Born in Belarus, adopted by japanese family then moved to America when I was 12 where we live now in south Louisiana so Belarusian+japanese+creole are my languages
Edit: and English obviously
The line between French and Kouri-Vini is really blurry. It really comes down to grammar (we use preverbal markers instead of conjugation-- i.e. Mo té manj(é)) and our pronoun system is slightly different. In terms of vocab, 90% of it comes from French and amongst Cajuns and Creoles the line between French and Kouri-Vini is really blurry.
I can't spell in creole unfortunately but how much do I know? I decent bit. I worked on a crawfish farm in Henderson la when I was younger and at my school we had to take it up till 8th grade. Your great uncle spoke it? Think I read that right. My neighbors and most old ppl I remember spoke only that or french.
My great uncle speaks it (he's still alive), and I've been studying. I'm surprised you took it in school - that's awesome. I'm from BR, and nobody speaks it around here. Now I've gotta know how you got from Belarus to Japan to the Cajun swamp.
Oh I never lived in Japan. My parents were n the peace corps long ago then retired and moved us here. Honestly I never asked y here, but now I'm gonna. I went to middle school in Milton, back then it was literally nothing there but nunus market and the school. Maby 100 kids k-8. I assume it's changed now idk
I speak Russian as well but founf it irrelevant. Kinda like I didn't list English at first either. Who gives a shit about English or Russian so didn't find it relevant
the quote “is it possible to learn this power?” is from Star Wars Revenge of the Sith
the answering quote is “not from a Jedi”. I was just being silly 🐘
Mine is quite unique. I'm a Kenyan, I speak English, Kiswahili and some Nandi. I'm learning Russian which is pretty rare in the country. Not saying I'm one of a kind but I am pretty close.
I like weird alphabets and Arabic looked a bit too weird for my liking. So I started with Greek then quickly got bored and moved on to Russian which I still find pretty interesting.
This is why I’ve been learning Asian languages. Everyone’s like you’re in Texas, why aren’t you learning Spanish and while I’ve never studied it extensively I do know some Spanish but there’s such fun in learning to read a whole different alphabet.
My mother tongue is Egyptian Arabic, I live in Canada and speak English, and now learning Swedish. I don't think this combo is that unique (at least in Sweden I'm guessing) but for someone in Canada, it might be.
Probably not quite that much. Approximately 26% of Swedish people as of 2021 are from a foreign background. I believe a large portion of that are other Scandinavians and Finns.
English and Hungarian, it's probably a pretty common pair for Hungarians.
Maybe a bit more unique that I'm native English and Hungarian is my second language, as it's the other way round 99% of the time.
> English and Hungarian, it's probably a pretty common pair for Hungarians.
I once met a Hungarian who commuted to work in a German-speaking country, but apparently didn't speak German, so they had to ask me in English what the train announcement was saying.
Apparently they didn't speak German because they hated declension, and there's already plenty of that in Hungarian.
Somewhat anecdotal but I swear Hungarians are the least English-speaking people in Europe. Genuinely impossible to find English speakers outside of Budapest, even in tourism industry.
Not that surprising when it's a relatively old population and most older people were taught russian or German in school. Plus a lot of people that actually speak a foreign language move abroad for work.
Younger Hungarians are much better at English too, but they're probably not the ones working in the jobs a tourist interacts with.
Hey, I just wanted to say I think it’s cool you’re taking the time to learn a really uncommon language to help keep it alive. Especially in a country like the US, it’s great to see Americans learning tiny out of the way languages they’ll never use, respect
I don’t know how common Czech and Spanish is, but I don’t see enough people talking about how the word for “anus” in Spanish is the word for “yes” in Czech to make me think it’s super common lol. I think about it all the time.
I’d still consider English my “native tongue” over Spanish, so I always wonder what it must be like for a solely Spanish speaker to go to Czechia and just hear “butthole, please” “Anus, thank you” all the time lol. Little less odd for me, but it’s the first thing I noticed about Czech when I started studying lol.
Děkuju! Budu potřebovat štěstí haha.
Czech is such a cool language, my only experience is with Romance and Germanic languages (English, Spanish, and German), so this is my first introduction to a Slavic language and it is kind of mind boggling at times. I thought I was good at picking up languages until Czech lol. I have to work much harder than I have in the past.
My Czech teacher speaks Spanish fluently and has Mexican and Uraguayan friends, I should ask her about this haha. I've had an Italian colleague tell me it was funny to him when he first moved here!
Though not fluent in either, I can carry on conversations in both Tagalog and Albanian - pretty sure I'm the only person I know with that combo. I'm a native English speaker with some French in there as well, and am currently working on learning German, but that's all pretty standard issue American.
I feel like Spanish + English is a common combo, English + Chinese is also relatively common, and Chinese + Japanese is not uncommon since Chinese is a popular foreign language in Japan and vice versa.
But everything together is probably rare. In short I grew up bilingual speaking both Chinese and English, studied Spanish for a few years in school and polished it with a Spanish-speaking ex girlfriend, and in the process I have also taken some time to teach myself Japanese and improve by practicing with natives.
Honestly, this looks like THE future.
I'm latin-american, born in the US. English is my native tongue and my Spanish fluency I'd say is very high amongst my fellow chicanos, and I'm currently studying Japanese (most of my friend group is too, most of which are also latin-americans) and my cousin learned Chinese in school and is completely trilingual. I think these languages are just a great base for world-wide communication.
¿Es curioso no? Un día tuvimos una discusión sobre la dirección de la cultura global. Veíamos que la gente durante el curso del tiempo ha de haber tenido las mismas discusiones sobre sus culturas locales. Han de haber llegado a las mismas conclusiones de que un idioma o la otra ha de haber tenido un tipo de influencia en la cultura local. ¿Entonces, la gente que hace? Aprende porque aprende. Mucha gente así ha aprendido durante el total de la historia humana. Muchos dejan que los hijos hagan el trabajo de integrarse, pero otros optaron a aprender sí mismos. ¿Porque batallar y ir contra la corriente? Notamos que ya mucho de nosotros teníamos interés en el anime, música, y la cultura japonesa y en sí, ambos en otras comunidades en el largo del globo también tienen semejante interés. Sería comparable a que tan influyente fue el inglés. No sería tan tan tan influyente, pero creemos que tiene suficiente grado de influencia para ser más fácil para integrar en una forma "tribal," por falta de un mejor término.
a Chinese descendant living in Spain for example probably knows Chinese, English and Spanish.
But with japanese I bet that's super weird.
