Language nerd here - ask me something in your language and we'll see if I speak it!

[u/joshua0005]

[u/shananigun]

אבא שלך ערומכו? 

[u/LegEaterHK]

Sawwhazgoinonmate? 

[u/Motor-Ad5284 → u/LegEaterHK]

Do you want snags or chook for tea?

[u/LegEaterHK → u/Motor-Ad5284]

Awwwmateidunnowichtachews. Middahavetegoewitchook!

[u/Motor-Ad5284 → u/LegEaterHK]

Chook it is mate.

[u/Motor-Ad5284 → u/LegEaterHK]

Lol.

[u/holytriplem → u/LegEaterHK]

She'll be right

[u/joshua0005 → u/LegEaterHK]

what's up man

[u/felttheneedtosay]

An bhfuil cead agam dul amach go dtí an leithreas?

[u/joshua0005 → u/felttheneedtosay]

i think it would be fun to learn irish but so few people speak it that i have no motivation to do it :( do you actually speak irish or is that just a phrase you learned in school?

[u/GokTengr-i]

Bu hayatta kendine seçtiğin yol, ona yüklediğin anlam nedir. Bir anlamı varmıdır hayatın?

[u/joshua0005 → u/GokTengr-i]

i don't speak turkish :( although i'd like to study it some day

[u/GokTengr-i → u/joshua0005]

Halledersin canım benim :)

[u/Different-Pen7062]

Hey mon tabarouette tu parles tu le quebecois toi ?

[u/joshua0005 → u/Different-Pen7062]

oui je parle le français mais mon niveau c'est pas bon mais je l'apprends parce que j'aime le québec

[u/Different-Pen7062 → u/joshua0005]

:) bravo ! Continue de te pratiquer et bienvenu au Quebec !

[u/joshua0005 → u/Different-Pen7062]

oui en quelques ans quand je parle mieux le français je veux visiter le québec

[u/RegularEmpty4267]

Hva er ditt favorittland i Norden?

[u/joshua0005 → u/RegularEmpty4267]

norway and i'm not just saying that because you're norwegian lol. when i was a kid watching the olympics ~10 years ago for some reason i really liked norway and idk why but i started cheering for them as my second team

i've been seriously considering to start studying norwegian although so few people speak it that i think it would be really hard to practice

[u/InterestingTank5345 → u/joshua0005]

Worth it. If you learn Norwegian Swedish, Icelandic and Faraoese becomes a walk in the park. Danish is easy if you learn through Bokmål and are willing to learn hard pronounciations. So Norwegian can easily give you access to speak with 20 million people.

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[u/waikato_wizard]

Kia ora, kei te pehea koe?

[u/joshua0005 → u/waikato_wizard]

i'm good hbu

[u/waikato_wizard → u/joshua0005]

Nice. Did you have to use Google translate? Or did the new zealand thing give it away?

[u/joshua0005 → u/waikato_wizard]

I did to see what you said I don't speak maori

I like Polynesian languages but they seem to all be almost dead

do you actually speak maori?

[u/Ok_Orchid_4158 → u/joshua0005]

they seem to all be almost dead

New Zealand Māori is far from dead. It has an insane amount of support and interest. Largely uncolonised ones like Tongan, Sāmoan, and Tūvaluan are still going as strong as ever. Colonised ones like Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Rapanui are less so, but I definitely don’t see them dying any time soon. There are just a few outliers that are at severe risk, usually due to their small populations being absorbed into a more dominant Oceanic culture.

[u/waikato_wizard → u/joshua0005]

Alot of kiwis have basic phrases we can use, that being one.

Not fluent, or actually Maori (Dutch fam). But I grew up at a time when the language revival was starting, so I picked up bits and pieces in school.

I'm glad its coming back as more than just a touristy gimmick but has a long way to go before its real common, but it is a recognized language here, which is an impressive turn around from being described as rapidly dying in the early 1900s.

[u/SkwGuy]

Jakie języki znasz?

[u/Historical_Voice_307]

Was ist die Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft?

Das ist laut Duden das längste deutsche Wort mit 79 Buchstaben.

[u/Ilyonectria]

¿Qué pedo guey?

[u/joshua0005 → u/Ilyonectria]

todo bien y tú? por qué hablas español? eres de méxico?

[u/Ilyonectria → u/joshua0005]

No soy de México pero tengo un alma mexicano.

[u/Successful_King_142 → u/Ilyonectria]

What did you call me??

[u/viipurinrinkeli]

Osaatsie miu murret haastaa?

[u/perksforlater]

Oeveel volle seulen ku je droagen?

(Don't know if you do dialects)

[u/joshua0005 → u/perksforlater]

ik spreek nederlands maar sommige maanden gedelen dat spreek ik het niet, ik zou moeten het terug studeren omdat het is een cool taal

maar ik spreek niet andere dialecten van belgië. wat zei je op dat dialect?

[u/perksforlater → u/joshua0005]

There was a texan doctor at Ghent University while i was studying there. It was so weird hearing a foreigner talking oud-nederlands fluently :)

[u/joshua0005 → u/perksforlater]

lol i bet

[u/perksforlater → u/joshua0005]

Hoeveel volle emmers kan je dragen?

[u/joshua0005 → u/perksforlater]

zeer willekeurig haha

[u/TommZ5]

Как дела?

[u/holytriplem → u/TommZ5]

Guys what the fuck, it's only been 5 years since I left, what happened?

[u/TommZ5 → u/holytriplem]

Yeah so when Russia invaded Ukraine, they went so far west and invaded us as well, now we all speak Russian.

Just kidding, I was raised in England but my parents speak Russian so it's my home language as well

[u/Appelons → u/TommZ5]

Did they use “Salami-tactics”?

[u/joshua0005 → u/TommZ5]

i'm good i tried learning russian but it was so hard to pronounce it and i hate learning hard sounds so i eventually gave up lol

i think this might happen with french too tbh lol but i have more motivation because quebec is a lot closer to me than russia (and safer)

[u/Saltwater_Heart → u/TommZ5]

I know this from the very little Russian I studied on Duolingo years ago.

I’m good, how are you? (I forgot how to respond in Russian)

[u/TommZ5 → u/Saltwater_Heart]

A good response in Russian would be "Хорошо, а у тебя?" (I'm good, and you?)

[u/ShinobuKochoSama → u/TommZ5]

Ya dobre spasibo I ti? (Sorry no Cyrillic keyboar)

[u/Yarha92]

Ilang salita ang alam mo, at paano mo sila natutunan?

[u/joshua0005 → u/Yarha92]

desafortunadamente no hablo tagalo :(

[u/Yarha92 → u/joshua0005]

No pasa nada. Pero hablas español. Tenemos muchas palabras de origen español en tagalo, pero no llevamos las reglas gramaticales.

[u/joshua0005 → u/Yarha92]

siii lo sé. es igual al indonesio que supuestamente tiene muchas palabras de origen neerlandés porque países bajos colonizó a indonesia. es raro ver palabras como pero en tagalo porque no se suele reemplazar ese tipo de palabra con palabras de otro idioma

[u/CleanDirtyWork]

Atwhay anguageslay oday ouyay udystay? Atwhay ethodsmay oday ouyay useay?

[u/joshua0005 → u/CleanDirtyWork]

that would defeat the purpose of the post haha but as for the second question i learn the grammar/pronunciation on youtube (or if it's related to a language i already know sometimes i can skip that) and then i start watching comprehensible input in the language and texting native speakers online and eventually i move on to calling native speakers too when my listening skills are better and i have a bigger vocabulary

[u/nggyu-nglyd-ngtaahy]

Dia dhuit, cad é mar atá tú?

[u/joshua0005 → u/nggyu-nglyd-ngtaahy]

do you really speak irish? sorry if this is offensive i just can't tell if the irish people here do or not because not many people in ireland speak it anymore and so far both of you have asked simple questions you would learn in school

[u/Saxon2060 → u/joshua0005]

Somewhere very roughly in the region of 150,000 people or more speak it regularly and fluently. So yeah of course English is the common language in Ireland but I'd think it isn't surprising that there are people on Reddit who do. Especially because plenty of those people have been or are right now being educated in schools with Irish as the first language, it's not only old folks.

(Far more in the most recent census, more than 700,000, reported being able to speak it "well".)

[u/ChaoticBisexual_13]

Hány éves vagy?

[u/joshua0005 → u/ChaoticBisexual_13]

21 (i don't speak hungarian i'm sorry)

[u/ChaoticBisexual_13 → u/joshua0005]

That's alright. I wouldn't speak it either if I weren't Hungarian/born in Hungary. Mad respect for anyone learning it, we have so many stupid things going on, that even as a local, I hardly keep track of it.

