Welche Sprache sprechen Sie*
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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 ;)
English and ɥsolƃuƎ uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀
Bist du sicher, dass du deutsch sprichst?
Thats what I thought too when reading the German sentence xd
Ja, aber mein Deutsch ist nicht perfekt.
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?
German, English, a little Dutch and Javascript
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.
In French, it's "Quelles langues parlez-vous?"
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.
Spanish as my native language, English, intermediate Portuguese and currently learning French.
I can speak the official language of 67 different nations.
I speak Arabic both Egypt and formal in in edition to English
Hey, if you don't mind me asking, is the whole Khelif story a thing in Egypt?
Baguette, dutch, english and spanish, i love to speak all 4 equally but french is the equivalent of a having a migraine to write
Polish (my native language) and english (duh). I also want to learn lojban for fun, but I keep procrastinating
English and Spanish. I also want to learn Portuguese eventually mostly because I am looking into moving to Brazil.
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
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.
Mi esperis vidi tro da esperantistoj en Lemmy!
Dutch, German, French, English and what starts to become passable Slovak.
English. I really wish I had done better in French class during school
English, German, a bit of Mandarin, and Toki Pona!
Dutch, a funky dutch dialect, English and I understand German but I don't speak it. Should probably learn it.
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.
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)
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.
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.
~~Was Sprachen Sie spricht?~~ Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie? (Deutsch/German)
/\ 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?".
English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati
Only reading: Japanese, Arabic, Russian
Can you say something about Urdu and Gujarati?
French, English, German and a little spoken Japanese. I also studied latin
Edit: in French we say: « Quelles langues parlez-vous ? »
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.
Estonian, English and a couple of the simplest words in Russian.
English, Russian, Czech (used to be fluent, but haven't used in a while), Mandarin (a bit, still learning)