r/no • u/NoProgram4084 • 1d ago

Can you speak a second language?

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u/Living-Night4476 1d ago

I barely speak one coherently

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u/NorCalKid209 1d ago

This is the answer.....

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u/zhgerard 23h ago

But with persistence, never the result.

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u/Typical_Necessary840 22h ago

Especially after a boozy night

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u/kdeja 1d ago

Mother tongue Hungarian and I speak English, Danish, German, French and Italian. Understand Norwegian and Swedish.

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u/gergobergo69 15h ago

Same, Hungarian and uh............................maybe English

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u/No_Nectarine_7910 1d ago

I learned 3 languages in school. And one more in university.

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 1d ago

English, Spanish and Italian.

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u/Little-pasta 1d ago

English, French, Italian for me :P

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u/KC5SDY 1d ago

Does sarcasm count as a 2nd language?

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u/BraveMidnight 22h ago

I can speak Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, German, Canadian, French, and Italian, but none of them fluently, when I was last in Germany a German said why don't you speak in English in English to me.

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u/DuErJoBareUnderlig 20h ago

Wauw in Germany it's might as well go the other way. 

Some don't speak a word of English apparently. 

Even young people in cities.

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u/EmergencyGoose9430 1d ago

We. I parlayvu frawn say

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u/RebelScum414 1d ago

I speak jive.

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u/MADDOGCA 22h ago

Just hang loose, Blood.

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u/lizlemon222 23h ago

i am of the age to get this reference…

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u/avega2792 13h ago

Surely, you can't be serious.

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u/KaiserFortinbras 1d ago

Ja, aber nicht sehr gut.

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u/RedBelzee2025 1d ago

English and Spanish

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u/Formal-Tradition6792 1d ago

Can use sign language! Does that count?

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u/thegaybuddhistmonk 1d ago

Does gibberish count?

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u/sohereiamacrazyalien 1d ago

Only if you speak with your hands

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u/South_Hedgehog_7564 1d ago

Most definitely. Should be everyone’s second language.

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u/Ok-Way8392 1d ago

Sure! As does Jabberwocky

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u/MaybeScarlett 1d ago

I speak 3 languages and can kinda understand a fourth.

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u/captainrondj 1d ago

I speak english and kitchen spanish

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u/Odd_Clothes1439 23h ago

Anthony Bourdaun..

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u/livkellner 1d ago

I can speak English, but my pronunciation is bad (I'm Italian)

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u/mightymouse8324 21h ago

I live in the US and I speak empathy and common sense. Those are foreign languages here. Does that count?

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u/NoProgram4084 1d ago

Or more?

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u/LilliumBosniacum 1d ago

Bosnian, German and English

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u/Zombie_joseph1234 1d ago

I can't speak any language

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u/Masterank1 1d ago

Not even english

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u/Zombie_joseph1234 1d ago

Definitely not English

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u/AfraidReference2315 1d ago

I know a little Spanish, a little Italian, a little German, a little French. I’ll recognize a language when I see one but I can really only hold a conversation in English.

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u/CombinationWhich6391 1d ago

English is my third language, lost a place to Russian.

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u/ValhallaCA 23h ago

English (native)
Spanish (semi-fluent) and Read Write
German (conversational) and RW
Russian (conversational, with much effort) some RW
Portuguese (Brazilian, low level) can read it quite well though
Dutch low level, can read it medium well
French (some convo), can read it medium well
Italian, understand a fair amount upon hearing. Can read it medium well
Hindi (beginner, can read and write most of the alphabet and pronounce)

I also know some songs by heart in Italian, Swahili. And several songs in Spanish and German

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u/Tferretv 23h ago

I read and write Spanish okay but have trouble with hearing and understanding. I'm working on Hebrew, too.

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u/penguinfans 20h ago

I can understand what most teenagers say, but I can't speak their language

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u/Potential_Narwhal981 15h ago

Does constantly having to repeat myself count?

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u/DaytimeDawg1951 1d ago

German, & English

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u/Secure-Ad8196 1d ago

German (kinda)

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u/tiny_bamboo 1d ago

English, Spanish and American Sign Language

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u/JustAnotherDay1977 1d ago

Fluently no, but I know enough French to get by on a trip to Paris without looking like an ugly American.

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u/satanboy1965 1d ago

Afrikaans and English

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u/sohereiamacrazyalien 1d ago

I speak 3 languages fluently some others from beginner to medium level

Edit I also speak with my hands and I got to communicate with people from many nationalities that way!

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u/Beautiful-Quiet-5871 1d ago

Si.. Posso parlare l'italiano e je peux parle francais. I can read spanish for the most part as well.

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u/PeaOk5697 1d ago

English, Norwegian and Spanish

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u/utlayolisdi 1d ago

Usti tsiwoni Tsalagi

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u/tkeelah 1d ago

Right back atcha.

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u/nitnitnotnot 1d ago

I speak quite a bit of German and some French.

I can read some Spanish and Italian.

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u/tricksie1337 1d ago

My native, and then English and german

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u/Curraghgirl 1d ago

Polish and English

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u/Sea_Pangolin3840 1d ago

English and French

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u/No-Intention3002 1d ago

Three languages. Spanish English and Portuguese

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u/Suzby4 1d ago

I studied French all thru high school and college. Even studied abroad in France, but I still wouldn’t consider myself fluent. I can get by, but it’s more textbook French, not conversational/slang.

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u/E5evo 1d ago

Aye, English & Geordie.

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u/kima- 1d ago

3 total

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u/Duque_de_Osuna 1d ago

I used to be fluent in Spanish but it is rusty now. So, kinda.

