Spanish, Catalan and English
I learnt English in school but mostly on the internet
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If Spanish and Catalan are the same then Spanish and Portuguese are the same
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"separate region" with "strong distinctions" and "differences in culture/language from the rest of Spain". man wdym, you just described every region in Spain, they all got their similarities and own distinctive characteristics
and wtf does it have to do with #12, they were talking purely about language differences
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Politics, he probably wants to leave the UK, I wouldn't blame him.
No lol, Spanish speakers can't understand Catalan
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Hmm many of us do (or at least i do). Ofc not every single word, but we get most of it. Same with Portuguese.
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You surely can understand written Catalan like I can understand written Portuguese but could you understand a Catalan person speaking quickly or Speak Catalan yourself? I aren't think that
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You talked about understanding in #20, not speaking myself. Written, 100%. Spoken fast? Ofc not, but neither andaluz and its spanish. Spoken normally? Most of it. Not trying to undervalue catalan or Portuguese anyways.
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Not saying you're undervaluing it but your capacity to understand it will depend a lot on the accent and speed, people who come here from other parts of Spain have issues understanding Catalan
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Again, obviously. And again, i rarely understand people from Cadiz or granada when they have a closed accent and speak fast.
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I'm saying that with "normal speed" you may actually mean slow speed so you would have issues in everyday life
And what I say could be obvious to you but this is a public forum!!
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Would you consider something like "scottish english" a different language than english or not? I don't really have issue if thats your opinion, but in my understanding its called accent, not a different language.
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Scottish English is English, Catalan and Portuguese aren't Spanish
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Scots imo constitutes a separate language. I've listened to a bit of it, and Its only kind of understandable to a native english speaker. I can only understand scots around half of the time because of separate vocabulary
E: sorry didnt realize this comment was 2 months old lol
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xd it's ok
I can understand Scots pretty much 80-90% (even more so when it's written), but maybe that's because I've been more exposed to an accent/dialect much closer to it than I assume you have as an American. I understand it less than other relatively extreme accents like a really strong Yorkshire, Newcastle, or deep south USA accent, but still enough for me to confidently call it a dialect rather than it's own language
For some comparsion Sami is language not a finnish accent
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That is true. And average finnish person has no chance of understanding a conversation in Sami.
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Point was more about that could be hard to understand for someone speaking the same language.
But does not matter anyway, because I don't know anything.
But Scots is recognized as a language by the EU and our Government
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Scottish English and Scots are different things
You should learn the differences between language, dialect and accent. You're embarrassing yourself there bud
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I takes more than me being right to embarass myself.
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Ignorance is bliss
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That it truly is.
It takes a toll to be the only one right time and time again but at this point I'm used to it.
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I used. It gave no definite answer.
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You two, brother. Glod bless you and your family.
+1 i lived in Barcelona for 5 years and it's really different. Catalan is more a mix of French and Italian than it is Spanish.
all 3 same langauge
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true and italian is same as well))
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English is just simplified swedish.
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wrong, i speak spanish but cant understand catalan...catalan is more portuguese than spanish, or a mix of both, but still a language
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no it itsnt
Bruh if you can understand what they're saying it's the same language
Lol wtf I know Spanish and can't speak at all Catalan.
It is similar and you can get couple of words but not same at all
Portuguese, gallego, catalan, italian etc are all dialects of the goat language (spanish)
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all originally from the goatier language (latin)
bro? Portuguese, gallego, catalan, italian and spanish all originated from latin actually...
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Lmao pure lies. Latin is another dialect derived from Spanish.
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That's because Catalan people can speak Spanish not because you can actually speak Catalan
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Argentinian dialect changes accent and a few words, Catalan has a different origin
You got no idea what you saying, your friends are speaking Spanish with eachother and not Catalan, Catalan is very different from Spanish and seems like a mix between Spanish, Portuguese and Latin with some other influences in the mix.
Even most Spanish people cannot keep a conversation in Catalan, you might be able to catch some words but other than that you won't understand a single thing:
youtube.com/watch?v=sF0Et6m1nEM
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Calm down buddy.
As i said 'I don't know what to to think now'. I've got the wrong idea all this time, and it's good to know that's is indeed different.
I've been dealing with spanish people for 8 years and my spanish is as good as my portuguese. And i always thought that it was them memeeing between themselves when they were talking about that.
More a mix of Spanish, Italian and French than Portuguese tho
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True that's a better description
When I say a mix of portuguese is because gramatically it's written exactly with the same rules as the Portuguese language besides the prononciation of the words, which is exactly pronnounced like portuguese. I don't struggle reading catalan out loud to my friends as I read it naturally.
That's why I referred it as a mix between spanish, portuguese, Latin (french, italian, spanish, portuguese, latin itself) with some other influences :)
Agree Catalan and Spanish is not so alike. But he is from Portugal what does he know
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No disrespect taking. Im not so very good at spanish cause im from sweden who moved to spain. So you are right.
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Well i know alot. been is school in catalan. Not living there know. And ive been to portugal many times. Im not the nice guy. :)
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Bro we are all literally telling you that you are wrong. And we all speak Spanish some are Spanish some lived there I lived in BCN and I can tell you with 100% certainty that this 2 language are not fucking same they are 2 different language that sound similar same as how Italian Spanish sound familiar it's same with it. But with that being said with fluent Spanish it's easier to understand Italian then Catalan actually.
