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Let's do a test.
How many languages do you speak/understand?

>> No.41249442

1.2

>> No.41249443

None

>> No.41249451

3

>> No.41249473

>>41249409
3 fluently
1 essentials
did i win?

>> No.41249477

>>41249409
Only speak American

>> No.41249508

3

>> No.41249523

1 fluent and 2 semi fluent

>> No.41249522

Almost 1

>> No.41249558

Anons, it hurts that people as retarded as IRyS and Kiara are multilingual and I'm not.

>> No.41249564

Guessing just about anyone who doesn't have English as a first language speaks 3 to some extent. Native, English, and one more from school. I can understand 3 languages, but only speak English.

>> No.41249579

I can speak English, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German and French.

>> No.41249584

english is the only language you ever need

>> No.41249593

>>41249473
Congratulations! You won Free hololive plushie!
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>> No.41249627

>>41249409
English
Some japanese
Italian so I can kinda understand certain other romance languages
Sardinian lmao

>> No.41249640

>>41249409
8 or 4, Depending on who you ask. Some languages are almost the same but they are technically different languages, so I can flex.

>> No.41249644

2.2

>> No.41249646

I speak English, German, and Japanese. A little bit of Korean.

>> No.41249676

>>41249584
t. seething monolingual imbecile.

>> No.41249694

english, german, thai, japanese

>> No.41249698

>>41249627
What the hell is sardinian LoL, do you talk to canned fish or what

>> No.41249721

>>41249593
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrJR1GJJIBg

>> No.41249759

>>41249409
i really want to become good at japanese desu

>> No.41249763

2.5

>> No.41249849

>>41249409
english and enough japanese to understand most of my oshi’s zatsu streams

>> No.41249856

>>41249698
Sardinia is one of those mid-sized islands to the west of the Italian peninsula. It's a weird dialect of Italian or a separate language depending on who you ask.

>> No.41249880

Everyone who reply 1 is american
Everyone who reply between 2 and 3 is probably European
Everyone who reply 3 or more is SEA
JOP couldn’t even read OP and didn’t reply

2 and now learning JP t. europoor

>> No.41249907

I can understand three languages when listening. Two of those I speak (badly), the other is English. I can understand a lot more just reading, but streams aren’t done through text, so I can’t really watch ES or FR streams (not that those get recommended to me anyway).
None of those languages I just mentioned are JP. Fucking pain.

>> No.41249950

>>41249698
Funnily enough Sardinia exports a lot of tuna to japan
>>41249856
It's considered a language because it doesn't have anything to do with Italian basically, it a latin dialect. Still, only a million souls or something like that speak it so it's literally to pad your resume

>> No.41249987

>>41249950
Well you gotta have alot of fish to get name like that

>> No.41250011

>>41249627
If it makes you feel better, you can console yourself knowing your native language is closer to the original Latin than any other, and the second language that’s basically your second native language is almost as close. Also, maggot cheese, which is unironically based and something my burgerlander ass will never eat until I visit (because wildlife/produce import laws).
On the other hand, you live on Sardinia, and we all know how much of a shit the Italian government gives about the islands…

>> No.41250016

>>41249880
Would British, Australians, non-Quebecois Canadians, New Zealanders, or non-Afrikaans white South Africans bother to learn another language generally?

>> No.41250070

>>41249409
2 fluently
I'm trying to learn at least 2 more

>> No.41250106
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>>41249409
English, Italian and Romanian. I will not do my reps.
>>41249627
>Sardinian
based Watamate

>> No.41250168

Only 2 fluently, i gave up learning Japanese once it got to kanji but maybe i should try it again

>> No.41250173

>>41249409
I speak violence

>> No.41250176

>>41250016
You sound like you’re asking a rhetorical question, which would make sense since we all know what the answer is. I don’t even blame them, either. It’s actually hard to learn other languages in those countries because you have to actively put in effort. You don’t have a natural motivating factor that makes it easy to start, you have to have the motivation to keep going (like everyone) but also an extra strong motivation to start (which is unique to anglophones and japs and chinks).
Shit like this is why I’m glad I’m not white or black. Because the only reason I’m a burgerlander who can speak more than one language is that I learned English at school, not from my parents…

