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[–] TheRealMaestro 0 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.

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[–] Oswy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Esperanto

To the gulag with this one!