What languages do you speak?
What languages do you speak?
Alternatively, in the languages I speak:
Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie? (Deutsch/German)
¿Qué idiomas habla usted? (Español/Spanish)
Quelle langue parlez-vous? (Français/French)
EDIT: These sentences are now up to date.
Was Sprachen Sie spricht? (Deutsch/German)
I'm not a native speaker, but I'm pretty sure it's
Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie?
assuming you want to be formal, which feels a little weird to me in the context of an internet forum.
Edit: but to answer your question: fluent English, mehr als ein Bißchen Deutsch, y un poquito Español.
English and ɥsolƃuƎ uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀
- I have spoken English since birth.
- Je parle français depuis l'âge de 7 ans, parce que je l'apprenais à l'école.
- Estudiaba el español en la escuela secundaria.
- Jag lär mig svenska i fler än tio år.
- Ich kann etwas Deutsch lesen und verstehen.
And thanks to my Swedish, I can read a surprising amount of Danish and Norwegian.
I would call myself proficient in French, passable in Spanish, barely functional in Swedish, and I can get by in German in a very banal emergency. 😉
I'm able to speak German (native speaker) and English (fluent).
Also, as a German speaker, I'd like to correct the question in the post:
Formal would be "Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie?".
More fitting for a casual environment (such as Lemmy) would be "Welche Sprachen sprecht Ihr?" though :)
This is, because in German there are formal and informal ways of addressing people, both with their distinctive pronouns. Usually, when talking to people you don't know personally, you'll address them formally and then, when offered to, switch to the informal style once you know them. Online or among the younger generation it is much more common to just use the informal case though.
Baguette, dutch, english and spanish, i love to speak all 4 equally but french is the equivalent of a having a migraine to write
(Spanish):
Mi lengua materna es el español.(English):
I speak English as my second language.(French):
Je parle rançais aussi, me pas aussi bien que l'anglais. (Ouais je sais, ce n'était pas un accident)(Japanese):
日本語も できるよ。2年ぐらい 勉強している。実際、去年 日本語能力試験を受けて、N4が できた。言語は 勉強の頑張れば、頑張るほど、よくできるよ。(Russian?):
When I was in highschool I started learning russian, but since then I've forgotten most of it, I can only say hi, good (morning/afternoon/evening) and other easy things. I don't have a russian keyboard but it's 'Privyet', 'Dobraye utra', 'Dobrij bchyer', 'Spakoinai nochi', 'Spasiba', 'Izvinitye, ya nye ponimayu, ya nye goborit po-russkij', 'ya nichyevo nye snayu'.(German?):
Ich lerne Deutch im Moment mit meine Freundin. Aber ich bin nicht gut.Si quieres algunas observaciones... "¿Qué idiomas hablan ustedes?" Sería lo correcto (de acuerdo a la RAE). Creo que utilizaste la conjugación de la segunda persona singular del verbo hablar "tú hablas", en vez del plural "ustedes hablan". Et en français, je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais mon cerveau me dit que "¿Quelles langues parlez vous?" Va mieux. Und auf Deutch, ich denke dass "Welche Sprachen sprechen sie?" richtiger ist.
I know enough Spanish to embarrass myself. I know enough of Nahuatl to understand some glyphs. I speak English at an American level, which is greasy.
fluent in Maltese (native) and English. Conversational in Italian. I was one of the last generations to grow up without the internet, so we had to watch TV. And we're in close proximty to italy so we could get their channels. It is much less common nowadays for kids to also know Italian here. But people my age have no idea what Dragon Ball Z sounds like in english. We all watched it in Italian.
in addition to my native brazilian portuguese, i'm fluent in english and basic to intermediate level in spanish and french. i can understand and speak roughly some german and russian too (started the courses, but never finished). my objective is to someday learn both german and russian up to intermediate level, and then go for some arabic, mandarin, kongo, nheengatu (an old creole language that mixed tupi-guarani and portuguese) and esperanto.
Euskaraz hitz egiten dut. (Basque language: I speak Basque)
Spanish is also my mother tongue. As you can see, I also speak English.
Ma langue maternelle est le français. Je suis né et vis au Québec, d’une famille canadienne française assez typique. Mes habiletés d’écriture sont plutôt fortes à en croire mes notes à l’école, mais je les pratique très peu. Je ne le parle pas aussi bien que je l’écris…
Otherwise I’m pretty proficient in English. I’d say I’m more or less bilingual at this point. I cannot seem to enjoy fiction books nearly as much in the language though. I can’t really appreciate the differences in style well enough, I think.
