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In how many languages do you read?

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Vashishtha

3

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Rawan

3 ( Kurdish – Arabic – English )

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Belén

1 1/2. English and Pennsylvania Dutch (I read Amish fiction sometimes)

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Mathilda

My Love For Amish Stories Is Growing, Written In English Though.

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Deborah

Out of curiosity what is Pennsylvania dutch? Could you write an example sentence?

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Belén

It’s basically German, because the Amish are (I think) immigrants from Germany in the 1700s.

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Deborah

Ah ok.

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Deborah

Thanks

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Belén

Yep

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Jenn

Love Amish Fiction 🙂

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Jenn

@Deborah – a couple of examples Daed is Dad, Mamm is Mom

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Deborah

Thanks! I was wondering if it had any similarities with dutch, that’s why I was asking

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Aliexy

3

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Connie

3 English – Finnish – German

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Margal

1.5. English and a bit of French.

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Likesh

2.

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Msabraham

4

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Deborah

2. My native dutch and English. I want to learn more languages though

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Disa

4 1/2 Swedish, English, Spanish, French and some Chinese.

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Fabiana

3 English, Spanish And French

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Ivan

English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and I’m intermediate in Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese and German. Can’t wait to read ancient Chinese philosophers.

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Krista

2…. English and Spanish

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LaVonne

All of you put me to shame- just one- English.

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Angel

Me too ?

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Robin

English and a tiny bit of Hebrew, French, Italian and some Spanish.

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Lorena

Spanish, English and German. Had to read books in Afrikaans and French in highschool, but don’t do that anymore. Well, except “Le Petit Prince”, that one I read in french now and again. Oh and I am learning (trying to) Japanese and hope to be able to read it one day.

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Tiffany

English and a little French.

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Zahira

English, French and Arabic

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Ματη

Greek and english.

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Sasha

English and slowly starting to read German.

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Ann

Norwegian and english. (Swedish and danish too, but they have much similiarities to Norwegian, so not sure if I shall count them in.)

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Disa

Well, I didn’t count Norwegian and Danish though I do sometimes read in them. I think that’s fair though because I can never tell which is which in writing 😉

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Lucy

3. English, Afrikaans and Dutch

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Anna

Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Italian, Spanish and English. But the three first are so similar.

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Charlene

English and German

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Lana

2

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Ana

Spanish, Italian, English and French.

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Donna

One, English. I can read and talk Spanish, well enough to get myself in trouble. ?

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Spyridoula

English and Greek

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Cristina

English and German.

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Stan

Deutsch,English and Spanish

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Mané

2. English and portuguese.

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Ilda

My native language, Albanian, English, Italian and slowly German. So its almost 4 ?

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Ahmedi

Arabic, French, English & Korean

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Rosa

English and Spanish…later on in Japanese ???

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Silvia

4: romanian, english, french & turkish

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Yamileth

English and Spanish

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Gemma

Just one english

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Ivan

3

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Germaine

Just two, English and Spanish. I studied French in school but didn’t keep up and I’ve forgotten it.

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Yasmin

English and Arabic

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Amanda

English and a few words in French

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Holly

I can read and speak in English, read and speak some French, Greek, Spanish and Tokelauan❤️

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Rupali

3

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Sanne

I can read in both Dutch and English. But I dislike the translated books (Dutch) so I stick to English books

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Dua

English, Urdu, Punjabi….

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Maha

Two, English and Arabic.

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Ronald

2 very well.

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Ingrid

My mother tongue- Croatian, English and Italian for simpler books ? My goal in life is to learn at least 2 more, though.

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Elisabeth

Two, English and German

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Chrissie

I’n Afrikaans but only read English

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Christie

2 spanish and english but i prefer english books

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Regina

2

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Frédérique

French and English. I’m learning Japanese.

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Tina

2 English and Dine

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Shubhu

Three.

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Rianne

Dutch, English and German.

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Shirley

English ,Spanish and a bit of French !

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Caterina

English, Spanish, and Portuguese. I’m looking for more Portuguese literature.

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Amanda

I can read French as it’s my first language but I almost never do cause it takes me too long. I prefer English, which is all I usually read.

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Raluca

English, italian and of course romanian?

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Seraina

At the moment in three. German, English and French

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Adrienne

My first language French but I learned English very young.

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Virginia

¡Leí en Español e Inglés!

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Alex

Three, but I MUCH prefer sticking to English.

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Mikael

I read in Finish, swedish (which is also my mother-tongue ) english and german.

