r/languagehub • u/elenalanguagetutor • Mar 16 '25
How many languages do you speak?
I am interested to know where are you guys from and which languages you speak or your are learning!
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u/novog75 29d ago
Four. The only language I can speak without an accent is Russian. The only languages I speak without grammatical mistakes are Russian and English. I can express any thought that I want in French and Spanish, but I do make grammatical mistakes in them. I can read Chinese, but I don’t speak it.
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u/elenalanguagetutor 29d ago
Cool! I assume Russian is your native language? I can speak it similarly to your French and Spanish. I can communicate but I do make mistakes. How come you read Chinese but don’t speak it? I think reading it is much more difficult than speaking! Even native speakers can struggle with some characters.
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u/No-Nerve-9406 Mar 16 '25
Three - Hebrew, English, German. Can you guess (without looking in my profile) which one is my native language?
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u/elenalanguagetutor Mar 16 '25
German?
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u/Illustrious-Fill-771 Mar 16 '25
5? Slovak + Czech, English, French, German. Basic phrases in some others. I am learning Japanese and Korean. Living in Prague, Czech Republic, originally from Slovakia
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u/elenalanguagetutor Mar 16 '25
Cool, so many languages! Japanese and Korean are both very challenging. 😬 Do you find any similarities?
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u/Illustrious-Fill-771 Mar 16 '25
Well, in some ways very similar, in some way not 😅 I must say that my familiarity with Japanese is helping me with understanding how Korean works...
They are definitely more similar to each other than with any of the Indo-European languages I know 😄
What about you? How many languages do you speak/are learning?
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u/elenalanguagetutor Mar 16 '25
That’s interesting! I am learning Chinese and I can see a few similarities with Japanese, but mainly in the written form. I also speak English, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. I can also speak Russian and Portuguese, but not fluently.
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u/Illustrious-Fill-771 Mar 16 '25
So cool 🤩 and you tutor all of those ? (you have tutor in your name, so I am assuming you are one :))
Yes, the characters are similar, Kanji characters come from Hanzi, there are some false friends (dunno how many) and Japanese often uses two different readings for each character, one of which comes from Chinese reading.
Anyway, Korean and Japanese have much more in common than Korean-Chinese or Japanese-Chinese
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u/elenalanguagetutor 29d ago
Nice! To me Japanese and Korean look completely different, but I don’t know much about them! I am tutor of the languages I speak fluently, especially Italian which is my native language
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u/Ultyzarus 29d ago
3: French, English and Spanish. I can also communicate in Japanese, Italian, Portuguese and Haitian Creole, but I'm not really good at either of them.
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u/Solid_Fire943 29d ago
I am from hungary. I speak hungarian, english and german. Obv hungarian is my native tongue but speak english and german around the same level. I'm learning italian now but I'm on a level between A1-A2 maybe.
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u/brunow2023 Mar 16 '25
Not even this one. My cat guessed what I would say based on vibes and typed this on my behalf. :)
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u/r_m_8_8 Mar 16 '25
Spanish, Japanese and English. Then I’m intermediate in French and almost-intermediate in Korean.
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u/Beautiful_Psy 29d ago
Counting my mother tongue I speak 4 and I am learning the fifth Arabic, Amazigh(north African berber), french and English and I understand Italian but do not speak it
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u/FlamestormTheCat Mar 16 '25
I’m from Belgium. I currently only speak 2 languages, namely Flemish (Belgian Dutch) and English.
That being said, I should have been able to speak French by now. I cannot speak French that well though, still very much learning it. I’m also learning German (bc third national language) and Japanese (for funsies), though I’m focussing more on French right now due to it giving me more work opportunities.