How many languages do you speak? How well do you speak them, and can you write in them too?
I speak 3 (English, German, Japanese), can read 4ish (English, German, Medical Latin, and Dutch) and fluent in swearing in a shitton more.
English and German, proficient. Spanish, everyday things (I live in Spain). French - 2-3 years school knowledge and a little practice in Liége. I also speak bullshit but I really despise it.
I can understand Dutch (but I think everyone can).
And I did try to learn Hebrew a long long time ago in an Israeli Kibbutz. But that is all gone.
I find Dutch easy to read but hard as shit to hear/speak because they pronounce germanic looking words soooooo differently!
English and binary.
10 types of people in this world...
2: American English and British English
Ah, simplified and traditional.
English--my native language, German--conversational, movies, tv, news, but not native proficiency; rather rusty after 30+ years since I was in Germany as an exchange student. I have acquired a baby smidge of Spanish over the years. I might comprehend an eighth of what I hear. Meh. But I love the musicality and rhythm of Spanish.
4...Portuguese...English...Spanish...Italian... Trying to learn French...
English and German fluently, Spanish upper intermediate, Latin the tiny bit I remember from school.
Failed attempts so far to learn Farsi (????? ??????), Japanese (I can remember, like, 3 Kanji), and Bulgarian.
Ugh this site apparently does not allow arabic or other non-latin characters
You @ScientistV had the advantage of growing up in Holland. I have a 92 you Dutch friend who watches the news each morning swapping between English, French, German, Dutch, Indonesian, Malay, Thai and for his laughs Australian. He recently had great pleasure telling a Malaysian exchange student that the local hospital's nurse in charge of her training and standing next to her was an ignorant red necked moron who would not be employed but for her cunnilingual abilities on the hospital matron. Naturally he told her these facts ts in Malay. Were your parents multilingual speakers in the home? Pardon my ignorant monolingual ability but what is a "shitton more" ?
I am American, I chose to pursue languages and am quasi-ok at teaching myself basics. My family is not multilingual, but my dad tries to learn Spanish and some Italian, my sister knows some Italian (oddly, I know more Italian but never took courses whereas she did.)
Shitton is a kenning for shit and ton, as in “a lot.”
I speak the queens and I'm not great at that.
And profanity
well of course lol
I have enough trouble with English.
Although, I can get myself drunk, swear at you, and get myself in trouble, in French, Spanish, and Italian.
Hahaha