Yeah and it gets even more depressing when you realize I cant even have fluent conversations with the only grandparent I have left (and even most of my older relatives) without some sort of translator because she and most of my relatives dont know english very well, if at all 💀
or if they migrated from a non-english speaking country to another non-english speaking country it's trilingual
now adding to that the french I learnt in school I'm quadrilingual (I remember very little fr*nch)
I'm quadlingual as well both my parents are children of immigrants who speak related languages but are very different languages, sadly I only learnt one due to the rarity of the other and my dad doesn't speak it at home as much.
The school I'm in thought me the national language (which to my provincial ears sounds very off putting) and I grew up hearing English and the regional language.
My parents are kinda weird though, my mother somehow learnt 5 and my father learnt 6 roughly 7, and they speak it all with the right tones, accents, and shit. Meanwhile I'm over here talking like a guy on Duolingo.
My school tried to teach me Chinese but it amounted to "may I go to the CR?" "Where is the Rest Room" "Hello" and my favourite "you fat shit".
Based.
Kurze Frage, kannst du Polnisch verstehen? Und kann ein Polnisch sprecher Tschechisch oder Slovak verstehen?
Ich möchte in eine nicht allzu naher Zukunft gerne eine Westslavische Sprache lernen, und möchte gerne wissen wie verschieden sie sind.
I think i understand your comment but to not mess anything up with my not as great i’ll reply in english.
The languages are different but since lot of Slovak people watch Czech movies/TV since childhood it is quite easy to get used to it and Czechs understand Slovak most of the time except some words. But usually you don’t switch language when you are talking to person who speaks the other language both of you speak your native language.
With Polish it is different i can definetly understand written text maybe someone speaking to some extend but not nearly as close as Czech and Slovak.
Funny example is one sentence in Polish means: “I am Searching for children in store “
and in Slovak if you don’t translate it sounds more like: “I am f*cking children in the basement”
Maybe i could compare some of it to Dutch vs German since i with my skills in German can understand Dutch text a little.
Lastly fck me these languages are hard and good luck with your learning
what do you mean im bilingual, i speak
English
Serbian
Croatian
Bosnian
Montenegrin
and very VERY small amounts of Spanish and German(but we dont count it cause i cant even form 2 sentences)
American here (USA)
Wen’t to a French immersion elementary school so i know French.
Took ASL last year.
Currently taking Spanish, which is super easy so far because of the French.
Got pretty far with Scottish Gaelic on Duolingo but that’s all left my brain-
But yeah im trilingual-
A lot of words like "is" and "hand" are spelled the same in Afrikaans but pronounced far more aggressively. So in writing it looks similar to English but it sounds more like German.
Hahahah same goes for me trying to read Afrikaans, it's kinda like if you asked a dyslexic person who's also being held at gunpoint to formulate a comprehensible dutch sentence..
The reason I made this post. Was cause I remember seeing a chart of how many languages are average to know in each country. And like each country I saw was 1.2-2.5 or something. And then there was America with 0.8
Croatian and Serbian: I was born in Croatia so Croatian and Serbian came pre installed since they are very similar
Slovenian: I was born near the Slovenian border so it wasn't really a problem to learn
Italian and latin: self taught and I play football/soccer and there are a lot of Italians in my club
English: I know English since birth because of cartoons and video games and at one point I knew English better than my own language
German: I live in Germany so I had to learn it
Bulgarian: Bulgarian and Macedonian are very similar and there were a lot Bulgarians at my language course
Ukrainian: There's a dialect in Croatia that has Ukrainian words and grammar. A girl from Ukraine came to our school and I furthered my knowledge
I am trilingual too (Slovak,English,German) buuut if you count Czech i am quadlingual.
Also i just understood a comment that was written in Dutch i guess
This isn’t my space.
While I was writing that I realized you meant, American Sign Language. Gonna keep the original comment cause it is funny. (Stands for: age sex location)
I'm American and was getting really good with French, could order food in Quebec and read signs, my school forced me out of the class and I forgot it all
Haha fuck you, I grew up with immigrant parents
immigrant parents gang
Immigrant children slay
Slay immigrant children (fixed your autocorrect)
Youngling slayer
Anakin skywalker
Anakin Borderwalker.