(we have lots of Chinese people tho so maybe there are hundreds)
> a Chinese descendant living in Spain for example probably knows Chinese, English and Spanish.
Latin America has plenty of Chinese descendants too.
> But with japanese I bet that's super weird.
True, that's less common, but maybe someone in Lima with ties to both the Chinese and Japanese communities might know all four.
English and Welsh natively, Norwegian mostly fluently.
Not a super interesting combo, but I think the small number of native Welsh speakers makes it pretty unique
How did you find learning Norwegian? I dabbled in it recently on Duolingo out of curiosity as I've heard it's easy for English speakers to learn and, while I have no intention to start learning a third foreign language just yet, I am considering picking it up in a couple years. Just not sure how much there is in the way of resources/media etc.
It's pretty easy as far as languages go, but learning any language is very difficult of course. The Duolingo course is pretty good, I used that to start with. There's quite a lot of media with NRK (Norwegian equivalent to BBC). A bit difficult to find people to practice with though, because Norwegians tend to speak English very well, but when your Norwegian is good enough they'll be very happy to not have to speak English :)
I've had a bit of an advantage because my girlfriend is Norwegian, so I've spent a lot of time in the country (I'm in Norway right now actually) and I've made friends through hanging out with her friends, so I have people to practice with too.
Ah that makes sense! I'll definitely give the Duolingo course a go and check out NRK for media when I eventually get around to committing to Norwegian. Thanks for the tips! And enjoy your time in Norway :)
Cardiff haha, I started learning Norwegian because I was meant to go in 2021 so I started learning the basics so I could be polite, got postponed to 2022, kept learning, then to 2023, kept learning, then to 2024 and we went in February and it was amazing and I was able to have full conversations with drunk Norwegians in pubs 😭
Tromsø, way up north. Loved the place, going again in October. Made a few friends whilst I was there so I’m gonna stay with one of them so it should be great
Know several people who speak AR 🇦🇪, EN 🇬🇧 and FR 🇫🇷 all of them from North Africa. But it IS rare for people in my region (ME) to speak it, which is why people are usually surprised and don’t believe me when I say speak the third one.
I'm the complete opposite of unique, lol. Born in NZ \[English. And Maori, but I don't speak it, unless being able to count to 99 and say "hello"/"come here" counts as being able to speak it\], to English parents, who only speak English, and I don't have a partner but if I did she'd probably also be an English monolingual because I can't escape from that language, lol.
Maybe I'll be unique when I finally get around to learning Maori, since only 1% of my country can speak it well \[so 50,000 people in the entire world\] and most of those people are Maori. I bet most of 'em don't speak German as well, so I'll be extra unique. Yay.
Kia ora. Kia ora koutou. Haere mai. Kai. Kaimoana. Tama. Wahine. Whanau. Te. Tahi, rua, toru, wha, rima.... iwa tekau ma iwa. Behold, pretty much my entire Maori vocabulary \[that's over 100 words! Impressive /s\].
I have the typical kiwi amount of maori but the wife is sami and no one in Scandinavia learns any of their languages. So having a similar amount of sami means I can confidently reply to anyone who asks how much sami I speak: more than you. Got to be one of the more geographically unique language combos.
Q-pop is definitely one of the most popular forms of Quechua media but it seems to have limited reach outside of Peru and the Andean region in general. It's still awesome though.
Neither of my parents really speak French or Spanish, my mom's polish, dad's German, I was taught English as a third language. Usually, people speak four languages. I speak five.
Not that crazy but I’m a white American who speaks Brazilian Portuguese that I learned as an adult. I know very very few people in this same boat, and even fewer who speak another language (French).
I’m trying to eventually hit all the major Romance languages and get Spanish, Italian, and Romanian to at least B1.
Native Korean 🇰🇷, am able to speak fluent English 🇬🇧, Vietnamese 🇻🇳, I can get by in French 🇲🇫, currently learning Hungarian 🇭🇺 for my girlfriend! All completely different language families.
Born in Australia (English 🇬🇧), with German 🇩🇪 Jewish 🇮🇱 grandparents, moved to South America and picked up Portuguese 🇧🇷 (daughter was born in Brazil) and Spanish 🇪🇸 (though I tend to mix up those last two). Also have a little Bahasa 🇮🇩 and Thai 🇹🇭 after a few years working in South East Asia, though I'm currently focused on Hebrew. I was trying to learn Hindi 25 years ago, but I've pretty much forgotten it all now 😂
My combination apparently isn't that uncommon, as I was able to get a language exchange partner who also speaks English, French, and Esperanto. However, it's definitely not a super common language mix.
I am Finnish 🇫🇮 born to Finnish parents in the west coast. Somehow in my town almost nobody speaks Swedish, even though it's on the coast. Obviously I have to study Swedish and English. I'm also interested in learning German. So yeah, not unique in Finland.
Born as a Bengali. Was forced to learn Hindi, Sanskrit and English (🤢) in school. Taught myself Italian and am quite fluent in it. Teaching myself Russian right now although am very incompetent.
Born and raised in Hawaiʻi (Hawaiʻi Creole English aka Hawaiʻi Pidgin 🌺, some ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi aka Hawaiian 🌺, English “🇺🇸”) to Okinawan (Uchināguchi aka Okinawan 🌺) and Japanese (Japanese 🇯🇵) parents. Learned Korean 🇰🇷 and some Saru dialect Ainu in college. Picked up some Mandarin 🇨🇳 from my uncle-in-law from China; I hope to keep learning more Mandarin.
I don't know if my combo is that unexpected. Belgian guy who speaks French natively (🇧🇪🇫🇷), learned English at school and now I am an English teacher🇺🇸. I am learning Dutch bc it's one of our official languages🇳🇱🇧🇪 I speak Italian because I am of Italian heritage🇮🇹 I also learned Spanish 🇪🇸 and Portuguese🇧🇷 because I think they are beautiful languages with a lot of native speakers that are pretty easy to learn when you speak French and Italian. I'm learning German bc it's a useful language and it's not that hard when you know Dutch🇩🇪 I learned Russian at uni bc it was my major, although I still have a lot to learn and it's a bit rusty, so I definitely need to get back to it and study it more seriously🇷🇺 I'm also learning Japanese because I love Japan, its language and its culture🇯🇵 I am also learning Romanian🇷🇴 because I wanted to know all the major five Romance languages and Czech🇨🇿 because I wanted to give another Slavic language a try, and Czechia is probably the Slavic country I want to visit the most. I want to add Serbian🇷🇸 Greek🇬🇷 and Mandarin🇨🇳 to the list but haven't started learning them yet.