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Jean

English and French. Spanish is a struggle

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Katia

Two

Arabic and English

i know French but i’ve never tried to read French books

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Silvia

3. Romanian, english and spanish.

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Nataša

5 but my French is a bit shaky and my German could use some improvement.

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Jenn

Like Baylin, almost 2 – English and Pennsylvania Dutch (amish)

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Mary

One

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Tamara

I can read in 5, but usually stick to English or French.

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Giulia

At the moment just in Italian, but I want to start reading in English and later in French and German. I would learn Russian, too. But I prefer to learn well all these languages talking with mother-tongue people 😀

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Jessica

I read in only English but I kinda want to learn to read in Italian. There is this middle grade series, Ulysses Moore, that is written by an Italian author. The first 4 books of the series were published in English in the US but the other 9 were never translated! I want to know where the adventure leads to next!

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Lori

Just English and a very little bit of French

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Andrea

Unfortunately just one x

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Jamie

English, Spanish and some French. I’m planning to add Italian in the next few years. Once you’ve mastered one second language, it’s hard to stop!

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Sandrine

French, English and Italian.

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Tori

3

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Mojgan

3: Persian/Farsi, English and French.

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Hoogeveen

2

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Sarah

Arabic and English

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David

English barely. ?

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Ciera

I’m so jealous of the people who can speak more than one language!! I can only speak English sadly 🙁

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Argel

just 2

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Shaerry

Just English !!!

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Missy

Currently German, English and French. In the past I also read books in Italian and Spanish but I guess I forgot most of it so it would be really hard in those languages, Newspapers are ok, but I don’t think I could manage whole books at the moment.

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Anita

2. English, Afrikaans.

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Melanie

3

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Samina

2. Bangla and English

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Nathaniel

Three

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Ula

only 2, English and Polish….wish I will be able to read in Italian one day

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Nisaar

English, hindi and Gurjati

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Jemima

I read in English only but can speak 3 year old child. I have known to be able to translate toddler as well ????

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Cindy

Now if you could only learn teenager… But you gotta BE one to understand them.

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Jemima

????

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Alida

I am Afrikaans but reading English books

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Stephanie

4. English, French, Dutch and German

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Rebeka

In Hungarian and in English

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Roberta

English and Spanish

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Peggyta

3.5

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Ali

Just two

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Nancy

English, Spanish and I can read french more than speaking ??‍?

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Amanda

I only read in two out of my four languages and not surprisingly they’re the ones I’m better at.

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Lucia

Two. Indonesian and English ?

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Dana

English, German, Spanish

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Anna

Arabic French and English

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Kahina

Arabic and English and lately I am trying to read in German ?

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Mathilde

2, French (my native language) and English.

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Sophie

English, Finnish, German, French…so 4…and there’s a book in Icelandic waiting to be read ?

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Ann

Two..english, and sign lang.

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Seraina

Are there really books in sign language ??

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Saima

4 – English , Urdu/Hindi, Persian, Arabic

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Louise

I am a pitiful Brit …. So only English (the shame)!

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Kayla

Just one.

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Siri

Just English ??

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Khouloud

English and Arabic ☺☺

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Rao

Well…forget me for saying this but I just couldn’t stop myself from saying it. You are beautiful.?

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Julie

just English, a bit of Spanish, and sign language, which you don’t read sign language.

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David

Might be fun to do a video of a story told in sign language.

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Julie

Thought about doing my poetry in sign language.

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Rao

English, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chines, Punjabi, Urdu, German, Japanese, Protagoras and also funny language ????

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David

Holy $#^}

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Henna

Wow!!!

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Rao

Actually I was kidding. Looks like people took it serious .?

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David

@Rao ? oK, we are hiring someone to break into your house and cut random pages out of each and every one of your books.
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?

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Rao

Haha…that I was kidding about the language thing but I’m a crime fiction writer and I have some real awesome gun collection. My bother has snipes, shotgun, Uzi pistol and many other guns. He was a cop once. ???.

You are most welcome to my house now @David ?????

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David

@Rao Would Love to come over and look through your gun collection.
Which of your books should I read?
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I DEMAND you have a TERRIFIC day, week, month, year, decade, … Afterlife?

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Rao

Haha…most welcome @David … Just don’t touch my books. They mean the world to me other than that…you may have any gun you like as a gift from me ???.

I’ll send you one of my detective novel ?

Haha…thanks man ??

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David

@Rao Thank YOU very much. I look forward to reading some of your work.
Please have a GREAT day.

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Lizvette

Spanish and English

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Omar

2

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Jennifer

English

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