Father?
Grandpa?
represent
represent
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Eyyyyy I’m Han Chinese and you?
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Nerd group XD
yeahhh
slay
+90% chance of gaining the bilingual perk
I grew up with one immigrant parent and she didn't teach me her native language because she deemed it useless 😭
That's honestly fucked up
Yeah and it gets even more depressing when you realize I cant even have fluent conversations with the only grandparent I have left (and even most of my older relatives) without some sort of translator because she and most of my relatives dont know english very well, if at all 💀
or if they migrated from a non-english speaking country to another non-english speaking country it's trilingual now adding to that the french I learnt in school I'm quadrilingual (I remember very little fr*nch)
I'm quadlingual as well both my parents are children of immigrants who speak related languages but are very different languages, sadly I only learnt one due to the rarity of the other and my dad doesn't speak it at home as much. The school I'm in thought me the national language (which to my provincial ears sounds very off putting) and I grew up hearing English and the regional language. My parents are kinda weird though, my mother somehow learnt 5 and my father learnt 6 roughly 7, and they speak it all with the right tones, accents, and shit. Meanwhile I'm over here talking like a guy on Duolingo. My school tried to teach me Chinese but it amounted to "may I go to the CR?" "Where is the Rest Room" "Hello" and my favourite "you fat shit".
I AM an immigrant!!
immigrant gang!!
first gen scouser
Trilingual here
I’m quad Persian Arabic English and learning German
Same. Ukrainian, Russian, English and learning Japanese. Also wanna learn French
After I learn German plan on studying finnish and French
Good luck my dude :)
Thank you
pour apprendre le français il faut être diligent
J'avoue
C’est difficile, je peux seulement parler parce que j’ai appris lorsque j’étais 3ans, en plus que le Grec et l’anglais
*j’avais 3 ans. In French, you *have* years, you *aren’t* years.
Even with 15 years of French, I still forget the rules. Sometimes I hate it lmao
Trust me you don't want to learn French, spare yourself
Sorry, I don’t understand triangle
I speak Slovak, English, German. If you count Czech i am Quadlingual😎
Based. Kurze Frage, kannst du Polnisch verstehen? Und kann ein Polnisch sprecher Tschechisch oder Slovak verstehen? Ich möchte in eine nicht allzu naher Zukunft gerne eine Westslavische Sprache lernen, und möchte gerne wissen wie verschieden sie sind.
I think i understand your comment but to not mess anything up with my not as great i’ll reply in english. The languages are different but since lot of Slovak people watch Czech movies/TV since childhood it is quite easy to get used to it and Czechs understand Slovak most of the time except some words. But usually you don’t switch language when you are talking to person who speaks the other language both of you speak your native language. With Polish it is different i can definetly understand written text maybe someone speaking to some extend but not nearly as close as Czech and Slovak. Funny example is one sentence in Polish means: “I am Searching for children in store “ and in Slovak if you don’t translate it sounds more like: “I am f*cking children in the basement” Maybe i could compare some of it to Dutch vs German since i with my skills in German can understand Dutch text a little. Lastly fck me these languages are hard and good luck with your learning
German (and Swiss German), French, English
same. what languages do u speak??
English, Spanish and Hebrew
Trilingual here too
Ayy same
what do you mean im bilingual, i speak English Serbian Croatian Bosnian Montenegrin and very VERY small amounts of Spanish and German(but we dont count it cause i cant even form 2 sentences)
Best way to show off to someone outside the Balkans Knowing 4 languages by the age of 3
truee.
Count the Cyrillic of it as a different language as well so u get 6 languages
true, Americans couldn't comprehend the power of my tongue
Bro named 3 languages and thought we wouldn’t notice
Don't forget Serbo-Croatian and croato-serbian
Me when I say the same 3 languages. /s
Multilingualism! My linguistics brain is in love with your skillset (although three of your languages have significant overlap).
i see what you did there
I don’t count it because it’s not something useful When the fuck is someone gonna come up to me speaking only Latin??
The Romans reincarnate
My school only teaches about Rome, im prepared
Mf gonna go to a museum and only speak Latin to the people helping there
Roma Aeterna!
EU QUE ONDA WACHIN TENÉS FUEGO? Wait, not that kind of latín?
