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Alternatively, in the languages I speak:

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie? (Deutsch/German)

¿Qué idiomas habla usted? (Español/Spanish)

Que langue fait-vous parlez? (Français/French)

EDIT: There, I think I fixed the sentences.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Welche Sprache sprechen Sie*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Was für eine Sprache du sprichst.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Welche SpracheN with n

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My native language is French, but I also speak fluent English and a little 日本語 and Spanish.

日本語はもっと難しいだったな。 El español era más fácil de aprender gracias a sus similitudes con el francés, pero, no hablo muy bien😅.

Oh btw, it is not "Que langue fait-vous parler" (blind traduction of the english "What language do-you speak") but rather "Quelles langues parlez-vous?" ("What languages speaks-you?").

We don't use "do" for interrogative in french. The endings for "parler" (to speak) are: Je parle, tu parles, il parle, nous parlons, vous parlez, ils parlent. To make interogative phrases, just invert the pronoun and the verb: tu parles -> parles-tu? So "What language you speak" -> "What language speaks-you?". Sorry for the awkward course ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

English and ɥsolƃuƎ uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bist du sicher, dass du deutsch sprichst?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thats what I thought too when reading the German sentence xd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ja, aber mein Deutsch ist nicht perfekt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I only speak two languages: English and bad English.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spanish as native, English as second language, German as third

and no, German and Spanish translations of your question are wrong:

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie?

¿Qué idiomas habla usted?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

German, English, a little Dutch and Javascript

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

English and my native Serbian.

Ich habe Deutsch in der Schule gelernt. Ich benutze es sehr seltsam, aber ich habe fast nichts vergessen, weil unsere Lehrerinen sehr sehr Böse war. Deutsch in der Schule hat meine Leben 10 jahren verkurtzt.

Έχω μάθει και τα Ελληνικά. Ένα από τα όνειρά μου είναι να διαβάζω τα κείμενα στα αρχαία ελληνικά, αλλά αυτό ήταν τρόπο δύσκολο. Γιατί αποφάσισε να μαθαίνω πρότω τα νέα Ελληνικα, καί σύντομα τα αρχαία είναι πολύ πιό εύκολα.

I can understand a fair amount of Russian, but I can't necessarilly speak it as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

In French, it's "Quelles langues parlez-vous?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Mon français n'est pas mauvais, und mein Deutsch ist ziemlich schlecht.

Je ne sais pas si mon allemand avait un sens.

Also English lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Spanish as my native language, English, intermediate Portuguese and currently learning French.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can speak the official language of 67 different nations.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I speak Arabic both Egypt and formal in in edition to English

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hey, if you don't mind me asking, is the whole Khelif story a thing in Egypt?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Baguette, dutch, english and spanish, i love to speak all 4 equally but french is the equivalent of a having a migraine to write

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Polish (my native language) and english (duh). I also want to learn lojban for fun, but I keep procrastinating

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

English and Spanish. I also want to learn Portuguese eventually mostly because I am looking into moving to Brazil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

English and Turkish as native languages, I've also studied French as a prep-year for highschool so I can understand it but don't speak it fluently, same with Italian, somehow. Other than that I've been learning Mandarin for a year and I'll take the HSK 3 exam in a few months :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mi parolas iomete da Esperanton, y yo hablo tambien un poquito Español, pero medyo fluent ako sa Pilipino, ang wika taga sa Pilipinas. I’m pretty good at English, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Mi esperis vidi tro da esperantistoj en Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Dutch, German, French, English and what starts to become passable Slovak.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

English. I really wish I had done better in French class during school

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

English, German, a bit of Mandarin, and Toki Pona!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Dutch, a funky dutch dialect, English and I understand German but I don't speak it. Should probably learn it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Was Sprachen Sie spricht? (Deutsch/German)

I'm not a native speaker, but I'm pretty sure it's

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie?

assuming you want to be formal, which feels a little weird to me in the context of an internet forum.

Edit: but to answer your question: fluent English, mehr als ein Bißchen Deutsch, y un poquito Español.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ein Bißchen Deutsch

BTW, this should be written as:

ein bisschen Deutsch

We switched from ß to ss in all words with a preceding short vowel in 1996: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_der_deutschen_Rechtschreibung_von_1996
So, it's "Fuß" and "Maß", because those are pronounced with a long vowel, but then "Fass" and "muss" and "Biss", because those are pronounced with a short vowel.

And in this case, "bisschen" is spelled with a small "b" for reasons that I'm not entirely sure are logical. 😅
It would be spelled with a capital letter, if "Bisschen" was a unit of measurement here (i.e. a small bite), like a "Liter" is.
But because it was used so much and without really referring to a specific measurement, it eventually began being spelled lowercase, similar to "wenig" or "etwas" ("ein wenig Deutsch", "etwas Deutsch"). Apparently, this kind of word is called an "Indefinitpronomen".

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/bisschen
vs.
https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bisschen (much rarer)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Native English speaker. I learned some French in school and enough Japanese to get through a judo match. I struggle to retain other languages. Everywhere I go everyone speaks English and it's hard to justify learning a new one even everyone in a 1000 mile radius speaks English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

English and Scots Gaelic.

A bheil gàidhlid agad?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Fluent in Norwegian and English. Norwegian allows me to basically fully understand Swedish and Danish, but my mimicking/mocking of those languages does probably not count as languages I can speak.

I also have some very rusty german education which would probably allow me to be understood, but hardly enough to have a conversation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

~~Was Sprachen Sie spricht?~~ Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie? (Deutsch/German)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

/\ that's the more formal way of addressing either a single person or multiple (yeah, this formal pronoun is a bit weird and can be read multiple ways). If you wanna address a group of people more informally: "Welche Sprachen sprecht ihr?".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati

Only reading: Japanese, Arabic, Russian

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Can you say something about Urdu and Gujarati?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

French, English, German and a little spoken Japanese. I also studied latin

Edit: in French we say: « Quelles langues parlez-vous ? »

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

fluent in Maltese (native) and English. Conversational in Italian. I was one of the last generations to grow up without the internet, so we had to watch TV. And we're in close proximty to italy so we could get their channels. It is much less common nowadays for kids to also know Italian here. But people my age have no idea what Dragon Ball Z sounds like in english. We all watched it in Italian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Estonian, English and a couple of the simplest words in Russian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

English, Russian, Czech (used to be fluent, but haven't used in a while), Mandarin (a bit, still learning)

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