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Trilinguals say the three languages you speak

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#1
Hasbulla

Learning one counts, please be serious. This is for a report I am doing with 2 friends. I'll start

English, Urdu, German

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werZy
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Portuguese, English, German (, Spanish)

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Hasbulla
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Nice, when did u learn all these, by yourself, school or just in the household?

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werZy
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PT mother tongue, EN at school, the other two living in Europe

#18
Hasbulla
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oh cool.

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TSM_Shreyash
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English, Hindi, Sanskrit

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Hasbulla
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damn you are part of the 1% who knows Sankskrit?

#16
TSM_Shreyash
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learnt it at school
it was compulsory

#20
Hasbulla
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oh wow.

#31
Bo0mShell
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Some schools teach basic sanskrit. It's not enough for having long convos tho

#43
Sem1-
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Does it differ a lot from Hindi?

#47
username_
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Sanskrit is more like an archaic form of hindi, both are written in the same script and have a similar vocabulary.

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Sem1-
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I see, thanks! I just looked up Sanskrit and in the pictures it looked like Hindi to me and that guy said something about 1% so I was wondering if there's a big difference.

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TSM_Shreyash
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hindi was originated from sanskrit

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Bo0mShell
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Not really. Hindi Marathi and Telugu have a lot of words from Sanskrit. These languages are made from Sanskrit. (Not sure if I am framing this correctly)

#54
Sem1-
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Btw do you see these languages used in daily life or is it just mainly Hindi? I mean like street signs, shop names, ads etc

#57
Bo0mShell
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It depends on where you live. I live in Maharashtra and shop names are written in either Marathi or both Marathi and English. Signs are mostly in both English and Marathi but sometimes it's just Marathi.
Pretty much same for every state.
For billboards, it just depends on what it is promoting

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Sem1-
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So theoretically you could drive to a different region and be unable to understand street signs?

#71
ssw
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Yes ,not everyone understand Hindi
This is major flow of having 200+ languages in one country

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Bo0mShell
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It mostly happens only when you go to a village/town in other state

#102
SnooTangerines
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This is legit a good question.

Yes this happens.

People think hindi is like a unified language in India. This could not be further from the truth. I lived for a couple of years in Chennai and barely anyone spoke Hindi. All they spoke was Tamil and English. This is true for all the south Indian states (Chennai in Tamil Nadu speaks Tamil, Karnataka speaks Kannad, Telangana speak Telugu, Kerala speaks Malayalam). In essence, there are around 22 major languages in India and depending upon where you go you can literally face a language barrier in your same country!

Also, people in Puducherry (A small place in south India also speak Portuguese)

There is a friend in my university from South India and he only communicates in English cause he does not know Hindi.

So technically English is the only language that people all around India speak, all other languages are regional in nature.

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Sem1-
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oh I see, thanks for the explanation :)

#106
SnooTangerines
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It's kinda like how English French and German all use the same Roman script but are different languages.

Similarly, the script used for Hindi (Devnagri) is shared by Sanskrit, Nepali, Konkani, Bhojpuri and Maithili.

They have quite a lot of shared words but grammar and other rules are very different.

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bloodysky
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English, Fiilipino, and a little bit of Spanish

#9
Hasbulla
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damn, nice

#103
SnooTangerines
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Isn't there different dialects of the Filipino language or do you just prefer to call in "Filipino" as a collective?

#131
bloodysky
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We have different dialects based on different regions but the national language of our country is FIlipino

#7
FIreFistOM
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English , Hindi , Marathi

#17
Hasbulla
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nice, I assume Marathi is a language spoken in India

#22
TSM_Shreyash
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yep it is spoken in maharashtra(state in india)

#72
ssw
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Marathi gang gang

#8
Rainyy
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English, Filipino, Tagalog

the two are different, trust me :)

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Hasbulla
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I trust you, lol
I was tempted to say hindi and urdu, since the vocab is very similair

#25
Rainyy
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if you learn a word from each language, can you claim to speak every language?
just a thought

#50
Hasbulla
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nah lol

#111
Meghnad
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If you know Urdu, I don't think you will have any problems understanding Hindi since the spoken Hindi language borrows a lot of words from Urdu and the grammar is basically the same.

