As proposed in the Non-English content of posts topic, here’s a thread were we can share our native language and all related stuff
I just make a start:
My native language is German. I also speak English and try to write my posts without translation tool support. That might lead to weird grammar sometimes, but works out most of the time. Reading English is no big deal. Beside English I can understand a little French and Italian (and Latin and Ancient Greek, but who cares… )
PS: Since there is nothing like an off-topic category, its in site feedback now…
I speak australian, also known as objectively the best english with a funny accent.
As a typically English speaker, I don’t speak any other languages, though not for lack of trying, rather a lack of focusing on a single language long enough to speak more than a basic sentence.
I’ve learnt English in school and kept practicing English through programming and by watching movies and TV shows in English. This makes me an awful speaker, but I’m good at understanding spoken and written English. Hopefully I’m not a bad writer either.
I’ve also learnt German in school, but… I was really bad and didn’t practice after. Now I sometimes need it for my job, more than English actually . So I’m starting to learn again.
And I’ve learnt Esperanto during the pandemic. My understanding skills are about as good as in English, but I’m a better speaker I think.
Slovak here. After years and years being exposed to English and even working for an US company for a long time now, you can still see my slavic-influenced bastardized version of English
Brazilian here, so my native language is Portuguese. I’m fluent in English and can understand Spanish.
I took some French in school, enough to say “je ne parle pas français”.
My native language is Czech. On the internet I mostly write in English, only occasionally using translation tools to overcome vocabulary deficiencies, but never to translate whole sentences nor posts.
I can also understand a tiny bit of German (need to get to train more, though, and to expand my miserable vocabulary) and an even tinier amount of Italian (I’ve gone through a short basics course at uni; basically zero skill there, but would like to resume in the future if time permits).
Also, it doesn’t really count (because it’s almost the same language as Czech), but I work at a Slovak company, speaking with Slovaks most of the day.
I’m from Switzerland’s french speaking part. Born and raised avec la langue de Molière mais des fois quand j’ai bu un verre de trop j’ai un accent de gros bourrin des montagnes valaisannes.
Like many people in the region I’ve learn German at school for more than 10 years and somehow still manage to bearly speak the language.
Learnt English at school, then while traveling, watching movies, for programming, as principal language in a past relationship and nowaday I probably read and write much more English than french.
I used to know a bit of Portuguese and a tad of Italien, but these are currently on a hard decay trajectory
Polish native speaker here! Apart from English I learned some German at school, and to this day I think it’s one of the most beautiful languages. Though tbh my German skills have gone really rusty from not using it for a very long while…
German here, to be exact Southern Bavaria, also known as an area where if one would speak the dialect, other Germans not from the area would have no chance to understand it.
fun fact: Bavarian has one less time form than standard German (there’s no “Präteritum”, also known as first past tense).
Besides that I have at this point a decent knowledge of English thanks to pretty much entirely YouTube. But that doesn’t mean that I like the language (and no, that’s not thanks to school; this started way after I managed to become decently good at it and past getting out of school).
Born in Chile, so Spanish is my native tongue. Came from Swiss roots, so I did speak a bit of German as I was growing up. Learned English in high-school and Uni, and that has been my main language for years now. Polished my French well enough to pass my Swiss nationality test (yay!). Understand enough Italian because… Latin lingering at the back of my head? Learned enough Dutch since I have been living in the Netherlands for 12 years – but that chased away what little German remained in my brain.
From Miami (USA), but English is my third language because I grew up speaking Spanish and Swedish. Unfortunately, I lost my Swedish and I’m not at native proficiency in Spanish, but I pick up new languages relatively easily.
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. So I’m starting to learn again.