@earthfail @imohag9 my beloved brothers 
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Brazilian Portuguese. Living in the Amazon, in Brazil.
Because of my job (totally unrelated to programming), I write and speak English daily, but am not an expert.
Speak and understand some Spanish, enough to engage into a shallow conversation.
Sadly enough, I do not speak Kalapalo (a native indigenous people/language in central-west of Brazil).
Here and there I think about learning a new language, but I will only do something I will deal with on a regular basis. Maybe Koine Greek (the assembly language of the New Testament).
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I am a native Chinese speaker and have studied English in school. My English skills mainly help me compare the original text with LLM translations to make sure I can spot any places where the LLM translation might not convey the original meaning.
Directly reading and writing large chunks of English is still a bit difficult for me, but when I write in English, I rely more on machine translation and my own proofreading rather than LLMs to prevent them from randomly adding things I don’t want to express.
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My mother tongue is Vietnamese but I have been using English much more often than Vietnamese in my daily life so that I prefer using English for pretty much everything.
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Quebecer here, so native French. It’s a version that forked from France a few hundred years ago, so most French speakers around the world will stuggle with the accent.
I use English daily and do most of computer related work—programming or otherwise—in English.
I have learned Japanese for a while. Judging from my kids, I’m better than a 4 years old boy, but worst than an 8 years old.
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I am South African and my native language is Afrikaans.
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French here. I travelled to Québec 10 years ago. I found it fairly easy to understand despite the accent, apart from a bit of vocabulary and the lack of french accent on english words - but it’s another story as soon as you drift away from the big cities.
Once I took a train from lac Saint-Jean to Montréal, and speaking with some the locals felt really surreal - you can feel in your bones the guy in front of you is speaking french, but your brain just doesn’t parse it. Anyway it was a great experience, really enjoyed my time there.
Apart from that, french is my native language, learned english in school, studied in Wales for a year then kept learning english working in academia. I can also understand a tiny bit of spanish, and made several attempts at Esperanto (first one during the pandemic).
FYI: I changed the term “origin” in the topic title to “living-area”. Since this is solely about the area someone is living at the moment, if they want reveal it maybe to get in contact with other Zig users from the same area.
It wasn’t meant to include things like ethnical, religious, cultural or any other kind of ancestry/group affiliation.
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may not have been intended, but those are still areas people have community with. It’s not bad at all that it is being talked about.
Yeah, and its totally fine if people want talk about it. Only the term “origin” carries a meaning of ancestry/descent as far as I understand it and thats not what I meant initially. I simply had something like “current residence” in mind. But of course, since I’m no native English speaker, please correct me if I’m wrong 
Native Dutch speaker, got the customary English, French and German in school (and Latin and Greek). Studied Japanese half a lifetime ago at the university and picked up Spanish while working and living in Spain (Gran Canaria).
Spent a couple of years in the USA, so some of my English friends now complain about my choice of words and accent in English…
Living in Germany now, I can understand most things and express myself without having to translate. Except of course for bureaucratic correspondence (but even German native speakers seem to have problems with that).
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Native language is German, knowing English.
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unintelligible bureaucracy is a long-derived German cultural tradition 
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English. Raised in Georgia, USA. (Remember the laser show at Stone Mountain, Coke museum? 
) Los Angeles now.
English and Chinese, though I can’t write Chinese without the help of a translator. I’ve spent most of my life in California. Live in the SF Bay Area.
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Another German here
I live in Berlin, but grew up in southern Bavaria, so there is a chance I could understand your dialect @KilianHanich
I work in an international team for 6 years now, where I speak English most of the time. Still, my english is not the best. Reading and listening is not an issue, but my written/spoken English always feels broken. Still, I only use translation tools for work sometimes.
I also understand a bit Italian.
Chinese here, living in Berlin for half an year, landed a software dev job recently, would love to connect @lufe
I speak good enough English for work, currently learning German
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palantir taking notes in this thread all yall getting profiled 
am georgian, speak georgian english spanish, used to know russian as a kid but forgot it, learning german japanese
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Nah, I bet the internal Big Tech AI is already good enough to guess the native language from the bad English some of us write, literally translating words and grammar rules
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Native German as well, living close to Heidelberg.
I know English and a bit of French (just the basics). My day-to-day language in a work context is English since three years since I work on an international company with it’s headquarters based in London.