#10
MilanTheMyth
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English, Hindi, Bhojpuri

can understand some Sanskrit, Awadhi, Gujarati, Marathi and Urdu

#15
Hasbulla
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damn, very nice

#39
bandwagondestroyer
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they are more like spain spanish and argentina spanish variation, i could be wrong

#11
TMosura
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Indonesian, English, conversational Filipino + Tagalog, conversational Sundanese

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Hasbulla
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sheeesh, bro speaks Sudanese

#19
TMosura
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Sudanese =/= Sundanese! Sundanese (Basa Sunda) is a local language to the western region of Java, spoken by the Sundanese people. I picked up some key phrases and sentences during my time there as a uni student.

#21
Hasbulla
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ooh Sundanese, I didn't see the n lol. still cool

#100
chloeburbank
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i tot it was sugondeez

#23
Supr3meGucci
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Hindi, English Punjabi
I can read and write each as well

#24
Bronze-Smurf
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English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujrati ezpz

#26
kamran
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Eng, Urdu and Punjabi

#61
JustEnjoying
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add me to that list as well

#27
LittleCaa
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English, Indonesian, and a lil bit of French

#28
Onliner
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English, malay, indonesian

#29
i_eat_chips
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hindi , english, punjabi(spoken form) , urdu(spoken form) , bhojpuri , maithili, a lil bit of awadhi , a lil bit of nepali , haryanvi , rajasthani , sanskrit(know how to read and understand it)

#30
yourfather
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eng, hindi, french(read write both) can understand punjabi and a lot of other indian regional languages

#32
PokemonMaster
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Indonesian, English, Javanese, Sundanese, Bataknese (just a little, I know what other people say even if I can't reply them)

If learning count, I ever learn Chinese and Japanese (like 8 years ago but can only read still can't hold a proper conversation)

#33
Hidden_Name
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Speak Read and write- English Hindi
Can understand but cannot read or write - Punjabi bit of French

#34
redlight
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English, Bangla, French (enough to read and write)

#36
Bo0mShell
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Bangla in Canada?

#90
BoF7ooM
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Bangladeshi living in canada?

#130
redlight
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Yes? Immigration is a thing my guy.

#35
Bo0mShell
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Marathi, Hindi, English, Sanskrit (basic), Spanish(basic), German(basic)

Languages I understand
Punjabi, Gujrati, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Marwadi

Typical West Indian

#42
Godson
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ay hai, boomshell bhai

#37
asseater4life
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spanish, dutch and english

#38
bandwagondestroyer
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english, hindi, arabic

#40
Godson
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english, hindi, gujarati, malayalam,tamil(basic)

#41
sp3cbro
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English, Hindi and Russian
(Rookie in Spanish and Portuguese)

#93
Johnny33
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Why tho you learned Russian?

#44
BLUMARS6
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english, chinese, polish

#45
Sem1-
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Are you Chinese living in Poland or are you just learning it?

#82
BLUMARS6
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polish living in hong kong, learning chinese at school

#46
WiseGorbachev
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Russian Arabic French (and English too obviously)

#49
delusional_paperrex_fan
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english , malay , chinese , canto , hokkien and little bit of japanese

#53
hiyo
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feel like chinese canto and hokkien fall in the same category tbh they're just diff dialects

#63
delusional_paperrex_fan
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canto and hokkien is same writing but when speaking it its different

#51
hiyo
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English, Mandarin, Spanish

#55
flu1d
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English, urdu, punjabi, sraiki. The last three resembles.

#56
GeZAhri
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English, German , Hindi , Bengali and Sanskrit

#58
Jbroz21
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English, Spanish, Tagalog, and also Cyphers ; - ;

#59
BIGGEST_LG_FAN
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English Bangoli Spanish

#60
Kuttush
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English, Hindi, Bengali

#62
BruhhhXdddd
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Turkish English German

#64
kushcash0331
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English, Hindi, Urdu (lol)
It counts ig
Also Understand Punjabi from my mom's side and Marwari from my dad's side

#66
pokedyo
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english, kannada fluent
Hindi/french not fluent but can manage a conversation most of the time

#67
373washoooi
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English, Tagalog, Japanese (I don't know if N4/N3 counts)

#68
trola
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my hometown language, my university town language, my national language, my neighbor country language, and english. EZ 5 languages

#84
Darkzeccos
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international

#69
helohelo
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Tagalog, Bengali, English

#112
Meghnad
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Damn, where did you learn Bengali from? I'm guessing you're from the Philippines?

