I’m living in Germany near Dortmund, so German is my native language. I can read English and talk and write about tech topics in English. My understanding of spoken dialects is quite limited, and in everyday situations I sometimes get stuck while talking, because I just can’t find the word I need.
I’m not using AI for translation and I won’t change that. I sometimes need to lookup single words or phrases.
I’m another German from Southern Bavaria. While my native language is german, I think in english about programming topics, because almost everything I read about programming topics is in english. I sometimes use translation tools, but most of the time to translate my own english into german to see if my english makes any sense.
My native language is Finnish but I would never use AI to translate anything into Finnish since the quality is usually really bad. I even have my phone use English to avoid having to read embarrassingly bad translations. I can read and listen to books also in English and Swedish, and on a good day I can read French.
Good old Urban Dictionary has always been a life saver
I’m from Germany (North-Rhine Westfalia, Rheinland).
Native language is German.
I learned English at school.
First, thanks for the interest.
Italian here, so my native language is Italian.
But I can also speak English and Spanish, looking forward to learn Russian, but I’m pretty bad at learning new languages so I really doubt I will succeed (not stopping me from trying).
On my first read of the title I thought it was regarding programming languages used before Zig hahaha
Serbian native speaker here, I understand German, and learned some bit of Italian in school. I also started focusing on Russian for my love of the language, but never got into it really. Had some parts of my life when I needed to understand and use a bit of Hungarian as well. Earlier. I discovered that I’m good with languages that change meaning by the intonation of the word, I forgot what group of languages they belong to. Chinese is in that category. Spent some time with it but never stuck
first is Chinese,and some English
I am a native English speaker. Born and raised in the USA (Arkansas). I got the opportunity to live in Ukraine for 2 years, so I am fluent in Russian as well (although I need to practice it more).
With my family, I am currently learning Spanish.
I’m brazilian, so i speak brazilian portuguese.
My english is pretty average, i can communicate mostly using keywords and a few other things.
I probably would have a change to understand your spoken dialect. My native language is swiss-german.
Grüße aus Australien! It’s cool to see many German speakers here. My native language is English. I learnt German for a few years at school, although only enough to have basic conversations - and I’m definitely rusty now.
As a fellow Aussie, can confirm. Bogan accents are peak comedy.
Native: German (Saxony represent - although I live mostly in Berlin nowadays), communication: English (or rather ‘programmer pidgin’ I guess lol).
I also had Russian in school, but always loathed it and learned only enough to stay afloat (Russian was the required foreign language in the East German school system, with English as secondary option) I learned English mostly through MTV and computing though, but kudos to my English teacher, he was spectacular. Interestingly English - not Russian - was also the computer lingua franca in the GDR.
I know this, but I’m not sure if I can trust what I find there… Would US users also recommend it?
English was my first, and still preferred language. I grew up in Greece so I was pretty good at Greek when I was younger but that has sadly faded because I never use it, still understand a fair bit and can converse casually. Have lived in Sweden since I was 11 so my second language is Swedish at this point. Tried to learn Spanish on Duolingo for many years until I realized that it wasn’t teaching me the language, just a bunch of words, and most of them didn’t stick.