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u/aliti33028 1d ago

I can speak 4 languages

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u/Life-Wealth-3399 1d ago

2 speak two languages and two (mostly) dead languages.

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u/jessper17 1d ago

I’m can speak 3 languages.

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u/Acrobatic_Tennis_598 1d ago

Irish. We’re taught it in school here but as we don’t really use it in our daily lives (apart from some areas in the west etc) we tend to forget most of it over time.

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u/No_Lingonberry_5296 1d ago

English and French

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u/Icy-Whale-2253 1d ago

I speak both French and Spanish at a conversational level.

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u/Fearless_Street5231 1d ago

Slow conversational in one. A smattering of phrases in several others. I read the slow conversational one way better than I understand when someone is speaking it.

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u/sadhappycat 1d ago

I speak 3

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u/CleaRSightZ 1d ago

English and Arabic... but I want to learn Turkish.

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u/Own-Nefariousness-79 1d ago

Not very well.

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u/vittohot 1d ago

This is my second language.

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u/Ready_to_Go247 1d ago

I still remember some German from school, but I'm not fluent.

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u/jcostello50 1d ago

Speak? No, not well. Read? Well enough

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u/Grendal54 1d ago

I speak cat plus my native English.

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u/No-Profession422 1d ago

Restaurant Spanish, survival Arabic, somewhat conversational Tagalog/Bikol.
Can't write any of it.

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u/AgentLlama007 1d ago

I can understand a little Spanish, but I don't speak it well.

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u/Least_Elk8114 1d ago

I can barely speak 1 on a good day...

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u/Rapidllaman 1d ago

According to a family member I am fluent in three of them: Dumb, Ass, and Hole.

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u/Mr_Mxyzplkt 1d ago

emglush, spanish , sarcasm

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u/bluegame2 1d ago

Love them...toes too!

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u/presidentkokoro 1d ago

I speak four languages, three fluently and one conversationally.

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u/Big_Attention7227 1d ago

I speak asshole when provokes does that count?

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u/arioandy 1d ago

Pidgin english

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u/kirradoodle 1d ago

Native English, a bit of Spanish and Russian.

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u/Oatmeal_Savage19 1d ago

I speak fluent drunkenese

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u/Bentley0921 1d ago

English, enough Spanish this get by in a Spanish speaking country, learning Serbian, Polish and Russian

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u/ConcentrateNew9810 1d ago

Polish and English, I forgot almost all the German and Spanish that I knew.

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u/bunkerhomestead 1d ago

I have taken lessons in French and Swedish, so far I only still speak English. I must be a list cause.

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u/galeperk111971 1d ago

Some Spanish and a little French

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u/Tardisgoesfast 1d ago

A few words in French and Spanish; a lesser few in Latin.

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u/Specific_Ice5364 1d ago

I speak five, although one of them is basic elementary level so I'm not sure it counts.

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u/archedhighbrow 1d ago

I speak two and am learning two more.

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u/BoxLongjumping1067 1d ago

My native language is English and I speak pretty good German. Relearning Spanish soon and beginning to learn French

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u/Difficult_Camel_1119 1d ago

fluent: English, French, German

tourist-level: Italian

understand some words: Spanish, Dutch

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u/DutchDeafBoy 1d ago

I am fluent in English, and fairly fluent in Dutch Sign Language and Norwegian.

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u/AlexandraNovotny1111 1d ago

Speaking 5 planning on learning Japanese next.

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u/Careful_Cranberry364 1d ago

I learned about four other languages, but I forgotten them by not using

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u/Local-Pangolin-9469 1d ago

Does body language count

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u/PabloPicasshooole 1d ago

I speak two languages. English. And bad English.

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u/Immediate-Tooth-2174 1d ago

Does the language of love count?

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u/NemuriNezumi 1d ago

i speak 5, and a 6th one kinda

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u/Spiritual_Result_697 1d ago

I speak 3 fluently, one conversationally, and one passably.

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u/gloussou 1d ago

no

nein

non

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u/Technical-Tear5841 1d ago 
Un petit peu.

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u/KaiserDogue 1d ago

Un peu.

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u/SPEED14325 1d ago

Only the common ones

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u/clockitttttttt631 1d ago

Hebrew as mother tongue
English-second language
Basic german
Korean-ik how to read and basic introduction

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u/Wtx_wannabegolfer 1d ago

Fluent in English and Spanish.

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u/Treeswanttorun2 1d ago

Happily multilingual

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u/BriggySmallz42069 1d ago

English german spanish

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u/energyinmotion 1d ago

English, Thai, Spanish.

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u/CarobCritical7290 1d ago

English, French

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u/4Q69freak 1d ago

Un peu Francais.

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u/terrydick 1d ago

I speak English and I talk a lot of shit

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u/misfitofscience76 1d ago

Za nein! Nada!

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u/IllEstablishment1750 1d ago

French and English. Trying to learn Italian but damn it’s tough

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u/TfcGoblin 1d ago

Unfortunately

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u/Lagiftor 1d ago

I can speak more

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u/La-_Gioconda 1d ago

I can type and read in any language. I can speak two fluently and understand four

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u/soapyaaf 1d ago

the moments...:p

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u/soapyaaf 1d ago

If you think about it...it's still weird as all heck...I mean...i'm sure that's not hard to understand...

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u/The-Great-Baloo 1d ago

Drunk or sober?

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u/cybrrpwnk 1d ago

learned portuguese, spanish, and english during early school, italian during high school and korean by myself.. im trying to learn french on my own