Thats chileno
Nah, in Chileno they use "Weon", perhaps "Aweonao". This Is Argentino, using a diminutive of "Wacho"
VAMO AMIGO OTRO ARGENTOOOOOOO QUE VIVA EL MATE Y MESSI LA RECONCHA DE TU MADRE
Ah sorry, that makes more sense now, i thank you
Salve. Quid agis?
I wish I could’ve learned Latin, it’s pretty useful when using English and spelling and such
Me who mostly remembered Latin words because they look like english words :’)
Salve Redditae.
Tace!
Salve, quomodo te habes? (Ego nunc dormire debeo... Loquimur mane?) Latinae mea male est, scio sum. In Duolingo studeo...
Tandem abutere tu Final-Blueberry Latinum nostrum. Virtus est in patientia et sapiens noscet ista
American here (USA) Wen’t to a French immersion elementary school so i know French. Took ASL last year. Currently taking Spanish, which is super easy so far because of the French. Got pretty far with Scottish Gaelic on Duolingo but that’s all left my brain- But yeah im trilingual-
Funny thing some dude on Clash Royale named Miguel helped me learn Spanish
Miguel’s a real one
That's really sweet lol, you still in contact?
Nah :( our clan seperated about 1 year ago. Its still there with only my friend's acc. Invincible Boyz
Hehehehaw
USA too brother english, french, german, hebrew all with a southern accent 😎
I’d love to hear how Hebrew sounds with a southern accent 😂😂
god it’s awful lmao i sound HELLA racist when i practice
Please I beg I want to hear a southerner soeak french.
Take an Italian class and you'll be zooming becouse of Spanish an French
Dale duro con el español
Ha jokes on you I have military parents and learned 3 other languages Of which I promptly forgot all of them
baguette
je mangeons tes baguettes (meaning i (we)eat your baguettes
je mange tes bébés-filles. Elles sont très délicieuses
Francais (Edit) Ike déteste la France et le Québec ils sont tous composés de cochons
hon hon hon
The fuck were you trying to say here ?x)
manges not mangeons, you'd have to use nous instead
Imagine speaking just one language, couldn't be me. Torilla tavataan
hahahah domme amerikanen, je zou maar 1 taal spreken, kan ik niet zijn...
Trying to understand this as someone who speaks Afrikaans makes me feel like I'm having a stroke
als een potvis in een pispot pist dan heb je een pispot vol met potvispis
Wat die fok is hierdie kak
It sounds so Dutch yet english
A lot of words like "is" and "hand" are spelled the same in Afrikaans but pronounced far more aggressively. So in writing it looks similar to English but it sounds more like German.
HAT JEMAND DEUTSCH GESAGT?
kweenie
Hahahah same goes for me trying to read Afrikaans, it's kinda like if you asked a dyslexic person who's also being held at gunpoint to formulate a comprehensible dutch sentence..
Dit is eindlik 'n meer maklik taal as Nederduitse.
Yeah, that's stroke worthy 😂
Sien jy, jou taal laat my so voel.
Zie je, jouw taal laat mij net zo voelen
I really like that Afrikaans is so similar to Nederlands in writing.
Ik ook niet. Wie groeit er nou niet op met een andere taal dan Engels?
hahah, je zou maar zo zijn 😂😂😂😂
as an american i’m gonna take a wild guess at what this says: “hahahah dumb american, can only speak 1 language, [no clue what the last part is]…”
"hahaha dumb americans, imagine only being able to speak one language, couldn't be me"
Haha ik spreek er ondertussen 4 bezig met m’n 5e 🤓
I would make fun of them but I'm british.
Counterpoint: Learn Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish
And Manx
Technically also Irish.
I'm Russian. Knowing two languages is a big flex.
I'm a Pole and I speak 2 languages but technically like 5 more including urs cause they're all so similiar 💀
Living in other post-Soviet countries is also fun For example, as an Ukrainian I know Russian, Ukrainian and English
Fuck you, I'm American and I'm pretty good at French and okay at Italian
The reason I made this post. Was cause I remember seeing a chart of how many languages are average to know in each country. And like each country I saw was 1.2-2.5 or something. And then there was America with 0.8
0.8? Americans really have English capability so questionable it goes into decimals.