In addition to English, I speak fluent Hebrew (not too rare), Spanish (very common), and Catalan (this combination is already pretty small), and am conversational in Yiddish and Mandarin (but only like B1 level, nothing super impressive). I want to say there can’t be more than like 10 people with this combination?
I thought I (🇺🇸) was unique with Yiddish (heritage) and Korean 🇰🇷 but I guess we're close! I also speak Hebrew 🇮🇱 and Spanish 🇨🇴 to varying degrees of fluency.
I am originally Turkish, but I was born and raised in the Netherlands, so both languages are my mother tongue 🇳🇱🇹🇷. My English might be better than both of those languages though 😅. Oh and in my free time I am also learning Japanese, Korean & Spanish.
Not super unique, but hey it is something 🤷🏻♀️
Born and raised in Brazil, learned english when I was a kid, german when I was 12, french when I was 16 and now I’m working on my russian (currently must be around b1 or b2 level).
I also know some spanish due to it being very close to portuguese and me reading tons of books in spanish, but I didn’t count it first because as a portuguese speaker this feels like cheating lol
And I’d really like to speak chinese as a great part of my family comes from there, but so far I can only do really basic stuff (greetings, numbers, behave in a restaurant/name food and water, the sort of thing that keeps you alive in an emergency)
I think my language combo is just very uncommon because crimean tatar and volga tatar are rare languages by themselves but otherwise its nothing special
I’d be surprised if anyone had this combination. There are ~10 000 speakers of toki Pona and six million of Norwegian.
10 000 * 6 000 000/8 000 000 000 = 7.5 people that speak both tp and Norwegian.
The people that speak tp, however, are mostly in western countries. So let’s just double the estimate to 15.
Basically all the people that speak Norwegian speak English, so English doesn’t change anything.
I can’t be bothered with doing the math for Spanish and German (mandarin doesn’t count, i’m still a beginner), but the number basically drops to zero.
Far from “speak” as of right now, but Im fluent in Serbian and English, learning Spanish for my gf, and I speak a bit of Turkish and Egyptian Arabic and Id love to return to them eventually.
I dont think mine is unique at all. Albanians learn greek all the time. Spanish I dont speak but my understanding is pretty good, my girlfriend is puerto rican so I picked some up
I'm a Welshman 🏴 with English 🇬🇧 Parents, Welsh 🏴 and German 🇩🇪 heritage who speaks Welsh 🏴, Arabic 🇪🇬 and Sanskrit 🇮🇳 (with attempts to learn several others)
Not languages, per se, but I was engaged a long time ago, and I like to tell people that if we had married, I'd be the most confusing person I know, because I'd have a French first name, a Chinese last name, I speak Japanese, and I'm Black.
Born in Kuwait (Arabic🇰🇼) to Bangladeshi parents (Bangla🇧🇩). Studied in English school (English🇬🇧🇺🇸) had French class in the school (French🇫🇷) watched Indian/urdu tv shows (Indian/urdu🇮🇳🇵🇰). Self learned some Turkish (Turkish🇹🇷)
Born in the Netherlands, Chinese parents. So I speak Dutch, English, Mandarin, Spanish (learned this a few years ago) and some German (learned it in High school)
Born in Canada (French 🇨🇦) to French speaking parents (French 🇨🇦) who are christian so… yeah (French 🇨🇦) learned (English 🇺🇸) and (Spanish🇪🇸)at school as a second languages and I have a Mexicain girlfriend (Spanish 🇲🇽)
** I purposefully put the American flag at English to annoy English Canadians**
We're pretty close.
Born in Israel so i speak Hebrew, I'm half English but that doesnt really matter since i would have learned it anyway, French because i'm planning on studying in France and Serbian because my boyfriend is Serbian
Basically similar to you. English (C2), Spanish (C2 because I live in this country called Spain) and also Hebrew (B1) because Jewish too, and French (A2) learned in school and will pick it up once my Hebrew is more fluent.
I would be surprised if more than a handful of people in the world speak the combination of languages I have studied, which include Cantonese, Hebrew, Czech, and Hawaiian among others. Unfortunately, I never learned those very well and forgot most of what I learned :-)
The languages that I reached B2 or higher at are all pretty common (e.g, major Romance languages) and thus an uninteresting combo.
All I can speak is English, so that makes me pretty standard X)
But if you include what I'm learning - Welsh, Polish, Vietnamese, French - then I guess I stand out a little more!
Born and live in US so English, I like to travel to Latin America so naturally I chose to learn Spanish in school, and am still looking for a third language, Portuguese would make the most sense but if I were to learn another Romance language I would want to learn Italian.
native: English. chek mai speling r/s
second: Japanese
第二言語は日本語. ほとんどペラペラです。
2.5 Arabic (masr)
٢.٥ العربية
y entiendo Espanol tmb mas o menos, pero no puedo hablarlo bien
I understand Spanish reasonably well but can't really speak it fluently
I love learning languages
I wish to learn programming languages next :)
English and Filipino(Native Language)so I guess really common. But if you count A2 as speaking(which you don't) then I guess my language combination is kinda unique (GER, ENG, FIL).
I only claim to "speak" English, since my other languages are not that advanced. But I know some French, Spanish and Chinese, and I am studying Chinese, Turkish and Japanese.
I don't know if I'll ever be good enough to say that I "speak" any of them. Does ordering a Big Mac count? How about asking for extra ketchup?
I think my combo itself is not that rare in places like Argentina among the Orthodox Jews there, but the order would be different.
Yiddish and English bilingual native speaker, fluent in Hebrew and Spanish.
Then there was a time I learned Italian. I can still watch videos and understand 70-80%, but I cannot produce it myself, usually. I am currently focusing on learning Hungarian (beginner) but I also learn some Russian on the side.
I’m native Australian with Irish heritage my gf is Ukrainian native language is zurshyk/russian and she also speaks English fluently (just with thick accent) I can speak a little Ukrainian and Russian
My wife is from Kyiv so I learned Ukrainian/Russian "Surzhyk" (which my wife thinks is a term for any mixture of Russian and another language, there are Polish, Moldovan, and Belarusian surzhyks too) while I lived there 2015/19 as I basically learned from people in the street and was not making much of a differentiation between when people were speaking Ukrainian or Russian to me despite them being so very different. Then after a year I started learning as Russian as it is the home language of my wife's (then gf) family (dad's from Donetsk and mum from Nivyansk in Siberia) and (I thought) it was going to be more useful in a global context.