Parlo italiano da madrelingua, and i speak english decently(mostly informal and internet/'murican slang).
I studied a little Spanish in middle school but forgot it, mostly.
Mi parolas la Esperanton tre malbone.
Fluent in Norwegian and English. Norwegian allows me to basically fully understand Swedish and Danish, but my mimicking/mocking of those languages does probably not count as languages I can speak.
I also have some very rusty german education which would probably allow me to be understood, but hardly enough to have a conversation.
Greek, English, and I understand a bit of French, since my husband is French. I lived for 9 months in Germany too, and I could understand a bit of that too, but that was 30 years ago and I've forgotten most of it.
Truth is, I don't really like verbal communication, in any language. I have trouble finding words (including my native one), it's as if my brain is not optimized for language. It gets worse when I'm sick (I have multiple autoimmune issues), it's as if language becomes a barrier. My husband becomes aggravated when I can't find the right words to communicate. I wish we had telepathy, communicating with feelings.
I'm a native Portuguese speaker, fluent in English and can understand Spanish and French. Despite having had 3 years of French in school, I can no longer speak properly, and my writing is really bad, but I can understand pretty well. Spanish just comes to me because of the similarities with Portuguese, I never formally learned it.
!esp@lemm.ee for Spanish speakers
My native language is French, but I also speak fluent English and a little 日本語 and Spanish.
日本語はもっと難しいだったな。 El español era más fácil de aprender gracias a sus similitudes con el francés, pero, no hablo muy bien😅.
Oh btw, it is not "Que langue fait-vous parler" (blind traduction of the english "What language do-you speak") but rather "Quelles langues parlez-vous?" ("What languages speaks-you?").
We don't use "do" for interrogative in french. The endings for "parler" (to speak) are: Je parle, tu parles, il parle, nous parlons, vous parlez, ils parlent. To make interogative phrases, just invert the pronoun and the verb: tu parles -> parles-tu? So "What language you speak" -> "What language speaks-you?". Sorry for the awkward course ;)
English, and the teeniest, tiniest bit of Spanish.
My Spanish is in a southern accent, and doesn't even reach the fluency of a damn toddler.
I have more latin under my belt from medical terminology, which I guess is sort of a language of its own. I've been out of the field for over a decade, and I still do well with it casually reading publications that interest me. But I don't really have enough of the latin to equate to being able to speak latin, or even read it. Same with the greek that's folded into medicalese.
So just english in any real sense, though I can kinda read Spanish well enough I guess, as long as I have access to a dictionary lol.
Cantonese (廣東話/粵語) is what I speak, Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) is what I write.
唔好彩嘅係，Google 仲未支援粵語翻譯，你可以試下用其他翻譯器，DDG 嗰個好似 OK
(Translation: Unfortunately, Google still doesn't support Cantonese translation. You can try other translators. The DDG one seems ok.)
Other than that, I also speak Mandarin (普通話/國語), which is the other spoken Chinese.
Polish
English
Learning German and Spanish
Russian, English and some Japanese.
พูดภาษาไทยได้ครับ ພາສາລາວດ້ວຍເດີ້
Ich spreche Deutsch, And I speak English, and I learn Russian.
Englisch deutsch français
Native English speaker. I learned some French in school and enough Japanese to get through a judo match. I struggle to retain other languages. Everywhere I go everyone speaks English and it's hard to justify learning a new one even everyone in a 1000 mile radius speaks English.
Samples from the four I know:
My name is Leni.
Nimi mi li Leni.
Hake anni Leni.
-- -.-- / -. .- -- . / .. ... / .-.. . -. .. .-.-.-
Samples from ones I know selectively:
O Leni to'u i'oa.
Ko Leni toku ingoa.
Meu nome é Leni.
Je m'appelle Léni.
English. Poorly.
German, English, a little Dutch and Javascript
English and my native Serbian.
Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt. Ich benutze es sehr seltsam, aber ich habe fast nichts vergessen, weil unsere Lehrerinen sehr sehr Böse war. Deutsch in der Schule hat meine Leben 10 jahren verkurtzt.