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VISCA BARCA !!!!!!!!
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? im a spanish speaker and i cant understand catalan
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Ain’t Catalan that one chess opening?
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No idea
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Haha you dont read everything as its written, dont lie
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No.
you read CS as CH as in “chicken” for example
you read SZ as S as in “summer”
but read lone S as SH as in “show”
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I said you dont read everything as its written. And thats a fact. No idea what you talking bout
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or you dont understand that hungarian is not read as its written bozo
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same with estonian and other finno-ugric languages, we were taught that everything is pronounced as it is written, that guy is just talking out of his ass
The other guy is right, dipshit.
pretty easy for you guys to learn estonian and for us to learn hungarian tho
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Same, games,movies/YT >>>>>>>> School or spacial course(paid course).
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Polish native
English fluent at school
Spanish between intermediate and fluent, learned at school and on my own
Chinese intermediate, learned with a teacher
Portuguese beginner - intermediate, learned on my own
Hebrew just basics, learned with a teacher
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no ReaZy dont fuck my mom :(
shalom mashlomcha?
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hakol beseder, ve ata? ma kore?
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ehyeh tov, toda
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ata jachol ledaber ivrit? lama?
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not quite sure what jachol means, but if you're asking why i speak hebrew and english
it's because I am a Jew and I know a lot of basic prayers and dialogues
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no way, daily o plano thread isn't brazilian, wtf?
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sim kkkkkkk
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Viel Erfolg, mein Freund!
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did you win
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congratz!
Congrats!
Expected
Flag and flair
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Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, the language is similar like portuguese and spanish or very different?
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Good to know, NIP with Device n Es3tag probably didnt have much trouble with comms
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Yeah, if I didn't know device was danish I would have thought he's from Sweden, but es3tag's Swedish isn't as good.
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its easy to adapt
Norwegian, swedish and danish are similar langauges yes. Norwegian and swedish could almost lowkey be a different dialect.
Us Danes think that Norwegian is the most similar. But Swedish is a bit off compared to Danish.
My mom always told me that Danes think Norwegian is easier, and Norwegians think Swedish is the most similar and Swedish think Danish is the most similar. But if that's right for Swedes and Norwegians, idk.
Finland is not really like any of the languages. It would say it's the same as German and Dutch or German and Czech.
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hey we have similar languages with finland
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Oh. Sorry. I never knew that.
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np, we are small. We can understand eachother 50%
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I can understand like 50% of what you guys say
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I always remember parkimismaja because I found it very funny. In finnish maja is like a little shed. Something you built in the forest as a kid with a few branches would be called maja. So parkimismaja doesnt sound very impressive xD
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haha lol, i can't think of anything like that in finnish, actually maybe puhu, cause it means blow in estonian
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to be fair all Germanic languages are just varieties of the same substrate. The dialects within Germany are so different already. Plattdeutsch is like Dutch German Danish for example while Bavarians build their sentences differently and have a completely different sound to their dialect. if every federal state would have kept their dialect as official language it would seem like a different country too
I mean we all have our own identity but still belong together
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I have a very weird question. Since you have chinese family. Do they have like some weird rule that they need to eat everything that is on their plate? Everytime i've had meetins and friends of friends or people in restaurants etc. Breakfast places. They literally NEVER leave any there, they always eat everything they order
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It is our culture, also because Chinese suffered too much in history so older generation don't like food wasting
In process of learning english
+Georgian obviously
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Yeah but HLTV forums gave me addiction and mental illness
worth it? idk
Finnish, english swedish on native level
Then I can understand 3 other languages
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In Finland it's still taught in school I think
English- books, video games, school etc usual stuff
Hindi- picked it up
Tamil- mother tongue
Telugu- picked it up (am not very comfortable in it)
Bengali- same as Telugu but can understand it well
Japanese- ig y'all know how i picked it up XD
German- in process of learning
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Noice man, I know
Hindi
English
Punjabi and Haryanvi (Learnt through Friends)
Telegu(my best friend is from Hyderabad, so he teaches me a bit and i teach him hindi)
French-Learnt in school(Not very fluent)
Sanksrit-(Learning since an year and loving to learn the oldest language in the world and keeping my culture alive, got curious to learn it after reading portions of Bhagvad Gita)
Kazakh native
Russian native
Elementary English learnt in school, then upgraded a bit while preparing to IELTS to Intermediate, then used to watch How I Met Your Mother and Friends in English with and without subtitles, and now I'm in the middle of Upper Intermediate and Advanced. Also watching contents in English on YouTube, Twitch, chilling in forums etc.
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pt, en, C
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Only German and English Fluently, but I can recognize some Danish, Russian, French and Dutch
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In Danish I can have super simple conversations like ordering food, asking for directions and stuff, but in the other languages it’s limited to understanding some of it and maybe saying my name and that I speak English
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I‘ve been to Denmark almost every summer since I can remember, and overtime I’ve picked up the basics by myself
Sadly it’s of little use to me though, because in addition to English, a lot of Danes also speak very decent German :/
But it’s a cool party trick lol
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only english fluently
spanish- learned in school for 5 years, at one point was decent but it's been a while
russian- just finished my 3rd year of studying it at university, I'm ok at it
american sign language- decent, grew up knowing deaf people and took a few classes on it
latin- took like 1 year of it a while back and got bored
hebrew- don't actually know the language but grew up jewish so I learned to read from the torah for bar mitzvah lol
so really english + 3 others. russian+spanish I'm pretty good at reading/writing but don't have personal friends that speak them so not great at understanding fast speech/speaking
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born in US and still live there. minoring in russian language at university. wanted to try a new language, russian seemed interesting and I have eastern european (Ukrainian) heritage so picked that. my school offers ukrainian but I figured I'd choose russian instead since more people speak it
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bro replying to a 6 month old comment
I know what you mean, but Russian as a language will still be spoken by millions no matter what happens. at the moment there are over 5x as many russian speakers (native and otherwise) as there are ukrainian speakers, would still consider it a far more useful language, generally speaking.
also, to be clear, I don't know ANY ukrainian, I'm only a 4th generation immigrant (great-grandparents came from kyiv)
Mandarin
Javanese
Sugondese
Turkish
American
English
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no Australian?
english urdu and i am learning punjabi from my drivers cursing
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:D
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your farmer?
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Two very different languages. I was born in a family, where everyone speak Russian. However, I started learning Kazakh when I was 4 years old, so I can’t say it was hard for me. I know that some ppl find it hard to learn Russian, if they spoke only Kazakh, like they make silly mistakes and have some sort of an “accent”. Same thing happens when ppl learn Kazakh. So, going back to your question - yes, Kazakh and Russian are different, but there are some words in Russian that can’t be translated, but I guess that works with almost every single language.
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Yo le noob,
One of my good friend is kazakh (he works part-time for the embassy on some propaganda shit lmao) and he did tell me that turkish was the easiest language to learn for him, and that he could even understand turks when he hadn't learnt turkish yet (which makes sense since the turkish ethnicity has its roots near the Caspian sea).
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Everyone is different, Kazakh is probably his first language, while I mainly speak Russian (when I’m in Kazakhstan, but as I live in the UK, I only speak English). Mb, that’s why it was easy for him, while it took a while for me to fully learn it? Ofc I could understand Turks before I started learning Turkish, coz languages are very similar, but they have some differences which were confusing to me. Now, I can go to Turkey and go full rap god with them
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No, I was born in Belgium in a Greek family. English is the first one I learned at school, then I learned a bit of Dutch at school too but I was allowed to stop after two years and I did (I regret it by now but I was 16).
I took 2 years of evening lessons in German 5 years ago, I learnt Walloon and Japanese by myself.
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Yo le noob,
Tf is Wallon apart from french with septante and nonante lmao??
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Walloon is a language on his own, it's not as close to French as people think. It's close from Picard.
But one of our legacy in French is that we use the verb "savoir"(to know) as the verb "pouvoir"(to can). Example in the kitchen: "Sais-tu me passer le sel?" (Can you give me the salt?). It's because Walloon use it that way.
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Most of us suck at Swedish too. I can understand it ok but can't really speakit tbh.
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Latvian - native
English - near-native, learned from games/cartoons, later in school, and various workplaces.
Russian - near-native, learned on the rough streets of Riga, picked up grammar at school.
German - intermediate, school.
+ 4-5 other languages at a very basic level (enough to get by), mostly related to the ones listed above.
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You don’t get to intermediate level in school
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"Hard" or "easy" are relative terms. Between speaking, listening/reading comprehension, and grammar, i would say it took about as much time/effort to get good at all of these aspects on average, as it was with English.
3 quite different languages, albeit all come from the Indo-European language tree, there is almost no shared vocabulary, or grammatical concepts outside of this common archaic root.
What about you? What's your flex? :)
Polish, english and learning jerman
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I always fakeflag cause danish kids want me to clean their toilets
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one of my russian professors said there are some similarities between modern hebrew and russian because the guy who helped revive it was russian, is that true?
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Expected from Russian Jew
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polish 10/10 - living there
english 9/10 - internet/school
russian 4-5/10 - internet
jerman 2/10 - school
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jermaN
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ukrainian,russian,english,and learning german
Polish (obv reasons) English (live in US) German (Learning) French (School)
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I did visit france, hated it there. I am already fluent I don't have anything more to learn. Buddy.
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Yo le noob,
Why was it so bad? Because of the people?
And "I don't have anything to learn anymore" is the biggest lie lmao, even french natives all have something to learn.
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For me, because I lost interest is why "I don't have anything to learn anymore"
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mb, couldn't edit unfortunately
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Jerman, english and spanish
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ok, before we continue.
You have to understad that slavic languages are similar ( NOT THE SAME ) So, people that speak Russian, ca understand Ukraiian, Belarus, and some other languages, NOT completely, but it will be enough to understand each other.