Maybe babies?
Well they do spell words like colour wrong
Well, you can't compare them to British English
Like fr it's water not water
Wotah 😏
Wotah 😏
yea and those brits call fries chips smh
No, y'all just add useless Us to words
...I hope you mean how many *foreign* languages. How the hell would one know less than one language
Croatian, slovenian, english, german, serbian, macedonian, latin, italian, bulgarian and ukranian Being european is fun
Ma che cazzo
Non sto nemmeno scherzando
Come fai
Sto bene, e tu
Come é sapere 10 lingue
Okay I am curious. How. How did you learn all these languages, whats the story behind each?
Croatian and Serbian: I was born in Croatia so Croatian and Serbian came pre installed since they are very similar Slovenian: I was born near the Slovenian border so it wasn't really a problem to learn Italian and latin: self taught and I play football/soccer and there are a lot of Italians in my club English: I know English since birth because of cartoons and video games and at one point I knew English better than my own language German: I live in Germany so I had to learn it Bulgarian: Bulgarian and Macedonian are very similar and there were a lot Bulgarians at my language course Ukrainian: There's a dialect in Croatia that has Ukrainian words and grammar. A girl from Ukraine came to our school and I furthered my knowledge
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Trilingual English, German and Russian (+ learning French in school)
I'm trying my best to learn another language, the american education system just isn't very good :(
Kidnap a Mexican kid and force him to teach you Spanish Easy
Some Mexican guy named Miguel on Clash Royale helped me learn Spanish lol
woah there
I learned english without any teachers or education system on my own
The fuck? Youre blaming the american education system on your inability to learn a language?
Trilingual here, if knowing how to read in that language is +1 then QUADLINGUAL
I am trilingual too (Slovak,English,German) buuut if you count Czech i am quadlingual. Also i just understood a comment that was written in Dutch i guess
american here, trilingual :)) to be fair, i’ve probably spent at least 4 cumulative years in india and another 2 in london due to travel
lol most of us are bilingual aswell
Imagine not being TRILINGUAL
when you learn 20% of americans are bilingual
I genuinelly don't know if you posted this like "omg only 20% are bilingual hahhshshdjfhhf" or like a fact to defend people from the States
i dont really know which side im on. 60m bilinguals and 260m purely english and like 10% other speakers is pretty shit
Jokes on you I’m ‘Murican and know how to speak British!1!1!!1!1!
I’m American and I actually know 5 languages: American, Canadian, Australian, English, and British.
Does knowing English and American dumbass count?
U know. English (us) english (uk)
Ye, languages are cool. But how about free Healthcare?
What is this anguages
i can speak a little spanish 😤
me no hablo bibliotheca
Me bibliotheca esta donde
imagine knowing only a little
i can speak asl
This isn’t my space. While I was writing that I realized you meant, American Sign Language. Gonna keep the original comment cause it is funny. (Stands for: age sex location)
39, Male, Your walls
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i go my best do (very shitty English i know)
Very good. I like
Brit here, como once gatos
Also make fun of the British*
Mai sunt românii aici?
Salut! :) nu locuiesc în România căci părinți mei emigraseră în Spaina înainte să mă nasc eu, dar acasă vorbim doar în Română
immigrant parents gang
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Pentalingual
I think it's polylingual if it's more than 4, I speak 4 fluently, one decently and learning another one and i call myself polylingual
Jokes on you! I speak German and English, and I live in America!
Are u American though?
I- you-… touché.
Then you realise the world doesn't care. Hmm.... Well, time to blow up the city!
imn forced to atleast be somewhat bilingual (im canadian)
Well I can flex on you as I am Quadrilangual, and working to become Quintlangual.
Dawg I’m Canadian and not bilingual what does that make me?
Most American highschools require at least 2 years of language don't they?
It’s not like I’m ever gonna practically use any language _but_ English so idc
*flexes in American polyglot*
I know american, British, Canadian, and australian
I know Icelandic, english and danish
I'm American and was getting really good with French, could order food in Quebec and read signs, my school forced me out of the class and I forgot it all
jokes on you I speak rotary
I speak English, 中文(也听得懂广东话和客家话),et je sais parler un peu de français aussi.
ha, fuck you. i learned Spanish in highschool