Έχω μάθει και τα Ελληνικά. Ένα από τα όνειρά μου είναι να διαβάζω τα κείμενα στα αρχαία ελληνικά, αλλά αυτό ήταν τρόπο δύσκολο. Γιατί αποφάσισε να μαθαίνω πρότω τα νέα Ελληνικα, καί σύντομα τα αρχαία είναι πολύ πιό εύκολα.
I can understand a fair amount of Russian, but I can't necessarilly speak it as well.
I am a native English speaker y hablo un poco español und ich sprache ein bisschen Deutch.
English, Swedish, and Finnish.
Merican and a touch of Mexican
Jestem rodowitym Polakiem i moim ojczystym językiem jest polski.
I use english so much everyday that I begin to forget how to write in my native langauge.
я училсья руский язык в школье. Я умею болше читать чем писять.
私の日本語は大丈夫じやないです。
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polish, english, russian and japanese
English and Turkish as native languages, I've also studied French as a prep-year for highschool so I can understand it but don't speak it fluently, same with Italian, somehow. Other than that I've been learning Mandarin for a year and I'll take the HSK 3 exam in a few months :D
Portuguese, English, enough to understand Spanish, learning French now.
Native English, conversational japanese, survival German (I was conversational at one point, but it's mostly gone), a tiny bit of french (same as German), very basic Spanish, and a tiny bit of Hebrew (I wanted to learn something in the semitic family and it seemed less intimidating than Arabic to start with)
I'm just here to Beetlejuice
English natively und ich lerne Deustch (aber ich spreche nur ein bisschen)
English, spanish , turkish.
I can understand , through mutual intelligibility , azerbaycani, portuguese... then some itallian and some french.
I studied german for 5 years in school and forgot it all.
Dutch, German, French, English and what starts to become passable Slovak.
Greek, Dutch and English
Depends on who you ask. I'm American and went to the UK. I was looking to pick up my rental car, you know, so I could drive on the wrong side of the road and found a sign that read, "rental car collection." I had to ask a local who was doing the collecting, because I don't speak English. " If I was collecting the car, it's a pick up. If they were collecting the car it's a drop off. So....
I also butcher German and Spanish pretty well.
Mon français n'est pas mauvais, und mein Deutsch ist ziemlich schlecht.
Je ne sais pas si mon allemand avait un sens.
Also English lol.
I speak English. Je ne parle qu'un peu le français.
English is the only language I'm even vaguely proficient in, really.
Le francais est le loin ma deuxieme langue la plus forte. Mais ce n'est toujours pas tres bon, et je dois passer beaucoup de temps pour ecrire dans francais, et generalement rechercher quelques mots ou expressions. Mais ma grammaire est assez bonne, je pense.
I also spent a few years learning Spanish, but almost none of it stuck. And a few years learning Korean while living in Korea. I learnt a few of the necessary words and phrases relating to restaurants and taxis, and some very rudimentary grammar. And being able to read the script is a neat party trick. And one year of actual Vietnamese education + a few more years of peripheral exposure to the language while I lived there. Even less of it stuck than the Spanish though.
English and Spanish, little bit of Italian and I can understand very basic Arabic words or words that are used extensively.
English, Russian, Czech (used to be fluent, but haven't used in a while), Mandarin (a bit, still learning)
English, German, a bit of Mandarin, and Toki Pona!
Dutch, a funky dutch dialect, English and I understand German but I don't speak it. Should probably learn it.
Como lengua materna, el español. (For my mother language, Spanish)
English being my second language.
日本語も少しできます。(I can also understand a little bit of Japanese). My first attempt at learning it was like 13 years ago, when I was 14. A later attempt was 7 years ago, didn't last much on them for lack of organisation but still retained a little bit more of knowledge. My third round is still ongoing and has crossed the year mark).
Besides those, some time during my high school days I also studied a bit of French and mostly Italian. I wouldn't be able to speak either fluently but I may grasp a little bit more than relying solely on mutual intelligibility.
Some languages I have interest in learning even if just a bit, in no particular order: Mandarin, Russian, Korean, German, Hokkien, Cantonese.
Fluently? Only English. But I spent 20 years in the US military, nearly 8 of them living full-time in foreign countries. So I did my best to learn at least a little of the languages I was exposed to in my travels.
I was stationed in Japan for 3 years. I learned how to get around and order food in Japanese, plus some limited conversation. I'm actually studying to read the language now. I could read Hirigana and Katakana (the Japanese alphabets) when I lived there. But it takes their students their entire school lives to learn how to read Kanji (the complex Chinese-borrowed symbols that represent entire words), so that one will keep me busy for a while.
