Archived How many languages do you speak and what are they? (OccidentalEnclave)
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Archived How many languages do you speak and what are they? (OccidentalEnclave)
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[–] Oswy 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
English native, Russian for work, and Spanish with the in-laws and neighbours. I know enough Welsh and Irish to make the natives uneasy, and did several years of French and German at school, meaning I can do the old "could you tell me the way to the railways station?" routine reasonably well. Ah, sometimes I work in Italian too, thanks to my Castilian and dimly remembered piano lessons. Allegro ma non troppo, ragazza mia!
[–] Kattie 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I speak Swedish, Finnish, English and German. I can speak some French too but it's far from fluent
And yeah, I understand spoken Norwegian and I'm able to comprehend written texts in both Norwegian and Danish.
[–] TheRealMaestro 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
I speak German and English fluently.
I have had some training in French, but my instructor was gruesome and I could not utter a sentence of it when I last went to Alsace; written French is is somewhat easier for me to comprehend.
If I stare for a long enough period of time at a work written in a language like Dutch or Danish, I can infer enough from cognates to understand generally what is being said. With my bad ears, listening to them produces the effect that I ought to be able to understand them. Happily most of these people already speak one of my better languages.
I have been dabbling half-heartedly in Esperanto for several months.
[–] Oswy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
To the gulag with this one!
[–] lostnewbie 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
1.25 English and terrible but functional Spanish. Cause Merica
[–] Hammish 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Doesn't English work for most situations if spoken loudly enough?
[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
English.
Just enough French to be mocked in France. They are such jerks.