#118
helohelo
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From the US, learned both languages from my parents

#119
Meghnad
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Wow, nice!

#70
ragegrexo
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German, English and a little bit of spanish

#73
Basilisk
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English,Hindi,Punjabi,French

#74
PlatOverlord
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Suka
Blyad
Idi nahui

#75
Crapycat
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English Hindi and Tamil

#76
CalypsoGHC
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I speak 4
German English French Spanish

#77
S0v4k
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My hometown language, English, Filipino, Basic Mandarin, and very small conversational Japanese

#78
Massbim
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This thread is not for na

#79
CalypsoGHC
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Maybe only for Florida where all the Latinos live lmao

#81
punkwildebeest
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english catalan spanish and i can mooostly understand french and italian

#83
Darkzeccos
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arabic french english

#85
Neoseki
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Odia, Hindi, English.

#86
wkeyspectre
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english, chinese and french

#87
Chovymaker
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English German Turkish

#89
Riizwan19xx
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English,Malayalam,French.

#91
gtngodyorukingdestruction
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PT-BR, English and Italian (Basic)

#92
fxllpe
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Portuguese, english and spanish

#94
maximumszn
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English, French, Polish

#95
NajibRazak
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English,malay, mandarin,Abit of german

#96
Telextro_786
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english, arabic and urdu

#97
jblancard
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portuguese, french and english

#98
Gsus
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I speak many but main ones r English Chinese Spanish(I will be in brazil only for a year)

#99
i_Luv_Eimi_Fukada
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Thai,Thai and Thai 😁😁

#101
chloeburbank
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i love thigs

#104
caoguo_jiu
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Turkish, Kurdish, Azerbaijani and a little Korean and English

#105
Vividogre
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English,Hindi,Marathi and my local dialect of miz language

#108
Bo0mShell
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What's miz?

#114
Meghnad
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They might have meant to say Mizo, not miz

#132
kushcash0331
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You don't speak any South Asian languages bro, you're a fake flagger lmfao

#137
Bo0mShell
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Literally said Hindi and Marathi. U ok buddy?

#107
ElPavlo
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English, Hungarian, Czech

#109
Origin
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english tamil german

#110
Monster_Of_Manila
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English,hindi,bengali (can only speak),can understand japanese and telugu

#113
makoidk
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eng tagalog, soon to be spanish :))

#115
fontea
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English French German

#116
Nisham
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Nepali, Hindi and English
Might learn German/French and Mandarin in the future

#117
durum
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Spanish, Catalan, English, French, average Barcelona man

#120
0_AwayFromKindness
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German and French being my foreign languages.Gujarati,Hindi and English being the native ones.

#121
Morettii
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spanish, english and currently learning portuguese

#123
kwe
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Olá!

#122
ALEISTER
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Dutch and Turkish native.
English is foreign one.
Learning German

#124
kwe
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This thread is full of smart ppl and I don't like it

#125
alubeN
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English, Malayalam and French

#127
spookmeister
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English, Latin, and German

#128
big_chungus69
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English, Russian, Korean fluent

Can understand Kazakh to a decent extent but can only have extremely basic conversations in it

#129
Vortexy
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Fluent in English, Korean, Armenian

basic knowledge of Spanish (3 years in school)

#133
number1_MIBR_hater
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Portuguese, English and Spanish

#134
ZoldyK
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English , German , French

#135
Thomaslee
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Tamil,Chinese,malay

#136
Dr_DoofenshmirtZ
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eng, malayalam, hindi, sanskrit, tamil

#138
p0tsuz
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english , portuguese , spanish and chinese/japonese(still studying)

#139
Thomaslee
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Keep getting at it bro 💪 sure you'll be able to learn Japonese soon👍👍

#140
kshah
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English, Spanish, Hindi, French

#141
Pocket
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English, Spanish, Chinese ( I want to learn German.)

#142
Thomaslee
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Me 2...I want to communicate with hitler

#143
kzeriar
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fluent in portuguese and english
intermediate in spanish and german
and some basics in japanese, old tupi and my conlang

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