So, Russian, Latvian, English, I can understand a bit of Lithuanian ( very minor because of some similarities with Latvian)
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yap :)
Ukrainians understand russians, but russians cannot understand Ukrainians if they speak actual Ukrainian, not some russified semblance(aka surzhik)
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shrug, probably yes
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most likely yes :)
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But sometimes when we know too many languages, we sometimes mix the words. Today i was talking to someone at home and i knew the word in english but i didn't remember the word i wanted to use in portuguese and it was kinda dumb. Cuz you're too used to use it in english sentences that you forgot the exact same translation of the word and it gets mixed on the way.
But i'm happy for you tho :p
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Finnish
English because of watching anime
Swedish because our system still lives in 1700 century and thinks that swedish is so much superiour language to every other that everyone has to learn it
Russian alphabet, thats what one course of university left me with
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Dutch - fluent, grew up in NL
English - fluent, from tv, gaming and a tiny bit from school
German - speak it a bit, I can read it just fine and understand if people speak it to me, from school and lots of german music
A couple words of French but that's all
Fluent in 5
German, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish
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that's crazy that you are fluent in 5 different languages
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Living in other countries and moving a lot when you are young helped a lot
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99.9% that he's Ukrainian, so he was born in a bilingual family, which gave him a small advantage of becoming fluent in 2 languages :)
Enlgish and sorta German.
Learned both from School
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You should surprise even more. I am Russian haha and I have pretty ok english as I think
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Czech – native
English – C1/C2
French – B1/B2
I learned both of them in high school.
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Not really right now. But I like to go to the Alps in summer, so some basic German would be useful. I always feel really bad when I am in the shop buying some food and the shop assistant says something (have a nice day or something like that I guess) and I can't understand her, so I just smile a say goodbye :D
I know you can't know every language, but as a Czech, it would be useful to know some German so I can talk with Jermans :)
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Fluent only in RO and EN.
I'm currently learning German and Dutch, and understand the vocabulary and a very bit of spoken German but it's not enough. Learning both due to work opportunities. Did a bit of French in school but it hasn't stuck with me.
I was taught the Cyrillic alphabet so I can read in Russian and understand bits of vocabulary due to similarity with RO but in no way can speak it.
English: learned in middle school.
German: same. I studied two years in German, one year in Germany.
Looking to start French in the summer.
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Both C1 or over. I basically spend my entire online life in English and I read a lot of academic stuff in German. When it comes to speaking I need a bit of warming up, but generally my English is better in this regard.
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English 10/10
Spanish 5/10
I know swear words in like 20 different languages though :)
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+1
and i guess you can speak at least 3 languages, my fellow indonesian
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indeed, i can only speak 3, Indonesia, Javanese, and English, with a tiny bit of Sundanese and Palembang also, and yes it is enough to fill my peanut brain lol
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polish
english
basics of russian( i understand quite a lot but can't really speak it, actually helpful in cs xd)
primitive italian (sometimes i understand what someone is talking about)
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Russain - obvious
English - don't know properly, but I think I have at least b1
portuguese - native
english - idk how I learned it, I just know I speak it since I was a kid
spanish - internet, had to because I study in a spanish university
german - idk I just felt like learning a new language, so I studied on my own through the internet
swedish - same as german
I can also understand a bit of italian, dutch and french (my sister speaks french)
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respect
slovak - native
czech - almost the same as slovak, some words are different, a slovak has no problem to understand a czech and vice versa
english - learned at school and on internet
polish - I can understand what a Pole says, I just can't speak the language
german - learning at school, I speak the language vaguely
finnish, little bit english
Spanish native
English fluent, school but mostly the internet
French fluent, the streets taught me
German/Dutch conversational-intermediate level, picked them up again recently, lacked motivation to improve
Italian/Portuguese- I understand these and I can pretty much communicate through improvising lol, viceversa for both with spanish i guess too hahah
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Yeah for sure, i've always felt like italian is easier than portuguese though, dunno why
Thx, lived in belgium actually, so learnt french relatively easily
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Lithuanian, English, French and i bit of Russian
Lithuanian cus its my country
English Internet
French school
My parents know Russian
french
english
russian
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Only Albanian and English want to learn more eventually
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I’ve been learning spanish for a few years but it’s conversational at best
english spanish arabic
spanish, english, and a little bit of french, I can read russian cyrillic and know a few words. probably I can understand portuguese pretty well
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That's the good thing about spanish/portuguese. You can understand each other for the very basic stuff. But to keep a good conversation, you would need to learn a bit more of each other, i find myself talking in spanish with other people and some of portuguese collegues don't understand everything
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English and Urdu are my native languages, followed by Punjabi, which my mother tongue.
Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English, German. +Some Latin.
Norwegian is my native language. Swedish and Danish are so similar to Norwegian, so its not a problem to both understand and speak. English and German from school. Learnt some latin on duolingo lol.
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> Danish
> Easy to speak
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lmao
Takes some effort, but its not too hard
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a russian trying to tell scandinavians what language is easy lol, danish grammar is very easy for norwegians and vice versa, and obviously when the grammar is the same, you are gonna be using the same words. With scandinavia what i say is that it is as if a american was to understand a scottish person. Different pronounciation, but same words. Most scandinavians who dont speak all 3, likely havent talked in person to people from the countries more than once. This is why so many cs teams have cross scandinavian players who speak native languages.
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you're starting with an insult and trying to tell me things i already know.
