What languages do you know?

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not enough.

ἐλθ' ἐς κορακας

Intermediate in French.

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^ Je crois que ce n'est pas vrai!

English. ;n; I know a little bit of Spanish.

my little modern hebrew sprout in my brain is growing

Have you consulted a neurosurgeon about that?

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!המוח שלי בסדר

!יש לך עצים במוח שלך

But can you pronounce Duinkerken the right way?
For native English speakers Duinkerken may be a better shibboleth than Scheveningen, which was used in WW2 to identify German speakers.

interesting, i..probably could, after a few tries maybe.

i can do consonant clusters like strč prst skrz krk rather well, definitely not vowel heavy rødgrød med fløde or Höyryjyrä though.

Limburgs (Dutch dialect ... has a typical feature: has a pitch accent like chinese)
Dutch
Bit of German
Bit of French
English
Pieces of Italian, Spanish, Latin
Some medical lingo
Just enough Malaysian to order a decent meal ...

I'm a native English speaker, I speak Russian fairly comfortably after majoring in it in college, and I want to study translation and become a translator of Russian. I understand a bit of Lithuanian, since I've read articles and listened to music and shows in that language frequently for a few years, but I can't speak it myself. I wish I could find a way to study it formally, because I know I would learn it so quickly after all my exposure to it.

My native language is English, I speak good Finnish and read and write it well, and I can speak some French and German and can read and write both languages well. Can still read some Russian, though have forgotten most of it.

I know English and Spanish. I also know "tourist level French". What I mean by that is, I can ask "How much does this baguette cost" and "I'll have some wine" or "Where is the toilet?"

And of course, the indispensable "Voulez vous coucher avec moi, c'est soir?"

I used to study German, but what I learned has almost completely faded from memory.

These days, this about sums it up: