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What language do you wish you could speak (and/or read)? (lemmy.sdf.org)
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I wish I could speak Finnish. But, actually, there are tons of languages I wish I could speak. All of them, really, but Finnish is the first one I thought of just now.

I'm in the US and English is my my primary language. I studied Russian but have forgotten a lot of it. I know a few words of German and French, but very few.

Edited to add: Please tell me what your primary language is. It would also be interesting to know what other languages you speak, if any, and where you currently live.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I used to be quite conversationally fluent in Japanese and Portuguese. Now it's difficult for me to remember either. When I hear it, I can understand a lot, but not like before. I would love to be able to speak those again. I speak English, French, and Hungarian now, but I wish my French was better... When you don't use it, you lose it...