I said about pronounciation, nothing about grammar, vocabulary and whatever you've mentioned. I speak norwegian and swedish at a pretty decent level btw.
what's so wrong with you?
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not an insult stating where you are from, dont know why you took it as such, but its obviously funny when someone who is not a native speaker tries to tell a native speaker about whats hard and whats not. I speak all 3 fluently, not just at a "decent level". You could be missing out on a lot of things, Pronounciation is not hard once you get used to it, and most of the time its danes speaking swedish/norwegian, and not the other way around.
20 languages
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Portuguese - Native
Japanese - Advanced, started learning by myself before coming to Japan
English - Intermediary/Advanced
French - Begginer
Italian - Begginer
Spanish - I know a little bit but i don't like it so i stopped learning it
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First, I'm brazilian and I wouldn't say that it was hard but definitely it was a long journey, i started learning japanese at the end of my 9th grade by myself and kept studying alone until i finished high school, so i applied to MEXT and was accept for attending the programming course. I'm here since the first week of April. If your dream is living in Japan I would recommend you to try MEXT because it's REALLY helpful in this journey and without it I wouldn't be here rn.
Edit: I want to clarify that i don't have any type of descendency of japanese though and i would totally do all of this again.
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thanks my friend, i put the advice there for other people that may want to live in here to read and know how to start
I used to live in japan it is nice country but thats it depends how good looking foreigner you are
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how do u speak
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albanian sign language
Dutch. just learning it since school.
want to learn Spanish. just like it
Swedish Norwegian English Bosnian Croatian Serbian (only speaking not that fucked up alphabet)
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wtf goat alphabet
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only war crime countries use that alphabet 2 wars in Europe last 20 years both same alphabet
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you know that ukrainian alphabet is cyrillic, right?
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why all people from Kyrgyzstan say it? At least everyone I've meat. Is it so popular?
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thank you for sharing this information
Pycckuŭ, English, Norsk, Svenska litt and just a little of polish. Gotta polish my polish, raise my level of swedish to my level of norwegian and start learning french or greek. Please help i want to learn every language in the world but my brain is not big enough.
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"here and there" = csgo mens?))))
English 100%
French 90% understand, 80% speaking. Studied at school and am going to study at university.
Swedish 70% understand 35% speaking. Have Swedish friends who help, little bit of Duolingo and watching Swedish Youtubers.
Spanish 80% understand, 40% speaking, Learned at school for 3 years.
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One native, two through TV+music and school, 1 through gymnasium(high school) and gf, one through family of friend + travel, one through evening classes and travel and one through living next to the country and interactions with people from there.
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Not a problem. I just thought you only wanted the number and how/where.
In order:
Danish
German
English
French
Norwegian
Spanish
Swedish
The last four on the list is not to a level where I would fx. write letters or have business conversations, plus also my Spanish and German is somewhat rusty from lack of use.
Also I could maybe say order a couple of beers in fx. Italian, however I don't think it qualifies to be on the list.
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I see.
I see a lot of danish/german people having german/danish as their option in their country as 2nd language.
Did u learn german in school? Or outside?
That's quite a big list. Would u be able to go on the streets and talk spanish/german with people for like 5min straight? Just curious
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Since Denmark is a small country it is the standard that everyone learns two foreign languages, those would generally be English and German/French. Plus a bit of Swedish and Norwegian is also pretty common I think.
I mostly learned German by watching German TV as a kid, so much so that when taught in school I did not really pick up the grammar rules as I just knew what was correct anyway. Plus I also used it on travels and in student jobs where tourists was part of the contacts.
I can definitely have a conversation in German, as mentioned I am a little rusty using German but I know it will come back quick if I use it. I won't have problems understanding what is spoken, but until a bit of warm up speaking will be a bit clumsy.
Spanish will be much harder as I never used it as much as German, so I would likely need like a dictionary for it to be much of a conversation.
I think knowing languages is great, it opens doors to so many experiences like for example music, movies and also when traveling it lets you interact with more people. Even if you just know a few phrases it shows you care enough to make an effort, that is a great ice breaker.
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Thx.
Interesting thread you created.
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Totally agree.
I picked up a few phrases in a lot of languages and everyone is always so happy if u show that u bothered learning something about them
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1 Turkish
0.5 English
english - just look at my flag
English - I can read English but speaking and writing correctly is difficult for me and listening to English is the same thing as not hearing anything... I just don't understand
Spanish - same thing as English
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you know english twice?
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portuguese* lol
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true also im lazy
Italian (duh)
English - Learned the basics by myself but I was a bit rough around the edges when I was 13 or so. So I got into an english school and sorta fell in love with it tbh. Nowadays I have the three main Cambridge Language Assessment certificates (FCE, CAE, CPE) and I also have the TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language).
Portuguese - I lived in Brazil when I was little
French, Dutch and Spanish - know very very little but can kinda read
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English and Afrikaans. English from parents and Afrikaans from parents and a bit from school.
Portuguese - Native
English - I never tried to learn it, i guess i just got it from games and the internet, at some point i started to understand everything
Spanish - Internet, it was easy to get into it because of portuguese
Japanese - I like japanese culture so i started learning it through the internet, i know how to speak but reading is a bit difficult
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Do brazilians watch hollywood movies dubbed or texted?
