I speak English, I’m learning my heritage language Norwegian.
English, and I have some very poor Gaeilge (Irish).
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I only speak english and bad english
English, Russian, Serbo-Chroatian, a bit of Ukrainian. Very little of Deutsch.
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So i’m fluent in English and a specific proto-sign language that as far as i know only a few hundred people sign. I can order food and ask where the toilet is in about 30-50 languages, depending on the day. My Spanish and German are rusty: i have production issues but my receptive is competent. All my other romance languages (except basque and romanian, i haven’t looked at those at all) are decent enough to travel and make an ass of myself. My germanic and nordic languages are worse than my romance ones. Do not ask me anything in Afrikaans I will assume you are drunk.
American English with a specialty in the dialect of American Regulatory Legalese.
Spanish, Arabic, and Irish I used to be able to read and write, but was always terrible at understanding any of them spoken.
I learned bits of German by proxy from having friends stationed at Heidelberg.
Since Lemmy apparently has a ton of people who are bilingual — how do I as a 31 year old man that knows enough Spanish to say ‘Thank you, where is the bathroom?’ and frequently watches anime in subtitles gain another language? I’m open to all suggestions, except bad ones. Specifically I am interested in learning Mandarin because I hate myself.
I’m a native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker and I’ll be brutally honest, you need a huge motivation, or else you will struggle to be fluent.
Not just because you like the aesthetics, or like the idea of being bilingual…
What are you gonna even use the language for.
For example, you might wanna learn Japanese for better experience enjoying Anime…
My parents came to the US as adults.
My dad has been in the US for… 16 years… still a non citizen and never really learned English
Meanwhile, mom needs it to do bussiness… investments… and stuff… so she has to learn it… She knows enough to become a citizen…
The biggest thing is IMMERSION. Even then, dad never learner it…
My parents barely understand me lol. Since I only know 2nd grade level of Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin share similar vocaublary)… despite being a native speaker.
A westerner is gonna struggle a lot with the tones…
I was “luckly” enough to be just at the perfect time of 8 years old so I know enough basics of Chinese before emigraring… so my brain is in between two worlds.
If I was born in the US, idk if I could manage to learn it.
IMO Mandarin is gonna be tough since Chinese shows are sooo boring… soo cliche… predictable story is gonna kill the will to learn… (unless you love bad tv drama lol)
Ask your self: What are you gonna use Mandarin for? (Also: do you also wanna learn the writing too? Since its logographics, much harder.) Just as a trophy? Or actually gonna regularly have a use for it?
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 :)
Spanish native. I got bored with English so I moved on to learning Català 🤣
Norwegian, Swedish, German, English, some French and maybe enough Spanish to survive a week or two.
En annen norsktalende person!!! Heihei!!
Finnish, English and technically some Swedish. Technically because I refuse to talk it
A bit of English and some Japanese…
Native: German
Well: English, French
A little: Spanish, Esperanto, Latin
Able to understand partially: Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian
A couple of phrases: Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese
Just two, don’t wanna say which for privacy reasons.
I do want learn Dutch though. I think it sounds whimsical, and I’d love to meet a Dutch woman that can beat my ass (i heard they’re headstrong and dont take any shit).