>> No.41250225

>>41250011
Honestly if you already have money and want to live there Sardinia is one of the most beautiful places in the Mediterranean

>> No.41250226

>>41250168
Just remember to break it down into radicals and roots. It’s not memorizing thousands of kanji, just hundreds of roots and dozens of radicals. Kind of like root words and prefixes/suffixes in languages with alphabets.
I probably shouldn’t be giving advice, though. I know Mandarin, so I realize I’m playing using cheats.

>> No.41250272

>>41249409
I can speak English and Portuguese fluently, i am able to understand most Spanish and i'm currently N3 in Japanese, but i'm horrible at speaking it because i'm self-taught and have nobody to practice with

>> No.41250312

>>41250173
Say something in Violence

>> No.41250325

>>41250226 (me)
If it’s the multiple readings that trips you up, think of it like if the dog emoji could be read two different ways: “dog”, like the native English (kun’yomi), or “can-“, like the Latin prefix (on’yomi).
“Emoji that can mean either an English word or a Latin prefix” probably doesn’t make it sound easier, but it’s a useful metaphor. And sometimes a good analogy makes it a lot easier. Idk, maybe someone will find that helpful.

>> No.41250346

>>41250312
*punches you*

>> No.41250363

>>41250272
Do you really have to practice speech tho?
Unless you expect to go to jp speaking is not that necessary for you

>> No.41250378

>>41249880
ENTER BALKANS
Speaking Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin (all the same shit btw). Understand like 50% of Slovenian and Macedonian (and with that of course, Bulgarian)+ learned English since 1st grade, Russian since 4th (can understand like 90%, but cant write for shit), and Japanese for the past 4 years (I cant write or read for shit though but I can easily follow a light topic zatsu).

>> No.41250406

>>41249987
I’m pretty sure that was just a joke, but sardines are actually named after Sardinia, not the other way around. Still confirms the stereotype of Sardinia and fish though.

>> No.41250417

>>41250346
Good day to you too.

>> No.41250431

>>41250363
I mean sure, just being able to read and listen to it already accomplishes most of my goals when it comes to the language, but it feels incomplete. I want to really learn it, so i'll work on spearking too.

>> No.41250445

>>41250378
> can understand like 90%, but cant write for shit
So, you’re a Croat or Bosniak, not a Serb?

>> No.41250492

>>41250431
Well it's alway good to improve. Good on you Anon

>> No.41250583

>>41249856
>>41249698
it's an island full of smelly gangsters and no albanians
and everybody's grandfather was a glover
as in made gloves for a living
no execptions
motherfuckers crazy about gloves on sardineland for some reason
i didn't make the rules, just reporting what i've seen
fucking weird glovermotherfuckers

>> No.41250602

always wondered how people here watch JP streamers live without knowing the language

>> No.41250617

>>41249409
fluently speak and understand English and Mandarin
Barely able to understand and speak Japanese

>> No.41250710

>>41250602
Some people just like to listen to vchuuba's noises apparently. And in some cases there's translator's in chat

>> No.41250720

>>41249409
i can speak 2 fluently and understand 5.

>> No.41250753

3, English, Japanese and Welsh

>> No.41250768

German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, a tad Russian.

>> No.41250777

>>41250445
Serb/Croat mixed. But I lived in the US for 12 years and forgot a lot of cyrillic alphabet.

>> No.41250889

>>41250768
What the hell are you

>> No.41250890

>>41250378
All those language skills and still you're all swarthy little thieves. Why is that? Return my hubcabs at once.

>> No.41251105

I learned English more than 20 years ago. I'm fluent but I might have an accent.
I can read Japanese quite well and used to do fan translations of manga and games. Audio is a bit harder than text because you don't have time to think about it, but I can watch streams just fine. I have zero experience with speaking though, and if I want to translate something TO Japanese I have to spend a lot of time looking things up.
And of course my native language. So three, or two and a half to account for the flaws in my Japanese.

