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    - Native French, a bit better than average;
    - Understand, speak and write reconstructed English based on basic grammar and vocabulary, false friends from French and Google translate;
    - Understand, speak and write basic Spanish.

    Other Latin languages I never learnt but I can read without much difficulty Catalan and Italian and understand some of them spoken (Italian better than Catalan); written Portuguese is less easy and when spoken completely obscur; some Romanian when written but none of it spoken.

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    Native: Polish

    Fluent: English

    Fair good: Russian (thanks that I can understand Ukrainian and Byelorussian while listening or reading)

    Rather good understanding of Czech and Slovakian when listening or reading

    Limited knowledge of German

    Want to learn one of south Slavic language.

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    Slovak - native, both literary and local dialect (different from literary)
    Czech - secondary native
    English - advanced quite far ahead
    Polish - colloquial mix
    German - very basic

    I also understand Moravian, Rusyn dialects (mutually intelligible with Slovak) and Serbian.

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    Native Language: Castilian

    First Language of use : English

    Fluent in: French and Italian

    Getting there in: Polish

    Some skills with : Every other romance language

    Getting started with: Japanese

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    Native: English.

    Learned French at school for 5 years and still know almost nothing, somehow.

    Swedish at I would say an intermediate level, which I plan to continue with until I am near enough fluent, but I have been neglecting it recently. I can read it pretty fluently but speaking and listening is where I lack, I need to go slowly.

    Hope to move on to Norwegian after that! I would love to learn some Finnish too, I tried a while ago but it's difficult. Maybe something I'll attempt again in the future.

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    Spanish: Native level.
    English: Pretty good.
    Portuguese: Pretty good but still some language swapping, I borrow words unconsiously from Spanish.
    All other romance languages: Can only understand them.
    Hungarian: Very basic.
    Arabic: Very basic.

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    Native: Portuguese
    Fluent: English
    More or less: Spanish and Galician

    I also can understand a few things in Italian and French.

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    I'm a native speaker of English with an ability to speak French and Spanish at an equally bad level. I also know a bit of German.

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    My native language is Southern French

    I speak, read and understand : Provençal (Prouvençau de la Mar e Prouvençau dóu Rose), English (Britannic and American mixed, I think) and Catalan (Westerns Dialects/Valencian).

    I know a little bit Italian (I've learned it during two years, but I've forget it...).

    And I can understand by reading and usually speaking a little bit Castillan and Scots.

    (Also read the Cyrillic and Greek alphabet)
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    Ok. Might be a bit extreme, but to be honest i can't even remember all of them. But i'll try:

    Native, fluent: Lithuanian, Polish.

    Native, not-that-fluent-at-all-due-to-lack-of-practice: Belarussian, some kind of Low German dialect.

    Semi-native (spending half a year in England since childhood, later studying in a uni), fluent: English.

    Read, write using a dictionary, speak with terrible errors: German, French(school).

    Picked-up: Italian (living here).

    Understand: Spanish, written Portuguese (thx to French and Italian). Written Dutch. Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak, written Czech, written South Slavic languages (all).

    Being a major in Indo-European linguistics (Balto-Slavic focus) = some acquaintance with nearly all other I-E languages, living and extinct.

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