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imo watching movies in english is a good way to learn a languages like pronouncing of words correctly and how the sentences are "built"
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guess we gonna need to learn english now
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i thought portuguese lol x) because of rio major cast in pr
Finnish, swedish, English, USA, Australia, Englandss
Spanish -> Native
English -> 70%
Portuguese ->80% (because gaules)
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You wont learn 80% of portuguese only by watching him. The wording he's using is pretty much the same everytime. Atleast when there's cs:go streams and such.
Unless you're watching him when he does other stuff like 'just chatting' and playing games himself in general
Either way, you're spanish, it's 'easy' to understand some portuguese words.
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spanish and Portuguese is 60% similar
is more easy understand PT-BR than PT-PT
-London and Jermen fluent
-I started to learn a bit of russian on and off but didnt really have motivation to remember anything outside very basic term and phrases.
-started learning Italian for Work and doing pretty well since I already had a decent base in latin languages so I already can have very very basic conversations about Work rn.
-I understand a tiny bit of Mongolian and know basic prounounciation
- and then the obvius stuff like understanding Dutch or other Germanic languages a decent bit via Jerman
Czech, Slovak, American, British, Australian, English, New Zealandian, Canadian
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damn didn't know thanks for telling me!
German as i grew up in germany lulz
Ukrainian and Russian cuz my mother is Ukrainian
English school and every day in my job
Basic French from school
Swedish, English, German ( ish)
English is from school but my vocabulary and overall writing has improved by the internet. And German I just learn in school, I'm pretty bad though.
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Fluent: English, Spanish, Hindi (spoken)
Slovak and Czech native level - My family is from Slovakia, but my parents moved to Czech Rep. before I was born.
Fluent English - Learning it in school, also taking private lessons. Using the internet surely helped as well.
Basic German (I would say B1 level) - School and private lessons
I also picked up some basic Russian thanks to cs. I taught myself how to read cyrillic so I can figure out if some sneaky russians are flaming me in the chat and call them out.
I always love learning new phrases and words from teammates in csgo, people are always happy when you say some stupid shit in their language😎.
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portuguese, english, Spanish, dutch, italian, french, a litle bit of romanian and some phrases in polish.
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i live in netherlands this is why i speak dutch, the rest i learn by my self and also speaking with my collegues at work.
ukranian russian english also i can understand polish somehow
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no i didnt, polish just very similar to ukranian
Turkmen and Turkish: native
Finnish: native
Russian: a little from school but mostly from internet
English: basics from school but mostly from internet
Swedish: from school
Danish: friend taught me
Spanish: from school
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hold on you are half finnish half turkmen or what????
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No, a son of Turkmen immigrants, was fully educated in Finland all the way from kindergarten to uni
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ohhh
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No, only in english and the ones I'm native speaker
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Tf is pakistani ???
i speak american and also fluent english
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absolutely not, the britishan language is so useless
ill let my good friend tell you my thoughts on it: youtube.com/watch?v=Q8pNh6LqFh8
I love languages so yeah
Danish (usual)
Swedish/Norwegian (learned a little in school)
English (Online and school)
German (school)
Croatian (Was on holiday in Croatia for 2 months so just wanted the basic of it)
Spanish, Dutch and French (Taught myself - it's not good, but i can communicate)
I am currently learning myself Italian and Russian. I am also learning a few English accents (Bri'ish and Australian)
And when im done with that my plan is to learn myself Portuguese, Romanian, and some Asian languages.
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Well, Swedish is close to Danish, but my German is definitely not as good as my English.
I've spoken English since i was 4. My dad is English so.
Arabic, Hebrew and English
define "know"
I studied Spanish, Bangla, Hebrew, and Greek but i def not fluent in any of them.
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I think being able to hold a conversation and write with some grammatical cohesion is enough
Estonian, school + speaking irl
Finnish, online and watched some Finnish streamers
Russian, school + speaking irl
English, school + speaking irl
Japanese, Duolingo + anime (yes I'm a weeb your insults mean nothing to me)
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Well I'm fluent in Estonian, Russian and English. I don't think I can say that I'm fluent in Japanese because I only know the Katakana alphabet but I can understand/speak quite well. With Finnish it's a similar situation, I can understand/speak well but I think I still make too many grammatical errors when writing to call myself fluent
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nt syrian refugee
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i can't tell exactly if my english is fluent but i have the best english grades in my class.
My arabic is ok at best, we don't speak the usual arabic that you would see in arabic texts etc anyway as in north africa we use like a mixed arabic with french, idk how to call this exactly in english.
my french is fluent though.
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never talked with someone vocally for more than just 5 mins tbh but I think i can do it, my biggest problem is just stressing when talking in english even though i know what I should/have say etc but it just sometimes gets into my head lol.
99% of the time i talk in english vocally just for faceit games and i don't even play faceit that much lol.
Portuguese, English, Spanish (enough to understand and read), French (enough to read) and a bit of Chinese (just basic stuff, still learning).
Spanish and french can have many similarities with my native tongue (Latin derived languages) and as such I didn't have to really study them to reach my current level,
I taught myself english through the internet, programming languages, playing games, reading stuff and shit, I just incorporated it into my daily life and naturally developed my skills.