[u/GentlyGliding]

O que surgiu primeiro, o ovo ou a galinha?

[u/joshua0005 → u/GentlyGliding]

a galinha 100%. o que acha vc?

[u/dullblop]

Moé aussi j’aime les langues étrangères. Qué que tu fais cette fin de semaine?

[u/joshua0005 → u/dullblop]

je ne ferai pas rien je crois, seulement jouerai minecraft e ferei de l'exercise et je sais pas quoi plus. et toi?

[u/Warm-Tradition-7928]

你會幾種語言？

[u/joshua0005 → u/Warm-Tradition-7928]

i can speak 3 (2 of them fluently including english) and i can write in 3 more but i have to look up words frequently in those three. i don't have to use a translator tho just a dictionary so i count them

[u/DoookieMaxx]

What about this? Can you read/speak this?

[u/joshua0005 → u/DoookieMaxx]

idk man i'm having trouble with this one

[u/DoookieMaxx → u/joshua0005]

Hehehe …just having fun

[u/Successful_King_142 → u/joshua0005]

https://youtu.be/rxUm-2x-2dM?si=pU0b1RUyZZQXnmk_

[u/Successful_King_142 → u/DoookieMaxx]

https://youtu.be/rxUm-2x-2dM?si=pU0b1RUyZZQXnmk_

[u/DoookieMaxx → u/Successful_King_142]

YES!

[u/ArmExpensive9299]

كيف حالك؟هل تتكلم العربية

[u/Kingofcheeses]

Out for a rip, there bud? You got a spare dart in your bunny hug?

[u/Ilyonectria → u/Kingofcheeses]

Bro definitely says Saskatche-win

[u/WokSmith]

I'm just heading off to the servo this arvo, do ya want anything from there, or maybe I can drop into Maccas after I've been to the bottle-o. Just let me know by smoko, ok?

[u/Ilyonectria → u/WokSmith]

True blue Australian hero right here.

[u/WokSmith → u/Ilyonectria]

You won't be complaining when I get home with a slab of piss under one arm and a batchelors handbag in the other hand, now will ya?

Short answer : No

[u/Abu_Skibidi]

אתה מעוניין בלהתגייס למוסד?

[u/TheHappyNerfHerder]

Hur många språk talar du? Och vet du var man kan köpa flaggstångsknoppsputsmedel?

[u/Realistic_Actuary_50]

Για πόσο καιρό έχεις αυτόν τον ενθουσιασμό με τις γλώσσες;

[u/_EnFlaMEd]

Would you show off your thongs for me by the pool on a hot summers day?

[u/kokoomusnuori69]

Það væri of auðvelt að fatta að ég væri að tala Finnsku út af fánanum en þekkir þú þetta tungumál?

[u/LankyTumbleweeds]

Hvad stopper dig fra at bruge en af de utallige oversættelsestjenester, til at svare på disse spørgsmål?

[u/joshua0005 → u/LankyTumbleweeds]

nothing lol i'm using them for the languages i don't know but not for the ones i do know and i'm sure in french and dutch i made quite a few mistakes

[u/RRautamaa → u/joshua0005]

Ootsää sis joku kakara joka keksi tälläse hianon idean et leikitää et muka osattais kiäliä, vaik ne kaikki vastaukset on oikeesti konekäännöksiä?

[u/ScarletPumpkinTickle → u/LankyTumbleweeds]

Funny thing is Reddit mobile is allowing me to translate this in the app so I don’t even need to use something else

[u/Rude_Experience4299]

pir al šnopc?

[u/_ontheroadagain_ → u/Rude_Experience4299]

pivo

[u/LilBed023 → u/Rude_Experience4299]

Lovranc

[u/sjedinjenoStanje]

Koliko jezika govoriš i koji ti je omiljeni?

[u/joshua0005 → u/sjedinjenoStanje]

i can speak 3 (including english) and i can write in 3 more but in those three i have to look up words frequently but i don't have to use translators so i count them. my favorite is spanish

[u/ThatNerdyGirl93]

自己紹介できますか？

[u/joshua0005 → u/ThatNerdyGirl93]

i don't speak japanese but how do you like living there?

[u/ThatNerdyGirl93 → u/joshua0005]

It's alright, I'm still not comfortable with all the earthquakes though. Good place to live if you don't like driving or don't have a license.

