I speak English, I’m learning my heritage language Norwegian.

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    Finnish, German, English, Ukrainian, Estonian, Swedish, Latvian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French. A little Italian and Portuguese as well. I did manage to explain some simple things in Czech some days ago, and I can read south-Slavic languages surprisingly well. And often decipher the main point of a text in Romanian.

    Almost no Hungarian or Mandarin, though very simple questions are possible anyway. And then of course I can read Norwegian and Danish reasonably well, because if you know Swedish, English, German and Dutch, you already know Danish. And for a similar reason, Slovak goes.

    I can speak less than five words of Albanian, Basque, Greek, Welsh, Breton, any Gaelic language or any Sámi language. Those are something should probably learn a bit, at least.

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      Perhaps asking which languages you don’t speak woulf work better in your case, holly shit.

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        One of the languages I am not sufficiently fluent in, yet, is that of Australia and USA. What does “Diction needed” mean in this context?

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          Diction is speech (like dire in French), and it was a bit of wordplay on the common expression ‘citation needed’ like the other commenter said :) Basically joking that a claim to speak a language should be backed up by saying something in that language to be believed.

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            No kurienes tev zināt, ka neesmu vinkarši izmantojis tulkojuma aparātes? :)

            Eble vi devus usi telefonon en paroli kun mi. Mi ne scias.

            Pero, quien quiere, puede me llamar por exemple con Matrix. У початку просто думав, що й так ніхто мене вірятіме, якщо віряті не хоче. Und wer meenen Wörtern glohben will, tut es ja eh. So is halt det Leben.

            Aber jut, nu är nånting skrivits :)

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    Bangla mainly and sometimes English but pretty less in daily life (I do understand more languages but I just don’t speak them)

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    Native Portuguese and English, fluent Spanish, absolutely terrible German, and the one semester of French I took just made me determined to never speak it. “Quatre-vingt-douze” isn’t a number, it’s an algebra problem.

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    Native Dutch, fluent English, fluent German and French, I can carry a conversation in Spanish and Italian, and some baby steps in Japanese.

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    Native Spanish, very good Catalan, good English and some (not enough to speak them) Portuguese, Italian and French.

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    Native: Spanish Fluent: Portuguese, English I can understand almost everything and can sort of speak it very badly: Italian, Catalan I know very basic things and could probably have survival level communication (although I would have to think hard since I haven’t used either in years): Russian, German Know how to say random phrases, generally “Excuse me, I don’t speak <language>, do you speak English?”: Finnish, French, Dutch.

    Currently I’m focusing on learning Catalan.

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    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).

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    I know 2 languages I’m 100% confident. I know another one where I’m 75% confident that I’ll understand and can reply in an understandable way. I know another one 25% I can get by for daily basic things. And I know one where I only know the swear words.