I’m from the US and English is the only language I speak fluently.

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    10 hours ago

    Mexican here:

    Spanish & English - Fluent

    Japanese - Intermediate-advanced

    French - Still learning but it’s so similar to Spanish it feels like cheating 😅

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      11 hours ago

      Same here! But I’m Mexican from Mexico.

      Last year I’ve gotten to reading full-length Japanese news articles with little to no help with the Kanjis.

      It’s funny how many Latinos are naturally drawn to Japanese. I always blame the loads of anime we got throughout the 90s.

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    19 hours ago

    From Mexico Magico, and I speak Spanish, English, enough French and enough Portuguese brasileiro to get by. And I am currently working on improving my Korean because I live in a city that has a huge community.

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    I’m part Scottish, part English. I speak:

    English - idiomatically
    French - conversationally
    Italian - I just want to reply to people in French all the time
    German - I can ask where the station is
    Japanaese - I can say ‘I do not understand’

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      19 hours ago

      I wish I knew how to write Korean nicely. Is definitely easier to speak for me than to write it lol.

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    The UK.

    I am fluent in English and good enough in Mandarin to get by.

    Earlier in life I was passable at French in France, but I have lost that now. It’s been overwritten by the Mandarin from having spent a few years in the PRC teaching English.

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    US. I speak ok Mandarin, poor Spanish and bad Portuguese. And I guess English. Also I can’t read Chinese reliably, so I am also illiterate.

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    Hungarian, so beyond that that i speak english (duh) swedish, though i mostly read books on it, not a lot of swedes around, and i am trying to pick up some chinese now

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      19 hours ago

      There’s a Hungarian hardcore band I like called Aws. It’s a really neat language. I don’t understand a word of it sadly. Maybe someday.

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        19 hours ago

        Ah, nice. Have not heard of them, funnily enough. But i am all for hardcore so there is that :D how did you learn about them?

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          18 hours ago

          They were on Eurovision representing Hungary. I listen to alot of non-English music. This is the song if you’re interested. I think their singer passed away unfortunately.

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            17 hours ago

            Thanks, I’ll check it out. I don’t really follow music recently all that much so i guess it explains it

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    23 hours ago

    From the UK originally, which is complicated enough. To foreigners I tend to say “England”, which (a) is true and (b) everyone understands. But I consider myself British, not English, and certain not a “UK person” (ugh).

    I speak French near-natively from having lived there for a big chunk of my life. Spanish: intermediate, because it’s like French. German: got an A at GCSE decades ago, so not very good. Tried learning Russian a few years ago and, wow, that was hard. I cannot speak Russian. But being able to decipher the Cyrillic script is definitely a cool party trick.

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      19 hours ago

      I usually refer to England as Great Brittan? Is that generally preferred? Are there many Spanish speakers in Great Brittan?

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        I usually refer to England as Great Brittan? Is that generally preferred?

        No, because it’s wrong!

        • Great Britain = England + Scotland + Wales
        • UK = Great Britain + Northern Ireland
        • British = citizen of (careful!) UK

        You’re welcome.

        Are there many Spanish speakers in Great Brittan?

        Far fewer than there are English speakers.