>> No.41251172

>>41249409
2

>> No.41251207

>>41251105
Say your native >:[

>> No.41251249

>>41249676
what language are you speaking right now?

>> No.41251490

Fluent Scandinavian languages (Except spoken Danish)
Fluent English
Conversational Japanese, took a year in school and spare time reps
Rudimentary Spanish from school, mandatory

>> No.41251568

>>41249409
English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean

>> No.41251574

>>41249409
Just one although I speak Scottish and literally everything is said differently.
According to the resources I use I'm almost at intermediate level of Japanese but I don't really believe that.

>> No.41251690

>>41249409
English, Spanish, Japanese and a bit of Portuguese...

>> No.41251869

>>41249409
0. All my skills are self-taught and worthless in the real world.

>> No.41251925

>>41250889
All those languages would be theoretically spoken by my family (except Japanese but it's given he's a weeb).

>> No.41252105

Native english, good enough Chinese since I took it for like 6 years in school, I can understand a lot of Japanese but can't speak, write, or read it.

>> No.41252138

i speak english, japanese, indonesian, arabians, californians, lasvegas, yamaha, suzuki.

>> No.41252245

>>41249409
English, Portuguese, German (b1, still studying tho)

>> No.41252352

>>41249409
English, tiny bits of French and Spanish.

>> No.41252529
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41252529

I'm a fluent speaker of 2
3 I can read and write but I'd freeze up in a conversation.
The children I'll give to Watame will start life by speaking 5 languages aside from their own.

>> No.41252538

>>41250176
Burgerland always got spoonfed after all. Even with foreign entertainments they always ask for english

>> No.41252818

>>41252538
In certain parts theres a lot of spanish speaking fuckers. The grocery store near where i live has mostly guatemalans who only speak spanish. Its fucking annoying.
Also you are not required to learn a second language in american education. At least not in new england

>> No.41252848

>>41250176
It has absolutely nothing to do with it being hard to learn languages, it has to do with generations of parents being ashamed to pass on their languages to their children. Most people who only speak English did not have Native English speakers in their ancestry. But the governments incentivized crushing out every other language back before they decided it was easier to just get rid of Europeans altogether.

>> No.41252870

>>41249409
sdfhaudhfad

>> No.41252913

>>41249409
English and Spanish as native.
Fluent in Italian, was much better when I had the chance to actually talk in that language 24/7.
Some French.
Honestly I ought to have learned Japanese.

>> No.41252955

>>41252818
Depends on the state. Where I live you were required to take 2 years of foreign language in high school. Note that this does not constitute learning a language. I took 5 years of Spanish, got straight As, and I can...read a menu, sort of. If you don't use a language you tend to immediately forget it.

>> No.41253009

>>41249409
3. Pretty typical number for EU.

>> No.41253205

>>41253009
To add to that, those languages would be English, Finnish, German.
i also know basics of Japanese and Swedish, but the fluency is at such a low level I could not answer '5' at any honest capacity.

>> No.41253925

dos

>> No.41254048

>>41252848
My parents being portuguese tried to teach it to me but my older brother was so fucking annoying about it i refused to learn. And parents instead of punishing him just kind of gave up. So English only forever.

>> No.41254535

>>41251207
Fine, it's PTB.

>> No.41254609

>>41249409
English, Russian, Korean
Doing my best to learn Japanese now

>> No.41255016

2 fluent, 2 enough to understand the gist of the conversation

>> No.41255190

>>41249409
5. Only a tiny bit of French though.

>> No.41256329

>>41249409
2 fluently and I can somewhat understand 2 others

>> No.41257742

>>41249409
2 fluent
Japanese i can understand fluently i never tried speaking it though so well i don't know probably horrible
then i can get a gist of german, italian and spanish and talk a little bit of german but it's quite rusty.

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41257954

>>41249409
fluent in 3 including native and english
can understand and communicate in 5 other, although most are related to my mother tongue
very rusty in german
currently learning japanese and spanish

>> No.41258024

>>41249409
English
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese

Basic Japanese

>> No.41258025

>>41249409
2, almost 3.