I'm learning Chinese through the internet as well, I wanted to learn a difficult language as a personal challenge.
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I also made a challange to myself, but I choosed russian, nice to see Im not the only one who did it.
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
London
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-> German (motherlanguage, speaking a german dialect most of the time tho)
-> English (school, but most of it thru video game tutorials & forums online)
-> Tourist italian (had it in school but our teacher was horrible and didn't teach us anything so I suck at it lmao)
I am able to understand some Dutch, Luxembourgish & a little bit of the Scandinavian languages here and there since they are all part of the germanic language family, but only bits and pieces.
I want to learn a 3rd language tho, was thinking about spanish but idk if I have the motivation and if it even makes sense. Like, u need to use the language almost daily to get a feel for it & there is not really a point to go out of my way to find spanish tutorials, forums or anything if I can just search up german or english ones.
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They list any language theyre remotely familiar with, most of it is bullshit
But it is common to speak at least 3 languages if youre from a smaller euro country
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3 fluently sounds about right on average, no? At least for countries with less than 5mio people or something
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i would say 2 lol
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3 fluently is a bit of a stretch. Yes, we finns study Swedish at school for like 3-6 years but after that not many people use it anywhere so you kinda tend to forget most of it. And some don't even learn it properly while they are at school. So most finns are really only fluent in 2 languages (Finnish and English). And I'd say that would be accurate for about 80% of the population (swedish finns are a different matter entirely).
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Well some languages have so much similarities that its almost given to be able to understand and speak to at least some level: Spanish-Portuguese, Swedish-Norwegian etc
Then there is subject of people especially middle to eastern europe having usually faimly ties to two+ countries, making it likely to have learn those languages.
Then there is subject of many european languages being structrually quite similar so its quite easy to learn other european languages for native speaker.
And lastly especially for many smaller countries its very beneficial to learn at least one extra language to improve your chances of employement, even inside your own country.
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Portuguese, English - fluent
Spanish, German - mediocre (b1 level)
C#, Cobol, HTML, CSS, Javascript
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Russian is my mother language.
English no comments, fluent.
Lithuanian, forgoring it ☠️ But can still understand it.
Norwegian, fluent since I live in Norway.
French, studying it RN and absolutely loving it, I can understand texts but I lack vocabulary.
Easily understanding most of the Slavic languages since I speak Russian 😎
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Arter french I would like to learn portugese
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Bruh
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/t..
Knowledge of English in EU.
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Yeah I'm definitely going to trust your feelings more than data lol
I already visited Portugal btw, but I didn't need to use english to communicate. Most people could talk Spanish or French.
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I live here, i know what i'm saying. I worked in hotel for 4 years.
I'm pretty sure i know what i'm talking about.
Also, you're comparing bread with meat. You're saying YOU communicated that way because you had people talking to you in spanish/french, both languages that you also know and are common in Portugal.
I asked you to communicate with French people here, which is completely different buddy.
Also, i don't need you to trust me, you do you. But think about it, why would i lie? What would i gain from it? Make sure you know facts before trusting any random sources. Because i can just google and get:
"According to data, only 20% of French people are fluent in English and only 40% are able to have a basic conversation. So, it's not a complete myth that French people aren't all that good at English. 13/03/2022"
Either way, it's not gonna change my day.
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As long as you're pretty sure you know what you're talking about...
It's not against you, I just won't trust a random dude's feelings; so I made some research!
Your data doesn't prove mine wrong, compared to other european countries such as Italy or Spain (in terms of quantities, i.e. my first answer)
Also, French aren't worse at English than them (ef.com/wwen/epi/, France is considered to be a country with "high proficiency" in English, while Italy and Spain only have "Moderate proficiency". I used this data because I think their methodology is interesting and was based on a lot of people ef.com/wwen/epi/about-epi/#proficiency-b..)
So it's just another cliché that some people like you like to spread for some reason (#868). I don't see people making these kind of "jokes" to other latin countries. How weird when we look at data?
Though I'll agree that in the case of Portugal, it seems you must be better english speakers than the French (#7 vs #31), but still less being able to speak it (20-29% vs French's 30-49%).
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Might be now.
My french is very basic and i don't know plenty of stuff to be able to help french people. So i always tried to do it in english/spanish/portuguese. Issue is that when i start talking in english they look at me with a weird face and some of them act like they don't understand just because i don't speak their language, they're visiting my country, they should be more than able to speak the universal language.
My english is not perfect but i can manage everywhere i go. Me saying i'm proud of him is nothing personal against french, i'm just happy that he made an effort compared to some other people i met in here.
I agree that most ppl that had that issue are above 30+. Doesn't happen that often with people from my age.
Don't take that as an attack, was pure experience i had while working there.
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I respect your experience and understand your opinion is based on something you lived and not something you imagine.
I guess you can acknowledge that this specific trait of being arrogant people not bothering learn another language is specifically attributed to the French, which is kind of obnoxious in a French POV that thinks it's wrong and spread just for the sake of French bashing, and thus understand my points/reactions.
Have a good one
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Norwegian, English, swedish, danish, german, but now only basic german cause I haven't spoken it for 10 years.
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Like a person living there? No, but pretty much no one who learn a language does that, some do sure but most people learning a second+ language will have an accent to some degree.
