I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.
Mexican here:
Spanish & English - Fluent
Japanese - Intermediate-advanced
French - Still learning but it’s so similar to Spanish it feels like cheating 😅
United States and I speak English and a little Spanish but I wish I knew more Spanish.
Mexican American. I speak English, Spanish and some Japanese.
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.
US. I speak ok Mandarin, poor Spanish and bad Portuguese. And I guess English. Also I can’t read Chinese reliably, so I am also illiterate.
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’I can say “I do not speak French” in six languages!
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.
Lithuanian.
I speak Lithuanian, English, some Swedish and traces of Russian.
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.
From Germany and know German and English. I can read Dutch and understand snippets but speaking it is beyond me.
American, I speak English, Thai, and Korean.
I wish I knew how to write Korean nicely. Is definitely easier to speak for me than to write it lol.
Depends what you mean.
By country of birth: I’m from PRC
As in “Where are you posting from?”: USA
I speak Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and the the basic words of Spanish such as: ¡Hola!, Uno, Dos, Tres, Bruenos Dias, Muy Bien, ¿e tu?, Me habla pizza (Thanks, Spanish class. Still can’t get the Spanish alphabet song out of my head lol 😅). And I can read like English (obviously), most basic Chinese characters, I think I know the top 100 of them, I’m more confident in identifying the characters if its in simplified. And techically, I can read the Kanji parts of Japanese (since they are basically Chinese). I hear some Japanese and Koreans words and can make out some of the words because they are so close to Cantonese. (I think Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese, decended from a common language). I could only write in English, after 10+ years of never using Chinese, I can’t write shit beside like few basic words and my name in Chinese.
(I think Cantonese, Korean, and Japanese, decended from a common language)
Idk about Korean but I do know that Japanese loaned tons of words from Chinese when they imported Kanji but they’re otherwise unrelated afaik.
From Croatia, I’m multilingual!
English
Croatian
Serbian
Bosnian
Serbo-croatian
Montenegrin
Probably missing some.
Slovenian? Or don’t I dare ask that?
Slovenian is different, it is similar and could understand something but don’t know it.
Polish living in Poland, I know English, I don’t speak it much though, currently learning Japanese
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
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.
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?
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.
Thanks, I’ll check it out. I don’t really follow music recently all that much so i guess it explains it
From the UK originally, which is complicated enough. To foreigners I tend to say “England”, which (a) is true and (b) everyone understands. But I consider myself British, not English, and certain not a “UK person” (ugh).
I speak French near-natively from having lived there for a big chunk of my life. Spanish: intermediate, because it’s like French. German: got an A at GCSE decades ago, so not very good. Tried learning Russian a few years ago and, wow, that was hard. I cannot speak Russian. But being able to decipher the Cyrillic script is definitely a cool party trick.
I usually refer to England as Great Brittan? Is that generally preferred? Are there many Spanish speakers in Great Brittan?
I usually refer to England as Great Brittan? Is that generally preferred?
No, because it’s wrong!
- Great Britain = England + Scotland + Wales
- UK = Great Britain + Northern Ireland
- British = citizen of (careful!) UK
You’re welcome.
Are there many Spanish speakers in Great Brittan?
Far fewer than there are English speakers.
