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In what languages have you already read a book (including petit prince )?
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English, French, German, Italian, Duch
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Russian, English, French, German, Polish
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>>24685390
English, Swedish, German, Spanish, Latin
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Only in English
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>>24685416
pleb.
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>>24685390
English
German
Japanese (but only a picture book for children lol)
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>>24685390
french turkish russian english italian(short stories since im new to italian)
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>>24685390
german, english, dutch, portuguese
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>>24685572
In Italian I've read "Dov'è Yukio?".
It is something you can read without actually knowing Italian.
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>>24685561
glurp₹
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>>24685561
If you say so? I am the one making seven figures a year with my English, and not the one(s) LARPing about my funko pop collection of barbarian tongues I can barely read Harry Potter in with the help of a dictionary.
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Yiddish, Russian, German
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>>24685390
Like, a whole book from cover to cover? I'm assuming those read digitally count at least, in which case, English, Spanish, Esperanto... huh, that might be it. I'm not sure if I've ever actually read a book in Japanese from cover to cover.
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>>24685390
My native language, English, Japanese, Chinese, Latin(assuming LLPSI counts)
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>>24685390
My native tongue (Portuguese) and English. I prefer reading in English because English feels like a faster language for some reason. I read faster when I'm reading in English.
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English and Japanese. Japanese one was definitely more of a YA novel but it also wasn't a children's book.
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Italian, Portuguese and Spanish (which are basically the same thing), English, French and German.
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English
Spanish (but only one)
Chinese
Classical Chinese
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>>24686663
Ooh, nice, fellow CC learner!
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english, latin, dutch, japanese
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>>24685390
English and Italian. Italian having an entire tense (passato remoto) that's basically only used in novels is rather annoying.
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Portuguese (native), english, castillian, old spanish, gallician, french, old norse, latin, galaico-portuguese
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>>24685390
I've read in English, Spanish, French.
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>>24685390
english, french, and latin. in the future im going to learn greek, german, and japanese, ill call it quits after that.
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>>24685390
I don't read
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English
French
Old Icelandic
Japanese
I want to learn Classical Chinese next
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>>24685773
Based post
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>>24685398
what is worth reading in dutch?
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>>24686627
>I read faster when I'm reading in English.
same here. English has next to no grammar. It reads as easily as children's literature does in other languages.
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German.
Waj wudd juh wont tu ried bucks in lenwitsches sätt Untermenschen ßpiek -- like Polish or French or sätt bastärd of ä lengwitsch sätt is Inglisch?
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>>24687234
>English has next to no grammar.
Problem sentence this read grammar English no if had could with no you.
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Cantonese, Mandarin, English
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>>24685416
English speaking master race
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>>24687168
Ontdekking van de hemel. Gouden ei. That's it
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In levels of language mastery:
Dutch
German
English/Japanese
Latin
Spanish

It's insane how big of a difference there is in the same works in different languages. The entire feeling and sometimes overal message gets lost in translation. Especially eggresious in Japanese and Dutch weirdly enough. Not so much in Latin or Spanish.

Currently studying Russian (wife is Russian) but the grammar is filtering me, hardest language I had to learn so far really looking forwards to reading Russian literature in Russian though. I suspect it's one of those languages that feel completely different when reading works in it.
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>>24690381
The only confusing part about Russian grammar (as compared to Latin) is the verb aspect imho.
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>>24690410
There is also a lot of exceptions and irregularity in grammar rules, some of it is poorly documented as well so you need a native to correct you.
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>>24690442
Try getting native aid in Latin
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>>24690332
who writes books in cantonese?
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>>24685390
Spanish
English
Italian
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Ancient Greek, English, German, Italian, Latin
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>>24685390
Greek- Sappho’s fragments and Heraclitus’ aphorisms though I did it phonetically
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English
Spanish
French (can read contemporary genre-ish stuff but not Rabelais, Flaubert, Proust and the like)
Latin (went through Orberg's 'Familia romana')
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English, italian, spanish, esperanto and interlingua
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>>24692610
Saluton! Feliĉe estas trovi samideanon tie ĉi!
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>>24690652
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Cantonese
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German, English and French

Feel like a retard with only three languages
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Es scheint das Deutsche ist die beliebteste Sprache hier.



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