>> No.41258028

>>41250890
>Return my hubcabs at once
NEVAH!

>> No.41260367

>>41249409
1 fluently
1 semi-fluent, decayed from disuse
2 functional/essential, could survive using

>> No.41260716

I am fluent in English, Proto-Indoeuropean, Sumerian, Atlantean, Hyperborean, Lemurian, Murori and I'm learning prehistoricalFinnish and Hwan Korean.

>> No.41261835

>>41260716
I KNEEL

>> No.41263426

Fluent: German and English (native is german)
Basics: Japanese and Latin (if dead languages even count)

>> No.41267064

>>41250168
>i gave up learning Japanese once it got to kanji
so you gave up in a week?
sounds like you never really wanted it

>> No.41268835

native: English
intermediate: Latin
basic: Japanese

>> No.41268956

>>41249409
Spanish Native
English fluent
Japanese (still learning, very limited)

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41269284

One, but I know a little Spanish.

>> No.41274883

>>41267064
japs should learn english if they want our white big money.

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>>41249409
Speak two languages, but with one enabling me to understand a third. English and Bahasa Malaysia. BM allows me to understand a bit of Indonesian, but for lengthy talks both me and the indog would confuse each other.

>>41274883
Everyone should learn English if they want each other's money. It makes me seethe that most japs never bothered while being the powerhouse for animation and games. I hate their moon runes too.

>> No.41279764

konnichiwa my dude

>> No.41280258

>>41249409
Native: Polish (kurwa)
Fluent: English, Czech
Basic: Spanish
Very basic: Portuguese

>> No.41280510

>>41249409
Portuguese, English, Spanish

>> No.41280552

Im a spic, so I speak spanish and english fluently, there's zero reason to learn any other language(maybe chinese, but I don't like bugland) I already know the 2 most spoken languages in the world.
Inb4: chinese and hindi. I do not count bug countries.

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>>41250583
fucking hell you are telling me this is real?

>> No.41280797

>>41249409
Spanish
English
and a bit of German

>> No.41280998

>>41280552
>I do not count bug countries.
so... you don't speak any languages?

>> No.41281647

>>41280552
You’re not technically wrong, I guess. In terms of “usefulness”, there’s only one language anyone needs, and that’s English. Because in countries where most people don’t speak English, the only people you would probably care about as a businessman or other expat all do.
Once you know English, it’s just a question of what languages you want to speak. And there’s plenty of reasons other than money that you’d want to speak with people in a language other than English.
I agree with you on Chinese, though. I guess I’m glad I know it, but its usefulness is really overrated, since over 90% of people who speak it are zhangs, and nobody wants to talk to zhangs.

>> No.41281870

>>41279024
There’s historical reasons for that. In the early days, selling anime abroad was a bitch to do, so it wasn’t worth focusing on. The meta they developed (merch collabs, manga adaptations, connecting to the growing gaming fandom) ended up being so specific to Japan that nowadays, going abroad (where that structure isn’t in place) is way riskier and leads to less surefire profit than focusing at home.
Yes, this is my rrat as to why Cover is so incompetent with HoloEN and is fucking it up. They have no idea how to make it grow, and all the correct ideas (I think) will require them to invest way more money than they’re willing.

>> No.41284216

>>41249558
Do your reps

>> No.41284365

>>41249409
2. I wish I could learn the /vt/ one/.

>> No.41284622
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41284622

I’m Indian. Did I win?

>> No.41285192

>>41249558
Learning a language is normally born out of necessity rather than intelligence. Unless someone has some kind of gift for languages, those speak more than one eitheir do because they live or do business in a place where it's necessary, or because they are otherwise forced to learn it. Your brain goes to the path of least resistance: learning a language by yourself without strong reasons is fighthing against yourself. It's no wonder that native English speakers have a hard time to learn anything else.

