French, in that order.
Hát itt mindenki magyar?
még az is, aki nem
amúgy meg bojler eladó
Flemisch.
Native 'merican and immigrant Mexican
Native: Spanish Fluent: Portuguese, English I can understand almost everything and can sort of speak it very badly: Italian, Catalan I know very basic things and could probably have survival level communication (although I would have to think hard since I haven’t used either in years): Russian, German Know how to say random phrases, generally “Excuse me, I don’t speak <language>, do you speak English?”: Finnish, French, Dutch.
Currently I’m focusing on learning Catalan.
A bit of English and some Japanese…
Finnish, English and technically some Swedish. Technically because I refuse to talk it
Why?
Is a mandatory subject in school here. They can make me sit in class but not use it type of situation
But why refuse to use it?
I felt I was treated poorly and don’t want the system to have the benefit of me speaking it.
Could you expand on that? As a foreigner I don’t understand why refusing to speak a language would prevent “the system” from benefiting of it.
And could you also explain what you consider poor treatment? In my country we have this image of Finland as a super advanced, super ideologically liberal, happy country
I’ll try, keep in mind that this is my personal view and likely only partially represents society at large.
Background: Finland has a Swedish speaking minority, roughly 8 % of the population. Teaching the whole population both languages has a stated (no source) aim of uniting the country and securing the minority governmental services in their native language. Additionally Swedish is/was seen as opening deeper nordic cooperation. While there are some cultural differences between the Swedish speaking minority and the Finnish speaking majority these, in my view, seem insignificant and the vast majority speaks fluent Finnish.
In practice due to small number of hours and the general unwillingness of the majority to learn Swedish these goals are poorly achieved. Lack of motivation stems from both deep rooted political believes ( in practice false ones) and from the fact that Swedish is not needed as well as a backlash against the mandatory teaching of it. In all encounters I have ever had Finnish has been used as it is spoken well by both parties.
So 15 year old me thought that it was a waste of my precious time and I decided to never speak it.
After my school years technological developments have made it even more a waste of time. I should note that politically I would support removing the mandatory teaching and language requirements of civil servants if it wasn’t supported by far tight autocratic forces.
I have heard stories of language based discrimination, though only few. On average (not sure about median) the minority lives longer and is wealthier, though not by a large margin
All of the above must be seen against the backdrop of me being a part of the majority and well off even within it. So in a position were it is quite easy to be liberal but also not to see problems.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
I want to say spanish, german and english, but the honest answer is none
