What languages can you speak?

[ChicoFromThe305]

[Genie23]

I speak 3 regional languages and English, but I'm only very fluent in two. People often assume my first language is Hindi because of where I'm from, but it isn't... it's Marathi. The weirdest thing is that my Marathi isn't very good... because I spoke Hindi so much that I didn't get to practice my first language.

Why? My friends, teachers, and others couldn't speak Marathi. There was a time when I wouldn't even realise that I was mixing two languages into a single sentence while speaking Marathi. 🫣

But I've gotten much better now. I don't mix them up anymore. 😅

[Genie23]

Oh, and let me tell you something. It's happening again... everytime I answer your question, the system choose my answer as SO. 😂 Me right now-

[ChicoFromThe305]

Well just how there's Spanglish when someone mixes Spanish and English, you have marindi 😂

But this is very interesting that you speak this many languages, my question is why did you have to speak more Hindi than your original language? Is the language not as common anymore? Is it becoming the new Latin 🤔

[loveslongnails]

Unfortunately, I'm fluent only in English. A know a little Spanish and French, but can't hold a conversation in either. Wish it would have been required and taught in schools from the time I was 5 years old, but growing up in the USA, they expected the rest of world to learn English. A lot of the world does know some English today, but learning another language would have been more beneficial than the bullshit history they taught me and I had to un-learn.

[ChicoFromThe305]

I thought all American schools taught Spanish? Well I guess I don't know how long ago they started tho

[832loverboy73]

They barely teach English, as most Yanks butcher it !!!

[tiredpanda]

Croatian (therefore Serbian too lol), English, and Italian (although my Italian has gotten pretty rusty since I haven't actively used it in a few years). I can also understand some Spanish and a few other languages lol.

[tiredpanda]

Oh and Latin! I studied it in school, so I know some fancy phrases and legal terminology 😂

[DryGermanGuy]

„Aleae iactae sunt." 🧐

[tiredpanda]

@DryGermanGuy Et tu, Brute? 🤣jk

[ChicoFromThe305]

I tried to learn Latin for like 30 minutes, I hope you are better at learning languages than me 😂

[tiredpanda]

@ChicoFromThe305 Yeah, Latin was boring and complicated at times 🤣
Well, I LOVE languages and I'd love to learn a bunch of them so that goes in my favour 🤣 Which one would you like to learn, besides Latin? 😆

[ChicoFromThe305]

Complicated yes, as for boring I can't see why you found it boring, Everytime I hear Latin or try to speak it I feel like a roman in a dim lit room with cobblestone walls and armor ready to defend an empire 😂

As for learning languages I'm very bad at it but i know English and Spanish and that's good enough for me, maybe someday I'll try to learn Japanese so I can go to Japan lol

[tiredpanda]

@ChicoFromThe305 LMAO I love how you've romanticized Latin 🤣I meant the grammar part. All those declensions and stuff. Our teacher would make us analyze these ridiculously complex Latin sentences and we had to go through literally EVERY word, identifying its part of speech, gender, number, case, declension and so on. It got pretty repetitive and boring after a while 🤣 But it's a nice language, though. I especially like legal Latin lol

Ooh, Japanese would be interesting to learn! And visiting Japan sounds like a pretty good motivation haha

[ChicoFromThe305]

I don't know what you find romantic about a roman swinging a gladious sword defending an empire but I guess we all have our own ideas of romance 😂

As for learning languages, you seem to have much better tolerance and ability to pick up the languages much better than I ever could.

Yea Japan sounds cool, if I can't be a roman I'll be a samurai 😂

[Dr_Dixon_Cider]

English and Japanese... although I haven't lived in Japan for a while now, and I did a recent reading test and my Japanese is slipping from where it was when I lived there.

[ChicoFromThe305]

I wish I spoke Japanese

[Dr_Dixon_Cider]

10 years of juggling girls that don't speak English at all will do it to you.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Lol.

[midnightmoon05]

Can? lol

a lot…like 2,3 1/2? you won’t understand… in this case… you can only understand me in English n in typed form lol

[ChicoFromThe305]

Yes but one language is enough to communicate with midnight, it's better than no language 😂

[thegreenyogi]

Italian, English and French which I am presently still learning...

[ChicoFromThe305]

Oh nice, I'm part Italian but unfortunately not too tangled with my roots, I assume French is somehow very common there since my father being Italian he also knew some French and studied French

[thegreenyogi]

What part of Italy? Well French does come easy to me although there's not much French speaking in the South of Italy...(=

[ChicoFromThe305]

I'd have to ask him exactly what part he was from but I do know he was born there and then spent most of him youth in Venezuela which then he moved to Miami when he was close to adulthood spent the rest of his life here, I can look at a French dictionary and somewhat guess words, only cause I know Spanish, but I noticed that if you know Italian the words are probably even easier to read.

[lilBigPotato]

Spanish, English fluently, French and German good enough to get around.

[ChicoFromThe305]

So you are quadlingual very interesting

[DryGermanGuy]

German, English fluent. Spanish, French semi-fluent.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Very interesting indeed, more quadlingual

[Lliam]

Only English, unfortunately. I know a tiny bit of Spanish and a few words in several other languages, but that's it.

[Iron_Man]

Perfect English, a few words of Spanish and about four words of Swedish

[ChicoFromThe305]

Something is something

[832loverboy73]

NOT AAVE, which isn't spoken by us blacks in Southwestern Ontario, where I live.

[LiamS95]

Only English and a little bit of French and a bit of Italian

[sage2021]

1-1/2

English and some sign language

[ChicoFromThe305]

That's very interesting 🤔

[MrChinaski]

My English is approaching fluent conversation, on good days.

[molonski2]

English

And Pud Thai Dai Nid Noy krub..

[valentina4eva]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇹 learning 🇫🇷

[Still-alive]

Do you speak it often daily?

[valentina4eva]

which one?

[Still-alive]

Italian 🇮🇹

[valentina4eva]

only when i have to!!🙈🙈 im only native speaker lvl with english😅

[Still-alive]

Mama mia lol 😂

[ChicoFromThe305]

A very interesting combination, I picked up the pattern, these seem to be a common duo, lots of Italians seem to bring up French as a secondary language.

[valentina4eva]

@ChicoFromThe305 i just think it’s such a pretty language!!🇫🇷 i also want to learn Spanish eventually, but that’s a much longer term plan lol

[ChicoFromThe305]

Well if you end up learning French then I think Spanish will be easier to learn faster than it would by jumping to it now 😬

[valentina4eva]

ohh ya for suree, i can’t try and do 2 at the same time lol
they are both very similar lexicon to Italian thoo, so that helps!!😅

[ChicoFromThe305]

Yea so it sounds like you have a good plan going here 😂

[Still-alive]

@valentina4eva do you ever mix up the languages? like you start a sentence in English then end in italian? lol

[valentina4eva]

noo not if im talking to someone😅😅 if im translating something to myself tho, sometimes i’ll switch languages halfway through accidentally

[ElenaLena]

2……………

[ChicoFromThe305]

Thanks for sharing, those are good languages 😂

[ElenaLena]

Aww.. you are welcome 🤓

[ChicoFromThe305]

You would gatekeep the languages 😂

[Staximus]

Just English and a little Spanish

[CubaPirate]

Just English and a tiny bit of Spanish

[Smegskull]

イギリスの英語

[ChicoFromThe305]

What 😂

[KypHistory91]

7 🤷‍♂️

[ChicoFromThe305]

Dayum how tf 😂

[FunkyMonkee]

English.