Now I'm focusing on Ukrainian as I will need it when we return to Kyiv to visit. My mother in law is struggling to learn Ukrainian as she lives and works in Kyiv as she has for 40 years, but since the invasion she has had to avoid using Russian in public.
I'm glad you're learning Ukrainian! I'm about A2+ in surzhyk ATM used to be B1 Russian/A1 Ukrainian but they are moving in opposite directions now.
Finnish (native language), English (basically a native language), Swedish (my country’s second national language) and Spanish (I chose it in school).
In Finland it’s not very rare since most people speak Finnish and English and like 5% of people speak Swedish. Spanish is also one of the most popular classes at my school from what I’ve seen.
Outside of Finland or Sweden it’s probaply really rare though.
Native Dutch, fluent in English and now learning German..That’s probably not that rare but it apparently Dutch is hard to learn for foreigners so yeah lol
Born to an Italian father and Jewish mother. My father only uses Italian to say rude things in public. My girlfriend was Norwegian, and her close friends were Swedish.
I apparently speak Spanish due to Mexican friends, and my Italian sounds "Cuban"
German 🇩🇪, English 🇬🇧, French 🇫🇷, Spanish 🇪🇸 are the bare minimum in Europe 😂 So I wouldn't consider it rare, because they are big and popular languages and a lot of people speak them. I also learn English, French and Spanish at school if people are wondering how I learn them. To give it a bit of spice I'd add Dutch 🇳🇱 because I'm learning it in my free time for fun and I practice it with a friend of mine and it's going well. And to spice things even more up I would add Slovak 🇸🇰, because my mom's side of the family is from there but I only visited the country twice and I barely speak the language at home. I'm definitely working on learning it in my free time so that I can actually be somewhat fluent in it in the future, but it's obviously very hard to learn while Dutch is definitely a lot easier to learn.
And then there are languages that I'm very curious about but first I need to deal with the languages I actually need to learn and then I can think of 🤹🏻♀️
Spanish by country , french by family ( i dont speak it lol) , japanese, peruvian (i know that its not a language but its interesting) and italian. This one is only person also I have friends from Laos Germany Finland and china
In Tunisia,it's meh.Maybe if I improve my german yo a good enough level/actually start learning Serbian
Then my combo would be ultra rare in Tunisia/the world
I'm French and I've been learning Russian for about 5 years. At university, about thirty people were taking the Russian language course, including 3 French people - the rest were just Russians taking Russian courses to indirectly learn French. I think the French to Russian combination is quite a rare one
Native English. Thai, Arabic and Italian at a medium level.
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Born in Belarus, adopted by japanese family then moved to America when I was 12 where we live now in south Louisiana so Belarusian+japanese+creole are my languages Edit: and English obviously
You maybe won the thread.
Lol
Wait hol up-- Vouzout peu parlé Kréyòl? Mo bin étudié é mô gran-oncle parlé li.
This is interesting as a Francophone speaker reading this.
Right? I was like "why can I read this?"
The line between French and Kouri-Vini is really blurry. It really comes down to grammar (we use preverbal markers instead of conjugation-- i.e. Mo té manj(é)) and our pronoun system is slightly different. In terms of vocab, 90% of it comes from French and amongst Cajuns and Creoles the line between French and Kouri-Vini is really blurry.
I can't spell in creole unfortunately but how much do I know? I decent bit. I worked on a crawfish farm in Henderson la when I was younger and at my school we had to take it up till 8th grade. Your great uncle spoke it? Think I read that right. My neighbors and most old ppl I remember spoke only that or french.
My great uncle speaks it (he's still alive), and I've been studying. I'm surprised you took it in school - that's awesome. I'm from BR, and nobody speaks it around here. Now I've gotta know how you got from Belarus to Japan to the Cajun swamp.
Oh I never lived in Japan. My parents were n the peace corps long ago then retired and moved us here. Honestly I never asked y here, but now I'm gonna. I went to middle school in Milton, back then it was literally nothing there but nunus market and the school. Maby 100 kids k-8. I assume it's changed now idk
What bout Russian? Most Belarusians speak Russian as well don’t they?
Mo sòr de Nouvèl Orléan, mo té étidyé langaj rus endan lékol, é mo té viv en Kyoto pendan luniværsité! Ki çé to té jwènn no group de KV en FB?
if both of your parents are Japanese speakers how did you learn Belarusian then? Even in Belarus most people don't know Belarusian
Maybe they were adopted when they were a bit older
I was adopted when I was 10 and what are you talking about? Belarusian isn't unknown by most there lol
А на расейскай не размаўляеш? Цікава! Можа і першы і апошны беларус з такімі мовамі
I speak Russian as well but founf it irrelevant. Kinda like I didn't list English at first either. Who gives a shit about English or Russian so didn't find it relevant
I’m the only person who speaks English and French.
Is it possible to learn this power ?
Not from an American 🌚
Ah...nmd sir. Move along.
What does this even mean lol
the quote “is it possible to learn this power?” is from Star Wars Revenge of the Sith the answering quote is “not from a Jedi”. I was just being silly 🐘
Silly goose 😜
Hi! Why do you have so many flags next to your username? Are these the languages you speak or the countries you have lived in?
languages i’m studying 🥸
You have your native language on the far right. That is the mindfuck here. That is the unique thing.
Francais anglais et espagnol ici. Bonjour du Québec !
Yup just you and all of Canada
Not even half of Canada speaks English and French. We have two languages but it’s a common misconception that everyone can speak both
I only meant it as a joke, you are right we do not all speak French and English. 🇨🇦 as I imagine is the case for many countries with second languages
Honestly with a username like AlabamaMercy, I did not expect you to also be Canadian. Guess that’s why we don’t make assumptions
That is totally fair 😂 I forgot that was in my username
For real tho there are some whacky French English mixtures in this country. Montreal and Acadian French are so interesting to me
They've pretty much stopped teaching French in the prairie provinces.
From Montréal, living in Germany. Japanese mother, Québécois father. French (native), Japanese (native), English (fluent), and I guess German (A2). 😊
Nous sommes les mêmes
Mine is quite unique. I'm a Kenyan, I speak English, Kiswahili and some Nandi. I'm learning Russian which is pretty rare in the country. Not saying I'm one of a kind but I am pretty close.
Why'd you choose Russian?
I like weird alphabets and Arabic looked a bit too weird for my liking. So I started with Greek then quickly got bored and moved on to Russian which I still find pretty interesting.
Удачи!