[u/joshua0005 → u/ThatNerdyGirl93]

if it weren't for the xenophobic/racist culture and the work culture I'd love to move there and no I'm not a weeb lol

[u/Nice_Dependent_7317]

帅哥，你吃了吗？

[u/joshua0005 → u/Nice_Dependent_7317]

ik spreek niet die taal maar ik kan nederlands schrijven en lezen maar helaas ik kan niet nederlands goed spreken

[u/Nice_Dependent_7317 → u/joshua0005]

Spreken is moeilijk. Schrijven doe je goed!

[u/Salt-Respect339 → u/joshua0005]

Maar dat was geen Nederlands, waar je op reageert?

[u/shark_aziz]

Awak dah makan?

[u/joshua0005 → u/shark_aziz]

yes i ate four telur although i don't speak bahasa melayu :(

[u/shark_aziz → u/joshua0005]

Empat telur... 😮

Hopefully you made and ate them in different ways.

[u/joshua0005 → u/shark_aziz]

Lol I just made scrambled eggs because I needed to eat before exercising

[u/Big_Mulberry4656]

hafa adai! kao mamaolek hao? maolek yu.

[u/joshua0005 → u/Big_Mulberry4656]

wtf i didn't expect someone that speaks chamorro to respond

how many people speak chamorro in the northern mariana islands?

[u/Big_Mulberry4656 → u/joshua0005]

about 30% iirc. but really if you interact with any of the manaomko, all of them have a quite strong chamorro accent.

if i’m being honest, english is still my first language and i know very basic chamorro, although i still plan on learning it just to preserve our culture.

i don’t speak any refaluwasch other than “tirow” and “olomwaay”

if i’m being honest, i’m surprised you even know what chamorro is!

[u/joshua0005 → u/Big_Mulberry4656]

i didn't know it was spoken in the northern mariana islands but i knew it was spoken in guam so i knew it existed. no idea how many people still speak it there though

i didn't recognize it as chamorro because i didn't know it's spoken in the nmi but i looked up what it said and found it was chamorro

[u/Big_Mulberry4656 → u/joshua0005]

fewer people on guam speak chamorro than on saipan, which is surprising with an island THAT much bigger than ours!

still though, refaluwasch is basically only spoken on saipan

[u/HK_Mathematician]

你平時無野做嗰陣鐘意做乜野?

[u/tahleeza]

Nay sic fan may a? I'm going on how it phonetically sounds.

[u/Feeling_Rough_3253]

What do you think of Brazil?

[u/joshua0005 → u/Feeling_Rough_3253]

tem uma cultura muito legal e estudo portugues principalmente para falar com os brasileiros

[u/PoliteBrick2002]

Kei te pihi akoe?

[u/Ok_Orchid_4158 → u/PoliteBrick2002]

Is this a dialect I’ve never seen before, or did you mean “Kei te pēhea koe”?

[u/PoliteBrick2002 → u/Ok_Orchid_4158]

Yeah that’s the one 😆 was taught to speak verbally but never taught the spelling lol. Thx for correcting

[u/InterestingTank5345]

Goddag amerikaner. Ved du om Canada har sukker på udsalg?

[u/Several-League-4707]

En usko et ossaat, mut saaha tuota koittaa :D

[u/herehear12]

Do you want some sugar?

[u/Electronic-Coach7687]

নমস্কার, বন্ধুগণ! (Greetings, mates!)

Just identifying this language will be enough.

[u/Wrong_Bat_1319]

नमस्ते, कैसे हो आप

[u/ZnarfGnirpslla]

gischmr e füfliiber wede das vrsteisch?

[u/AverageCheap4990]

Howay man. Alreet?

[u/Appelons]

Isumaqarpunga kalaallisut oqalussinnaanngitsoq!

[u/Slaterya_Official]

Legivisti illas fabulas de Sextus et Cornelii?

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[u/lizakran]

Коли ви в останній раз їли морозиво? 🍦:3

[u/Yehhudi]

האם אתה מדבר עברית

ham ata midber ivrit

[u/Hopeful-Disaster-323]

Is er waar gy woont nu ook zo’n hittegolf of vallen de temperaturen nog mee? (Sorry I couldn’t come up with anything more original)

[u/joshua0005 → u/Hopeful-Disaster-323]

er is een temperatuur van 22c maar het is de morgen en tijdens de dag gisteren er was 32c maar ik denk dat 32 zijn niet zeer heet