• Asclepiaz@lemmy.world
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    I have a 600 day streak on Duolingo in Japanese. So yeah I know English and JavaScript.

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    • Spanish (native)
    • Portuguese (fluent)
    • English (fluent)
    • Italian (understand 99% but speak very badly)
    • Russian (very basic and haven’t trained in years, but enough that I was able to tourist around Russia a decade ago)

    I’ve also studied some German but I don’t think it’s at any level worth mentioning. I can also say the phrase “Sorry I don’t speak X, do you speak English?” In:

    • German
    • Dutch
    • French
    • Finnish (I can also say the weather is bad/good and obviously Perkele hahah)

    Essentially every country that I’ve visited I can at least ask the person if they speak English, I consider it rude to ask that question in English.

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    It’s complicated. Short version: Portuguese and Italian.

    Long version:

    • Portuguese - native
    • Italian - have been learning it since a kid. It’s by no means native speaker level, but I feel rather confident in the language.
    • Venetian - I can speak some but I can’t write stuff in the language without pulling out a dic. My knowledge of the language is rusting and it pains me.
    • English - written only.
    • German - I can speak and write some. I use it mostly with my cat.
    • Latin - Classical pronunciation and rather decent vocab. Can read Caesar unaided without too much trouble, Cicero is another can of worms.
    • French - studied it a long, looooong time ago. Completely forgotten.
    • Russian, Ukrainian - sometimes I play a bit with both but I don’t speak or write either, I just know Cyrillic. I tend to use Cyrillic a fair bit for my personal notes but it’s always with Italian or Latin, it’s just so people don’t snoop on my notes.
    • Spanish - I never studied the language, my pronunciation is awful, but if I wasn’t able to read it I’d seriously question my own basic literacy for Portuguese and Italian.
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        Yup! And there’s some backstory for that.

        Back when we adopted Siegfrieda*, I was studying German; and I decided to speak with her in German for my own sake, it’s good for memorisation. But then I realised that she and Kika (our other cat) would pay attention to me separately depending on the language, so it was unexpectedly useful.

        *the name is also obviously related to that, but partially due to the meaning; it’s fitting for a cat that, when adopted, was beaten and starving and pregnant, and now only needs to bother about cardboard boxes and cups of yoghurt. It’s like she got her victory peace (Sieg Frieden).

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      anglijskij i russkij

      I love the fact that I can understand this fine without knowing Russian.

  • RedEye FlightControl@lemmy.world
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    FastIron, NOS, PowerCLI, BASH, PowerSHell, esxcli, ComWare, Enterasys/Extreme, enough of MSSQL, Python, C++ to be dangerous

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    Perfectly fluent: English

    Fluent at talking and reading, but can’t write (horrible at spelling): Telugu (in two very different dialects)

    Illiterate, but can understand everything spoken: Kannada

    Can hold tourist level conversations and can read: German and Hindi

    What is a tourist level conversation? Talk slowly, pronounce stuff weird, ask ppl to repeat some things if they go too fast or have an accent that’s different than the one I learned.

    I’ve noticed that I only know languages in the indo-European and Dravidian families. Deliberating between whether to improve my Kannada or to learn a new east or south east Asian language next to increase my language family count.

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    Only English fluently.

    I can speak a tiny bit of Spanish. Enough to order food, ask for directions etc.

    I can also sort of decipher the meaning of sentences in German, but not fast enough to have a conversation.

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    English natively, enough Spanish to make friends, enough French to stay out of trouble, and enough Italian to get into trouble. I also have some transactional German (groceries, tickets, coffee, etc). I’m American.

    It would take me a few months of daily practice to prepare and get comfortable with anything but Spanish. I haven’t studied the other languages formally, only independently, for travel.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    English and enough Spanish to get by if I was lost in Mexico.

    Though many words in many languages have a similar root word, so even signage in languages I don’t speak but at least use the same alphabet are usually understandable.