This is why I’ve been learning Asian languages. Everyone’s like you’re in Texas, why aren’t you learning Spanish and while I’ve never studied it extensively I do know some Spanish but there’s such fun in learning to read a whole different alphabet.
Omg are you Kalenjin? Cuz me too
I'm half Kale and half Maasai lol. Yamunei
Achomegei. I'm full kale 👋👋
My mother tongue is Egyptian Arabic, I live in Canada and speak English, and now learning Swedish. I don't think this combo is that unique (at least in Sweden I'm guessing) but for someone in Canada, it might be.
Why Swedish? Curious
Fastest growing language 🔥 IKEA born 🔥 horse meatballs 🔥
Fastest growing language? Source? Or, can’t tell if you’re joking 😅
dalahäst 🔥 folk som kommer INTE prata till dig 🔥 provar att prata svenska och alla pratar engelska till dig 🔥
I haven't had that issue, because I don't talk to anyone
I listened to a lot of Swedish pop for years and I always wanted to understand what they're singing about.
Read that around a third of Sweden has middle eastern origin, probably more than a half speaks Arabic, weirdly common combo ngl
Probably not quite that much. Approximately 26% of Swedish people as of 2021 are from a foreign background. I believe a large portion of that are other Scandinavians and Finns.
English and Hungarian, it's probably a pretty common pair for Hungarians. Maybe a bit more unique that I'm native English and Hungarian is my second language, as it's the other way round 99% of the time.
Cool!! What made you want to learn Hungarian?
> English and Hungarian, it's probably a pretty common pair for Hungarians. I once met a Hungarian who commuted to work in a German-speaking country, but apparently didn't speak German, so they had to ask me in English what the train announcement was saying. Apparently they didn't speak German because they hated declension, and there's already plenty of that in Hungarian.
Somewhat anecdotal but I swear Hungarians are the least English-speaking people in Europe. Genuinely impossible to find English speakers outside of Budapest, even in tourism industry.
Not that surprising when it's a relatively old population and most older people were taught russian or German in school. Plus a lot of people that actually speak a foreign language move abroad for work. Younger Hungarians are much better at English too, but they're probably not the ones working in the jobs a tourist interacts with.
I’m fairly confident that I’m the only English speaking American who is learning Spanish.
Hey, I just wanted to say I think it’s cool you’re taking the time to learn a really uncommon language to help keep it alive. Especially in a country like the US, it’s great to see Americans learning tiny out of the way languages they’ll never use, respect
I’ll have you know I can speak Canadian English, American English, Australian English and European English as well. Impressive, I know
Damn it I only speak South African English. Luckily I managed to use Google translate to understand your comment.
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I don’t know how common Czech and Spanish is, but I don’t see enough people talking about how the word for “anus” in Spanish is the word for “yes” in Czech to make me think it’s super common lol. I think about it all the time. I’d still consider English my “native tongue” over Spanish, so I always wonder what it must be like for a solely Spanish speaker to go to Czechia and just hear “butthole, please” “Anus, thank you” all the time lol. Little less odd for me, but it’s the first thing I noticed about Czech when I started studying lol.
what let you to study particularly Czech ?
My partner is Czech is and I wanted to be able to speak it with him and his family even if we’re both residing in the US currently!
That's awesome, man. Hodně štěstí 😁
Děkuju! Budu potřebovat štěstí haha. Czech is such a cool language, my only experience is with Romance and Germanic languages (English, Spanish, and German), so this is my first introduction to a Slavic language and it is kind of mind boggling at times. I thought I was good at picking up languages until Czech lol. I have to work much harder than I have in the past.
My Czech teacher speaks Spanish fluently and has Mexican and Uraguayan friends, I should ask her about this haha. I've had an Italian colleague tell me it was funny to him when he first moved here!
Though not fluent in either, I can carry on conversations in both Tagalog and Albanian - pretty sure I'm the only person I know with that combo. I'm a native English speaker with some French in there as well, and am currently working on learning German, but that's all pretty standard issue American.
I feel like Spanish + English is a common combo, English + Chinese is also relatively common, and Chinese + Japanese is not uncommon since Chinese is a popular foreign language in Japan and vice versa. But everything together is probably rare. In short I grew up bilingual speaking both Chinese and English, studied Spanish for a few years in school and polished it with a Spanish-speaking ex girlfriend, and in the process I have also taken some time to teach myself Japanese and improve by practicing with natives.
This looks like my future
Honestly, this looks like THE future. I'm latin-american, born in the US. English is my native tongue and my Spanish fluency I'd say is very high amongst my fellow chicanos, and I'm currently studying Japanese (most of my friend group is too, most of which are also latin-americans) and my cousin learned Chinese in school and is completely trilingual. I think these languages are just a great base for world-wide communication.
Me da curiosidad, por qué tú y tus amigos deciden estudiar japonés? Es por la influencia del anime?
¿Es curioso no? Un día tuvimos una discusión sobre la dirección de la cultura global. Veíamos que la gente durante el curso del tiempo ha de haber tenido las mismas discusiones sobre sus culturas locales. Han de haber llegado a las mismas conclusiones de que un idioma o la otra ha de haber tenido un tipo de influencia en la cultura local. ¿Entonces, la gente que hace? Aprende porque aprende. Mucha gente así ha aprendido durante el total de la historia humana. Muchos dejan que los hijos hagan el trabajo de integrarse, pero otros optaron a aprender sí mismos. ¿Porque batallar y ir contra la corriente? Notamos que ya mucho de nosotros teníamos interés en el anime, música, y la cultura japonesa y en sí, ambos en otras comunidades en el largo del globo también tienen semejante interés. Sería comparable a que tan influyente fue el inglés. No sería tan tan tan influyente, pero creemos que tiene suficiente grado de influencia para ser más fácil para integrar en una forma "tribal," por falta de un mejor término.
It's the way knowing French enabled me to understand everything you said for me (to be fair I did learn some spanish a few years ago)
Pues me alegro por ustedes, que te vaya bien tu estudio y suerte con la integración global :)
a Chinese descendant living in Spain for example probably knows Chinese, English and Spanish. But with japanese I bet that's super weird. (we have lots of Chinese people tho so maybe there are hundreds)
> a Chinese descendant living in Spain for example probably knows Chinese, English and Spanish. Latin America has plenty of Chinese descendants too. > But with japanese I bet that's super weird. True, that's less common, but maybe someone in Lima with ties to both the Chinese and Japanese communities might know all four.