Mandarin (Including Chongqing Dialect)
English
Wanna learn Cantonese
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People who live in outside of region cannot understand Chongqing/Sichuan dialect speaker. We have some different pronounciation and tone
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Some of pronounciations are same, but we got differnet tone. Our dialect is not that complex compare with South East dialects. Modern Mandarin is also a dialect of one Nothern county. After the establish of PRC, parliament have voted for which dialect will be official Mandarin, Sichuan/Chongqing dialect and Cantonese lost at a slight advantage (2 or 3 votes difference). Official Mandarin today is similar with Beijing dialect. It is very complicated, lol
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I kinda see, interesting I didn't know that official mandarin is in fact a northern dialect!
This kinda happened in France during the 19th century where the central government forced every school to teach "classical" french (which itself comes from a dialect that was spoken around Paris).
I know some grandpas whose first language was not french so it isn't that ancient lol.
This is why I understand that PRC pushes some regions to learn official Mandarin, it is a bad for a future good I guess
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Our dialects are not completely different from each others, we share the same writting system even before the confirm of our official Mandarin(As I know)
Spanish: fluent
Guarani: fluent
English: b1
portuguese: probably b2
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Damn, really? Native American languages are so fascinating. Do you use Guarani in your daily life, do you speak it at home?
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haupei man, Where are you from?
PT-Hue: native
English: fluent
Spanish: fluent
This is something I hate about being english - there is no real need or way to learn another language. And I'm sure learning english if you are non-native isn't easy but it must help a lot having a lot of english all over the internet. I want to learn another language but have no clue where to start.
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Don’t if you have no need to or don’t have strong passion to a language. A waste of time.
Yeah theres no way whatsoever to avoid english in everyday life. Even in the 90s we had cartoon network and MTV tho english pop culture wasnt that widespread over here.
The thing here is, you can pretty much use english for everything in life.
But are you interested in learning anything else or you don't care either? That's the thing
First step, you want
Second step, watch some basic videos ( If you don't wanna pay for lessons )
Start with small texts and translating them and start getting word by word, then the same way u learned english in school, you go and learn a new language with different grammar.
You have to put a bit more effort since you're doing it by yourself.
When you feel like you know a bit. Start watching shows in english with X subtitles ( wwhatever u learning )
If you play a lot of games and you've played the game for years. ( Like for example world of warcraft )
I started with the game in portuguese, went to spanish and ended up having it in english. I went through every stage and since quests and chat are pretty similar, you'll instantly know since you've read it already in your main languagea and you'll be able to translate it.
Sorry for wall of text, there are some small tricks to start. If you really want you can lmk!
English
Some Spanish from high school + university
I'm trying to learn Dutch cause of the similarity to English.
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Dutch
French intermediate (school)
English fluent (self)
Spanish and German beginner (duolingo and school respectively)
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English
Can Communicate in Spanish
I want to learn more but unfortunately it's not very beneficial to learn other languages than these 2 in the US
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does it have to be beneficial tho?
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On the long run you gotta make active use of the language you learn. You gotta put yourself in situations where youre required to use that language. You dont learn a language for 10 years cuz of the passion alone, it fades.
For example you wont stick with learning japanese if you dont make japanese friends or read japanese books or want to travel to japan or arent interested in jpn media or politics at all etc.
So ye it (also) has to be beneficial. There has to be a practical use for it.
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Canadian as well mens?
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all of them bro google translate and i dont speak in real life
Russian is my mother tongue
English - around C1, it used to be better.
These are the only languages I’m able to both speak and understand.
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C 4eM?
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Mne bolee chem hvataet, ja probova neskolko drugih jazykov uchit, no motivatsii net kogda tebe realno nahui ne nado eto vse. Ja dumaju v buduschem k nemetskomu i ukrainskomu pritronutsya (ja ego na sluh ponimaju dazhe), potomuchto u menya natural passion k nim kakoje-to est iz-za istorii semji, no v tselom ja slishkom mnogo ne poteryal by dazhe esli by anglijskogo ne znal, eto ne tak kritichno, na russkom dohuische razlichnogo kontenta imeetsya. Ja ponimaju, chto u vas na polskom ne tak mnogo vsego, hotya tozhe populjarnyj jazyk dostatochno.
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yazik naverno popularniy, ya zametil chto vi vse perevodite na pycckij chto ne russkoe
eto kak to ubavlyaet motivaciju sng soobshestvy uchitb angliskiy, gde to xorowo a gde to grustno odnovremenno
ya schitayu chto pycckij namnogo poleznee polskogo voobshem xot9 ya nikogda v strone sng ne bil)
Slovenian - native
English - school mostly
Serbocroatianwhatever - pop culture, family, internet
Macedonian - studied it at uni for a year, it was years ago, i suck at it now
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cuz i like the idea and i'm from an exyu country
why do you ask?
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yes but i dont understand your point
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okej brate thanks for the advice
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correct :D can you blame us?
about half of my family is from around zagreb tho
Idea was great but executed by tards
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A lot of positive things came out of it despite the tards
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Yes but it could be even better, sadly it wasn't
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For sure, shame
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Tongue.. man it just hurts
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