native English
learned French (4 years in high school)

English, obviously. Native-level (but technically not native-speaker since according to some linguists), started learning since 8 years old with full immersion.

Cantonse and Mandarin. Native languages.

Cantonese used at home.

Understand a bit of Taishanese but not well enought to speak full sentences... (mostly curse words xD). Parents never spoke to me in Taishanese. Parents speak Taishanese with grandparents.

Can read basic Chinese characters (simplified... looking at traditional gives me headaches)... I can type with Pinyin and Jyutping... can't write... (its like you know what a picture looks like but hard to draw that picture by hand... know what I mean?)

I went to school in China till 2nd grade...

I remember teachers had a meter stick and would slap your hand with it as "discipline" and my mom APRROVES OF IT... 💀

They would throw chalk at you if you looked like you weren't paying attention... (sometimes they missed and hit another kid xD)

They played the stupid National Anthem just like the US does.

They make you memorize whole short story and recite it and make you stay late afterschool if and make you recite it... and I remember sometimes they had another kid standing behind the teacher and held the book open so the other kid being quizzed on it can secretly cheat off of it lmfao...

I can probably survive in Mainland China, HK, Taiwan, as a tourist, without needing translation... (I'm gonna sound like a 2nd grader tho lol)

Honestly I rather just forget those languages and become monolingual if it means not have to deal with the cultural baggage...

为什么华人父母这么恶？烦的要死。。。😭

屌那星

English and passable Spanish

fart and cum mostly

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Native English. Did 5 years of French in highschool. I picked it back up recently and have been focusing more on colloquial French.

Fluent in English; A1 in Spanish, although I do better hearing it than speaking; and then B1 in German, which is what I’m currently learning.

English, and trying to learn German! Haven't gotten very far yet though. Did a tiny little bit of Japanese (before picking up German) but haven't gotten very far in that either.

Yet.

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English and French. I can understand a bit of Spanish, but learning French ruined my pronunciation. I can read Cyrillic, but know almost nothing about Russian.

Danish, English, bit of German and Spanish

Native English, very basic German from school.

I want to learn another language but can't decide which.

Native Norwegian, fluent English, proficient Danish and Swedish, intermediate German, basic mandarin.

Oh, and I know a lot of Spanish curse words. Probably enough to start a fight.

english and korean. i'd like to learn more but i'm too lazy tbh

most niche: studied ugaritic for 3 semesters. (not really a conversational skill but with the arabic and hebrew i know it made for a surprisingly nice "reading phoenician inscriptions at the museum"-day. see it is useful, father!)

Mi parolas Esperanton kaj La Anglan.

Hungarian, French, English at native and C2+

German at B1-B2

And I can somewhat understand written Spanish and Italian

German is my first language, and also my third. When I started school I had to learn English; over the years I didn’t speak much German and I have forgotten a lot. Now I have started to re-learn German again.

Also bits of French, Spanish, Esperanto, Latin, that I picked up or started learning over the years.

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).

Italian, Neapolitan, English fluently

• Mandarin Chinese. Native, but actually not that good. Can't speak Cantonese though
• English, with heavy "American" accent. Basically native-level fluency
• Japanese. Somewhere between B2-C1 based on test results but that was a long time ago. I can probably get to C1 if/when I have the time to practice
• French. Still actively learning, around A1 across the board

I also have some passive knowledge of Dutch and German... But really passive though

Since Lemmy apparently has a ton of people who are bilingual — how do I as a 31 year old man that knows enough Spanish to say 'Thank you, where is the bathroom?' and frequently watches anime in subtitles gain another language? I'm open to all suggestions, except bad ones. Specifically I am interested in learning Mandarin because I hate myself.