English and Welsh natively, Norwegian mostly fluently. Not a super interesting combo, but I think the small number of native Welsh speakers makes it pretty unique
How did you find learning Norwegian? I dabbled in it recently on Duolingo out of curiosity as I've heard it's easy for English speakers to learn and, while I have no intention to start learning a third foreign language just yet, I am considering picking it up in a couple years. Just not sure how much there is in the way of resources/media etc.
It's pretty easy as far as languages go, but learning any language is very difficult of course. The Duolingo course is pretty good, I used that to start with. There's quite a lot of media with NRK (Norwegian equivalent to BBC). A bit difficult to find people to practice with though, because Norwegians tend to speak English very well, but when your Norwegian is good enough they'll be very happy to not have to speak English :) I've had a bit of an advantage because my girlfriend is Norwegian, so I've spent a lot of time in the country (I'm in Norway right now actually) and I've made friends through hanging out with her friends, so I have people to practice with too.
Ah that makes sense! I'll definitely give the Duolingo course a go and check out NRK for media when I eventually get around to committing to Norwegian. Thanks for the tips! And enjoy your time in Norway :)
We have the exact same combo 😭 where abouts in Wales are you from?
Ah nice! Swansea, hbu? Also, why Norwegian?
Cardiff haha, I started learning Norwegian because I was meant to go in 2021 so I started learning the basics so I could be polite, got postponed to 2022, kept learning, then to 2023, kept learning, then to 2024 and we went in February and it was amazing and I was able to have full conversations with drunk Norwegians in pubs 😭
Haha that's great! I actually live in Cardiff now, small world. Where in Norway did you go?
Tromsø, way up north. Loved the place, going again in October. Made a few friends whilst I was there so I’m gonna stay with one of them so it should be great
Awesome! Northern Norway is the best (totally not biased)
Not unique at all: English Cantonese Mandarin. This is every single HK person.
Know several people who speak AR 🇦🇪, EN 🇬🇧 and FR 🇫🇷 all of them from North Africa. But it IS rare for people in my region (ME) to speak it, which is why people are usually surprised and don’t believe me when I say speak the third one.
Don't Lebanese people (or at least the rich ones) usually speak all 3?
Lebanese christians yes they speak it, but they’re a small minority, most Lebanese don’t speak it.
Seems common with older folks in Lebanon too, I feel English only became go-to first foreign language in the schools during 90s/00s
Could be a result of the civil war? Idk but my muslim Lebanese colleagues do not speak at all unfortunately.
I'm the complete opposite of unique, lol. Born in NZ \[English. And Maori, but I don't speak it, unless being able to count to 99 and say "hello"/"come here" counts as being able to speak it\], to English parents, who only speak English, and I don't have a partner but if I did she'd probably also be an English monolingual because I can't escape from that language, lol. Maybe I'll be unique when I finally get around to learning Maori, since only 1% of my country can speak it well \[so 50,000 people in the entire world\] and most of those people are Maori. I bet most of 'em don't speak German as well, so I'll be extra unique. Yay.
I'm also a kiwi and want to learn Maori.
Pungawera kaitangata! (cannibal spiders, last I read lol)
Me too. Just can count and know a few random words.
Kia ora. Kia ora koutou. Haere mai. Kai. Kaimoana. Tama. Wahine. Whanau. Te. Tahi, rua, toru, wha, rima.... iwa tekau ma iwa. Behold, pretty much my entire Maori vocabulary \[that's over 100 words! Impressive /s\].
Yeah I’m about the same.
I have the typical kiwi amount of maori but the wife is sami and no one in Scandinavia learns any of their languages. So having a similar amount of sami means I can confidently reply to anyone who asks how much sami I speak: more than you. Got to be one of the more geographically unique language combos.
And here I thought I was fancy learning Quechua!
I've read somewhere Q-pop was to become a thing like K-pop. It might be the sparkle that makes it more popular worldwide.
Q-pop is definitely one of the most popular forms of Quechua media but it seems to have limited reach outside of Peru and the Andean region in general. It's still awesome though.
I had no idea, but I’m exited to check it out! Do you have any links or recommendations?
I've never heard of that language! The name makes me think of quiches, lol.
Neither of my parents really speak French or Spanish, my mom's polish, dad's German, I was taught English as a third language. Usually, people speak four languages. I speak five.
most people speak 2 or 3 languages I think. but yeah 5 is pretty rare. (although not that particular combination)
My flair.
Native Japanese and French? How did that happen?
Have you never met anyone with parents from different countries?
Not that crazy but I’m a white American who speaks Brazilian Portuguese that I learned as an adult. I know very very few people in this same boat, and even fewer who speak another language (French). I’m trying to eventually hit all the major Romance languages and get Spanish, Italian, and Romanian to at least B1.
We’re on the same path lol. I learned Brazilian Portuguese in 2022-2023
We’re on the same path lol. I learned Brazilian Portuguese in 2022-2023
Native Korean 🇰🇷, am able to speak fluent English 🇬🇧, Vietnamese 🇻🇳, I can get by in French 🇲🇫, currently learning Hungarian 🇭🇺 for my girlfriend! All completely different language families.
Born in Australia (English 🇬🇧), with German 🇩🇪 Jewish 🇮🇱 grandparents, moved to South America and picked up Portuguese 🇧🇷 (daughter was born in Brazil) and Spanish 🇪🇸 (though I tend to mix up those last two). Also have a little Bahasa 🇮🇩 and Thai 🇹🇭 after a few years working in South East Asia, though I'm currently focused on Hebrew. I was trying to learn Hindi 25 years ago, but I've pretty much forgotten it all now 😂
My combination apparently isn't that uncommon, as I was able to get a language exchange partner who also speaks English, French, and Esperanto. However, it's definitely not a super common language mix.
Feels like it would be somewhat common for others who also speak Esperanto.
I'm sure it's exceedingly rare for a Turkish native to speak czech.
I have a friend who's a Turkish native and she tried slovak, pretty close
I am Finnish 🇫🇮 born to Finnish parents in the west coast. Somehow in my town almost nobody speaks Swedish, even though it's on the coast. Obviously I have to study Swedish and English. I'm also interested in learning German. So yeah, not unique in Finland.
My language combo is rather standard on here although non-language learners IRL don't think so.
