What languages can you speak?

Native spanish speaker, learned english good enough to maintain conversations online and one or two irl people I know so I like to think my level is high, but you guys can be the judges of that lol.

I've tried to dip my feet into japanese, italian and french too, but I haven't applied myself much to those, I want to have the time to do so though
Sounding like a high level to me! Japanese is such a grind. I spent a year with it and realized it was going to be a slog. Spanish is much more enjoyable to practice, study, and use. Definitely feels more comfortable and familiar to my English speaking brain lol. Plus I can actually use Spanish here in the U.S.
 
Greek (Native).

German. First foreign language.
Spent some years in Germany as a kid in late 80s-early 90s, so I learned the language much easier but have lost contact after the 90s.
Level is around C1-C2 in reading and listening comprehension, but I need practice with talking. Got Zentrale Mittelstuffe back in the 90s after returning to Greece. I remember reading classic German poetry and literature, which were my best times with the language.

English. This was my second foreign language. I studied in the UK so I understand it to C2 level. Got Proficiency and ILTS too prior to going to UK but still it did not prepare me for the true native UK English. Thanks to the internet, video games and watching subbed films on Greek TV, learning English was much easier. I even got delved in English literature, which helped me in learning.

French. Initially I was going to go to France in late 90s for studies but dropped it. As a result I was self studying for almost 20 years but I decided to enlist in a language school 12 years ago. Got A2 in 2013, stopped and then began again in 2020. Barely got B2 for adults a few years ago, so I stopped there. I can not read French literature but at least I can read BD and newspapers.

Japanese. Studied for 3 years, stopped due to difficulty. Can read simple texts and manga with furigana. Irony is that by the time I learned Japanese, I lost interest for manga, anime and Japanese text heavy video games
 
Greek (Native).

German. First foreign language.
Spent some years in Germany as a kid in late 80s-early 90s, so I learned the language much easier but have lost contact after the 90s.
Level is around C1-C2 in reading and listening comprehension, but I need practice with talking. Got Zentrale Mittelstuffe back in the 90s after returning to Greece. I remember reading classic German poetry and literature, which were my best times with the language.

English. This was my second foreign language. I studied in the UK so I understand it to C2 level. Got Proficiency and ILTS too prior to going to UK but still it did not prepare me for the true native UK English. Thanks to the internet, video games and watching subbed films on Greek TV, learning English was much easier. I even got delved in English literature, which helped me in learning.

French. Initially I was going to go to France in late 90s for studies but dropped it. As a result I was self studying for almost 20 years but I decided to enlist in a language school 12 years ago. Got A2 in 2013, stopped and then began again in 2020. Barely got B2 for adults a few years ago, so I stopped there. I can not read French literature but at least I can read BD and newspapers.

Japanese. Studied for 3 years, stopped due to difficulty. Can read simple texts and manga with furigana. Irony is that by the time I learned Japanese, I lost interest for manga, anime and Japanese text heavy video games
Yeah I also stopped learning Japanese because the fan translations in the repo did what I needed lmao. The juice wasn't worth the squeeze anymore.
 
russian (native), japanese a (n5-n4), english (fluent)
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I'm a native Spanish speaker.

I only learned the basics of English on school, and the rest are years of reading on internet, playing games, reading fan-translated manga and talking here, plus occasionally searching what I don't understand or using a machine translator.
Also now I can mostly understand oral English if it's pronounced clearly.

Recently I learned to somewhat read cyrillic thanks to an old russian dictionary.
 
Spanish- native speaker with a very strong Caribbean accent
English- i can speak it very well fludly learned it through video games and school
Japanese- beginner got interested in learning it i know basic words, frases, sentences, past and future tenses with particle words
 
Indonesian - Native speaker
English - Fluent? I'm used to it thanks to livestreaming and making YouTube videos. And most of my freelance days are with clients from US, so that helps
Javanese (not Japanese) - Basic/conversational. Basically one of many sub-languages of Indonesian.

Definitely want to learn Japanese though. I want to watch anime and playing JRPGs in Japanese, but not sure how to learn the language by myself.
 
English (US) - What I use by default when online.
Filipino/Tagalog - Taglish, really. Kapag nakaharap niyo ako in-person, ganito ako magsalita.

I'm interested in learning Japanese as a third language. I have a vocabulary of maybe 100-200 words, and I can't form coherent sentences yet. More recently, I downloaded the ebooks for learning hiragana/katakana from Tofugu, and I hope I can finally memorize the characters.
 
Spanish (mother tongue), English (very fluent).

I learned English from hearing the language in movies without subtitles (we had a Betamax tape in English called "The World According to Goofy" and I remember seeing Home Alone 2 and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid in English) and reading storybooks in English translated by my mom. This made it very easy to learn the rest of the basics in school. By I think 1999, I could read the text in Super Mario 64 and Toy Story 2. By 2004 I was interacting with people on the GameFAQs message boards (an experience I would not wish on any teenager).

I'd like to learn Japanese so I could be able to play Japanese games without the need for translation patches (although video game fan translations have gotten so much better in recent years that I don't mind relying on them for the time being).
 
Labhraim Gaeilge o dhuchas ach nil ochair AltGr ar mo eocharchlair :/ soibh nil me abalta baint usaid as na gutai fada :///

Labhraim an Bhearla freisin, toisc gur labhraitear i de gnath thart anseo :< agus labhraim an tSeapainis fresin ag leibheal N3.

Typing all this without being able to accent my vowels made me very upset :<
 
Solo hablo 3 idiomas, de 2 o más hablo poco.

1- Árabe (nativo).

2- Inglés (fluido. Aprendí hace 13 años).

3- Español (semifluido. Aprendí hace 2 años. Sigo aprendiendo).

Y un poco de italiano.
Yo creía que que eras de Latinoamérica o España por lo bueno que es tu español....
Jamás imaginé que fueras árabe
(Sin ofender)
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Sería interesante saber que porcentaje del foro puede entender conversaciones en otros idiomas además del inglés, más que nada para divertirse armando hilos en esos idiomas.

Personalmente hablo...

Español (nativo).

Inglés (autodidacta, fluido).

Polaco (principiante).

¿Ustedes?
Yo speak espanglish

My native idioma es el Spanish
Y puedo speak a little Ingles ya que I estudiando en academia de lenguage
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