When I was stationed in Germany, I learned some basic German, thanks to having friendly neighbors who spoke nearly fluent English. They helped me correct and improve my German language skills. But I was only in the country for a couple years, so I didn't get very advanced with it.
I took 4 years of French in high school. I thought I was pretty decent at it, but every time I attempted to speak the language in France, the locals immediately switched over to English to converse with me.
Random related tangent: my wife and I took a vacation to Berlin once, and my wife, like me, spent several years studying French in high school. She decided to test her German language skills with the locals, and when she spoke, they immediately switched to French for her. Turns out, she speaks German with a heavy French accent. She was able to finish her conversation in French.
I'm currently studying Norwegian. My 3x great grandfather immigrated to America from Norway, and I still have living descendants of my ancestors over there. My dad and I went to visit them once, and I would like to be able to speak their native language the next time I go back. It used to be a rule that everyone in my family line learned English and Norwegian, but my grandfather died when my dad was only 2, so my dad never learned Norwegian, and thus neither did I.
I learned some extremely limited Korean. I was assigned to South Korea twice, for a year each time, and the military wouldn't let me live off-base amongst the locals, so I didn't get much free time to explore the country and learn the language. But I made an effort to learn some phrases so I could be polite in public, order food, and find my way back to the military base if I got lost.
Other languages that I've been exposed to and picked up a handful of words/phrases, but never seriously attempted to study: Italian, Arabic, Spanish, and Hawaiian.
Englisch and jeeburriche
English, decent Italian, a handful of words in French and Spanish, fluent piglatin.
Native English speaker. I learned some French in school and enough Japanese to get through a judo match. I struggle to retain other languages. Everywhere I go everyone speaks English and it's hard to justify learning a new one even everyone in a 1000 mile radius speaks English.
I mean. im not so good at english as a native speaker. near the end of college my friend and I traded transcripts and his comment was. you get pretty good grades. oh except in spanish. when I had classes that were straight up english classes I similarly did not do well.
straylian, and that's about it
Estonian, English and a couple of the simplest words in Russian.
I speak English, I studied Latin but have not kept up, and I know a tiny bit of Japanese and French.
According to this post I speak magenta.
English Spanish Portuguese
I want to learn Russian and Chinese
I am a native Tigrigna speaker, fluent in English, conversational in Dutch and Tigre. I have learned Arabic and Chinese but I don't speak it very well.
I’ve mostly got English and Japanese. English is pretty hard. I’m just a turtle.
英語と日本語が話せる。日本語は簡単だ。亀だけです。
Native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, speaking English fluently, also speak Spanish with some moderate success and Japanese with a bit less.
Swedish, English and Spanish - in approximate order of proficiency.
Swedish and English.
I know a few phrases in Spannish as well.
Best to worst:
- English (Native)
- Spanish (Moderate)
- Japanese (Too low, needs severe work.)
English. I really wish I had done better in French class during school
Spanish, english, german.
German (native), English (not native-level but compared to my work colleagues I might as well be lol) and some American Sign Language (I can carry a simple conversation as long as I may fingerspell words I don't know yet/anymore)
Spanish and English. I also know enough Catalan to be able to read but now speak it
Spanish as my native language, English, intermediate Portuguese and currently learning French.
Polish (my native language) and english (duh). I also want to learn lojban for fun, but I keep procrastinating
Yo Greek (native), English and some German (B1 level). (Might learn Spanish or Portuguese too :) )
Us paraprau ite te reo Tahiti.
हिन्दी(Hindi) and Shitty English.
Was learning spanish but dropped it.
Only truly fluent in English.
Tetapi aku bisa bicara bahasa Indonesia. Ada komunitas bahasa indonesia dalam lemmy? Aku tidak bisa cari apa-apa.
J'ai etudié francais a l'université, mais maintenant j'ai oublié beaucoup.
I speak a little Chinese, but am fully illiterate in it.
انا بتهكي عربي شواي
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English and Spanish. I also want to learn Portuguese eventually mostly because I am looking into moving to Brazil.
- Python
- C
- Ruby
- Rust
Português brasileiro fluente/nativo.
Read/Write fluent English, a bit broken speech.
Ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch lesen/verstehen. Es war meine erste Sprache, aber ich habe das meiste davon vergessen, als ich Portugiesisch lernte.