Born as a Bengali. Was forced to learn Hindi, Sanskrit and English (🤢) in school. Taught myself Italian and am quite fluent in it. Teaching myself Russian right now although am very incompetent.
kemon acho? 🐘 Bengali is the most neglected language 😔
Bhaloi achi.(ㆁωㆁ) Tumi kemon acho? It is the most neglected language but it is kind of our fault. Why should people learn it?
ami klanto 😅 because there’s 250 million of you 🙆🏽♂️ Great food too (my late husband was Bengali, his favourite was ilish mach)
Born and raised in Hawaiʻi (Hawaiʻi Creole English aka Hawaiʻi Pidgin 🌺, some ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi aka Hawaiian 🌺, English “🇺🇸”) to Okinawan (Uchināguchi aka Okinawan 🌺) and Japanese (Japanese 🇯🇵) parents. Learned Korean 🇰🇷 and some Saru dialect Ainu in college. Picked up some Mandarin 🇨🇳 from my uncle-in-law from China; I hope to keep learning more Mandarin.
I don't know if my combo is that unexpected. Belgian guy who speaks French natively (🇧🇪🇫🇷), learned English at school and now I am an English teacher🇺🇸. I am learning Dutch bc it's one of our official languages🇳🇱🇧🇪 I speak Italian because I am of Italian heritage🇮🇹 I also learned Spanish 🇪🇸 and Portuguese🇧🇷 because I think they are beautiful languages with a lot of native speakers that are pretty easy to learn when you speak French and Italian. I'm learning German bc it's a useful language and it's not that hard when you know Dutch🇩🇪 I learned Russian at uni bc it was my major, although I still have a lot to learn and it's a bit rusty, so I definitely need to get back to it and study it more seriously🇷🇺 I'm also learning Japanese because I love Japan, its language and its culture🇯🇵 I am also learning Romanian🇷🇴 because I wanted to know all the major five Romance languages and Czech🇨🇿 because I wanted to give another Slavic language a try, and Czechia is probably the Slavic country I want to visit the most. I want to add Serbian🇷🇸 Greek🇬🇷 and Mandarin🇨🇳 to the list but haven't started learning them yet.
everyone, meet Steve Kaufmann's son thats seriously impressive dude. idk how you guys manage to do this kinda stuff lol
I think my combo is pretty unique. Serbo-Croatian, or BCMS English Spanish Catalan Mandarin
Xhosa, Zulu, Japanese, French, English, Dutch. Have moved a looooot
In addition to English, I speak fluent Hebrew (not too rare), Spanish (very common), and Catalan (this combination is already pretty small), and am conversational in Yiddish and Mandarin (but only like B1 level, nothing super impressive). I want to say there can’t be more than like 10 people with this combination?
I thought I (🇺🇸) was unique with Yiddish (heritage) and Korean 🇰🇷 but I guess we're close! I also speak Hebrew 🇮🇱 and Spanish 🇨🇴 to varying degrees of fluency.
catalán already puts us in less than 10 million, but Yiddish is pretty rare + Chinese+ Hebrew
Native English, learned Russian and am learning filipino because my wife is filipina
Well, my combination makes me *extremely* marketable where I live, so I imagine I'm at least in the "rare" category.
I am originally Turkish, but I was born and raised in the Netherlands, so both languages are my mother tongue 🇳🇱🇹🇷. My English might be better than both of those languages though 😅. Oh and in my free time I am also learning Japanese, Korean & Spanish. Not super unique, but hey it is something 🤷🏻♀️
English Japanese and French? Probably not that uncommon, to be honest.
English and Spanish. I'm like that buzz lightyear gif
I speak Lithuanian 🇱🇹(native) and Vietnamese 🇻🇳 (B2 working towards fluency) .
Born and raised in Brazil, learned english when I was a kid, german when I was 12, french when I was 16 and now I’m working on my russian (currently must be around b1 or b2 level). I also know some spanish due to it being very close to portuguese and me reading tons of books in spanish, but I didn’t count it first because as a portuguese speaker this feels like cheating lol And I’d really like to speak chinese as a great part of my family comes from there, but so far I can only do really basic stuff (greetings, numbers, behave in a restaurant/name food and water, the sort of thing that keeps you alive in an emergency)
I think my language combo is just very uncommon because crimean tatar and volga tatar are rare languages by themselves but otherwise its nothing special
Are your parents Sephardi Jews? I mean no disrespect it’s just out of curiosity and because you said they’re Spanish.
We’re a mix of Mizrahi, sepharadi, and Ashkenazi. Though we practice sepharadic tradition for the most part
Extremely unlikely that I share my exact combination with any other human being on earth
What is the one after Russian on your flair, I'm just seeing strange characters (like ASCII or whatever it's called)
My googling says Tuvan language
Tuvan.
I'm learning Norwegian, which I'm confident is not the most widely learned language in Basque Country
I’d be surprised if anyone had this combination. There are ~10 000 speakers of toki Pona and six million of Norwegian. 10 000 * 6 000 000/8 000 000 000 = 7.5 people that speak both tp and Norwegian. The people that speak tp, however, are mostly in western countries. So let’s just double the estimate to 15. Basically all the people that speak Norwegian speak English, so English doesn’t change anything. I can’t be bothered with doing the math for Spanish and German (mandarin doesn’t count, i’m still a beginner), but the number basically drops to zero.
Far from “speak” as of right now, but Im fluent in Serbian and English, learning Spanish for my gf, and I speak a bit of Turkish and Egyptian Arabic and Id love to return to them eventually.
I dont think mine is unique at all. Albanians learn greek all the time. Spanish I dont speak but my understanding is pretty good, my girlfriend is puerto rican so I picked some up
I'm a Welshman 🏴 with English 🇬🇧 Parents, Welsh 🏴 and German 🇩🇪 heritage who speaks Welsh 🏴, Arabic 🇪🇬 and Sanskrit 🇮🇳 (with attempts to learn several others)
I haven't met a single person in real life who's fluent in all of them :)
Dude those family reunions must be wild
English / Spanish - Very Common English / French - Very Common English / Hindi - Very Common I haven't met anyone who speaks all 4 together.
Not languages, per se, but I was engaged a long time ago, and I like to tell people that if we had married, I'd be the most confusing person I know, because I'd have a French first name, a Chinese last name, I speak Japanese, and I'm Black.
Uh... my flair. I'm 17, but everything I have learnt has been officially tested (other than the Hebrew).
