I speak English, I studied Latin but have not kept up, and I know a tiny bit of Japanese and French.
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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.
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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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.
How did you learn so many languages?
I move around a lot and always pick up the local language.
Oh I forgot to mention Luxembourgish as well, used to be pretty fluent, but didn't have much of a chance to practice in the last 15 years or so.
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.
Native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, speaking English fluently, also speak Spanish with some moderate success and Japanese with a bit less.
Português brasileiro fluente/nativo.
Read/Write fluent English, a bit broken speech.
Ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch lesen/verstehen. Es war meine erste Sprache, aber ich habe das meiste davon vergessen, als ich Portugiesisch lernte.