Self-studying a language is an incredibly difficult thing to do, especially if your objective is to become fluent in it, rather than just "speak it" like a tourist.
Just imagine someone telling you that they want to become a mathematician purely by self-studying because they like or are interested in maths. Not only that, they tell you that they want to achieve a "university level" of mastery in the field, just by doing 30 minutes reps per day. That would be insane. Yet, this would likely still be easier than achieving basic mastery in a foreign language by yourself that way, especially when that language is far removed from whatever native language you speak.

Could you imagine yourself reading a newspaper article you never read before or watch a news report you never heard before, understand it, convey its content to someone else, then discuss it with them while formulating new ideas about it, all in a foreign language? How many years would it take for you to do that? And more importantly, do people who pretend to speak multiple languages online actually manage such low level of mastery?
The difficulty of language learning (outside of necessity) is often forgotten because of obvious pseudo polyglots on youtube, or retarded redditors who pretend they learned the nihongo using duolingo.

People like Kiara are anomalies, not the norm, Anon.

>> No.41285539

>>41249409
The supreme language of the world English.

>> No.41287798

>>41249409
2 fluently. I've also been learning Japanese on and off for a year, but I think I'm going to drop it now that I have to juggle college and a full-time job.

>> No.41289056

>>41281870
This is actually one of the reasons anime is still good. It's made for a different cultural context and somehow stays separate (and vaguely fresh, even if it's of course full of tired cliches of its own) from everything else approaching the so-called "marketable American cultural porridge" purely for financial reasons.

>> No.41289251

>>41249880
Fuck you for not even acknowledging south America

>> No.41289298

>This many "people" responding with Mandarin
Go back

>> No.41289579

>>41279024
There's a reason why big countries like China, India, Indonesia, or Brazil are mostly inward looking, because they're big enough to survive by themselves. Japan is pretty similar, they only have 120M people but their economy is big enough for them to focus on their own market, so they don't bother to focus much internationally. It might be hard to comprehend especially if you come from a small country like Malaysia, but it is what it is. Why bother to export when you can make easier profits domestically which you're familiar with? You can't do that when your country is too small, you have no choice but orbiting bigger country(s) to survive.

>> No.41290357

>>41249409
4

>> No.41290401

>>41249409
Somalian
Arabic
English
Japanese (basic)

>> No.41290643

>>41249409
A reminder that Korone said Taiwan in this stream and there was no problem.
It was only because Coco bragged about Taiwan that she got blowback.

>> No.41291722

>>41285192
Kiara isn't that weird to know Japanese now. She lived in Japan for years. To know if she was weird you'd have to go back in time and see at what stage she actually attained fluency and so on. There's levels of language mastery, there's the people skilled at picking up all the basics quickly (polyglots on youtube) who can't actually speak the language and then the people who can actually blend in with the locals. You can't get to that second step without actually being immersed in the locals.

>> No.41292377

>>41290643
Nice narrative mr. zhang

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>>41249409
The only language that matters; English. You WILL cater to me, I WILL not learn another language.

>> No.41293990

>>41267064
It took much more than a week to learn both hiragana and katakana as well as conversation essentials and a bunch of phrases, but I only did like 10 minutes each day. I didn't start looking at kanji until after I had some basic grasp of the rest but they didn't make any sense to me.

>> No.41295570

>>41249409
2 fluent
2 barely comprehensible

>> No.41295687

>>41249409
Two fluently, although one is virtually useless
I'm conversational with a third.
I'm supposed to be learning a 4th for the university course I'm not but its a romance language so fuck that

>> No.41295760

>>41249409
2. I wouldn't call myself "fluent" in Japanese, but I can and do hold actually conversations with natives so I say it counts.

>> No.41296335

speak english and norwegian fluently

dabble in spanish and japanese

>> No.41296706

>>41249409
>Indonesian flag before usa
BASED

>> No.41297604

>>41249409
I speak French, German and English. I can read a bit of Latin.

>> No.41297645

Dutch, German, English and un petit peu French.

>> No.41297800

Spanish, english and some portuguese

>> No.41298027

>>41249409
English, Spanish, Italian, can read latin, started to figure out some moonspeak from listening to enough subbed stuff.

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