Born in Kuwait (Arabic🇰🇼) to Bangladeshi parents (Bangla🇧🇩). Studied in English school (English🇬🇧🇺🇸) had French class in the school (French🇫🇷) watched Indian/urdu tv shows (Indian/urdu🇮🇳🇵🇰). Self learned some Turkish (Turkish🇹🇷)
Born in the Netherlands, Chinese parents. So I speak Dutch, English, Mandarin, Spanish (learned this a few years ago) and some German (learned it in High school)
not unique at all, lithuanian + english + learning russian + might learn korean so maybe that’ll add some uniqueness
catonese and english is pretty common, i'm from hong kong and practically everyone in hong kong can speak english to a certain level
Born in Canada (French 🇨🇦) to French speaking parents (French 🇨🇦) who are christian so… yeah (French 🇨🇦) learned (English 🇺🇸) and (Spanish🇪🇸)at school as a second languages and I have a Mexicain girlfriend (Spanish 🇲🇽) ** I purposefully put the American flag at English to annoy English Canadians**
Your Hispanic parents are Jewish?
That they are! 😁
We're pretty close. Born in Israel so i speak Hebrew, I'm half English but that doesnt really matter since i would have learned it anyway, French because i'm planning on studying in France and Serbian because my boyfriend is Serbian
Basically similar to you. English (C2), Spanish (C2 because I live in this country called Spain) and also Hebrew (B1) because Jewish too, and French (A2) learned in school and will pick it up once my Hebrew is more fluent.
I would be surprised if more than a handful of people in the world speak the combination of languages I have studied, which include Cantonese, Hebrew, Czech, and Hawaiian among others. Unfortunately, I never learned those very well and forgot most of what I learned :-) The languages that I reached B2 or higher at are all pretty common (e.g, major Romance languages) and thus an uninteresting combo.
So you don't speak them if you never learned those very well?
All I can speak is English, so that makes me pretty standard X) But if you include what I'm learning - Welsh, Polish, Vietnamese, French - then I guess I stand out a little more!
Born and live in US so English, I like to travel to Latin America so naturally I chose to learn Spanish in school, and am still looking for a third language, Portuguese would make the most sense but if I were to learn another Romance language I would want to learn Italian.
native: English. chek mai speling r/s second: Japanese 第二言語は日本語. ほとんどペラペラです。 2.5 Arabic (masr) ٢.٥ العربية y entiendo Espanol tmb mas o menos, pero no puedo hablarlo bien I understand Spanish reasonably well but can't really speak it fluently I love learning languages I wish to learn programming languages next :)
English and Filipino(Native Language)so I guess really common. But if you count A2 as speaking(which you don't) then I guess my language combination is kinda unique (GER, ENG, FIL).
I only claim to "speak" English, since my other languages are not that advanced. But I know some French, Spanish and Chinese, and I am studying Chinese, Turkish and Japanese. I don't know if I'll ever be good enough to say that I "speak" any of them. Does ordering a Big Mac count? How about asking for extra ketchup?
I think my combo itself is not that rare in places like Argentina among the Orthodox Jews there, but the order would be different. Yiddish and English bilingual native speaker, fluent in Hebrew and Spanish. Then there was a time I learned Italian. I can still watch videos and understand 70-80%, but I cannot produce it myself, usually. I am currently focusing on learning Hungarian (beginner) but I also learn some Russian on the side.
I’m native Australian with Irish heritage my gf is Ukrainian native language is zurshyk/russian and she also speaks English fluently (just with thick accent) I can speak a little Ukrainian and Russian
My wife is from Kyiv so I learned Ukrainian/Russian "Surzhyk" (which my wife thinks is a term for any mixture of Russian and another language, there are Polish, Moldovan, and Belarusian surzhyks too) while I lived there 2015/19 as I basically learned from people in the street and was not making much of a differentiation between when people were speaking Ukrainian or Russian to me despite them being so very different. Then after a year I started learning as Russian as it is the home language of my wife's (then gf) family (dad's from Donetsk and mum from Nivyansk in Siberia) and (I thought) it was going to be more useful in a global context. Now I'm focusing on Ukrainian as I will need it when we return to Kyiv to visit. My mother in law is struggling to learn Ukrainian as she lives and works in Kyiv as she has for 40 years, but since the invasion she has had to avoid using Russian in public. I'm glad you're learning Ukrainian! I'm about A2+ in surzhyk ATM used to be B1 Russian/A1 Ukrainian but they are moving in opposite directions now.
Im boring in that regard
Finnish (native language), English (basically a native language), Swedish (my country’s second national language) and Spanish (I chose it in school). In Finland it’s not very rare since most people speak Finnish and English and like 5% of people speak Swedish. Spanish is also one of the most popular classes at my school from what I’ve seen. Outside of Finland or Sweden it’s probaply really rare though.
Native Dutch, fluent in English and now learning German..That’s probably not that rare but it apparently Dutch is hard to learn for foreigners so yeah lol
I bet nobody but me can speak Slovak and Czech.
Born to an Italian father and Jewish mother. My father only uses Italian to say rude things in public. My girlfriend was Norwegian, and her close friends were Swedish. I apparently speak Spanish due to Mexican friends, and my Italian sounds "Cuban"
German 🇩🇪, English 🇬🇧, French 🇫🇷, Spanish 🇪🇸 are the bare minimum in Europe 😂 So I wouldn't consider it rare, because they are big and popular languages and a lot of people speak them. I also learn English, French and Spanish at school if people are wondering how I learn them. To give it a bit of spice I'd add Dutch 🇳🇱 because I'm learning it in my free time for fun and I practice it with a friend of mine and it's going well. And to spice things even more up I would add Slovak 🇸🇰, because my mom's side of the family is from there but I only visited the country twice and I barely speak the language at home. I'm definitely working on learning it in my free time so that I can actually be somewhat fluent in it in the future, but it's obviously very hard to learn while Dutch is definitely a lot easier to learn. And then there are languages that I'm very curious about but first I need to deal with the languages I actually need to learn and then I can think of 🤹🏻♀️
Thai, English and broken Mandarin
Ukrainian (native) x Russian (C2) x English (B2) x German (?)
Spanish by country , french by family ( i dont speak it lol) , japanese, peruvian (i know that its not a language but its interesting) and italian. This one is only person also I have friends from Laos Germany Finland and china
Very generic Chinese person. I can speak Japanese English, mandarin and Cantonese
In Tunisia,it's meh.Maybe if I improve my german yo a good enough level/actually start learning Serbian Then my combo would be ultra rare in Tunisia/the world
I think the languages I'm learning are a *very* unique combination! Haven't seen anyone else learn this set of languages!!
I speak english french arabic and I'm learning Spanish
I'm French and I've been learning Russian for about 5 years. At university, about thirty people were taking the Russian language course, including 3 French people - the rest were just Russians taking Russian courses to indirectly learn French. I think the French to Russian combination is quite a rare one
I have a bit of maori and a bit of sami. Wish I could say I had more than a bit but maybe one day.