What languages do you speak?

Last month I came across a Croatian speaking Somali which was pretty strange and unexpected. Now I'm curious to see if any of you speak an odd language or live somewhere unusual.

For myself, I speak Dutch, English and I'm now approaching conversational Spanish. I spoke French when I was younger, but stopped speaking it altogether when my family moved cities.

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Wow, that is impressive. How/why did the person learn Croatian? I myself am Bosniak and speak Bosnian, a language pretty much identical to Croatian (basically another dialect of a common South Slavic language).
 

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Afki Hoyo and English.....was fluent in Swahili, but lost it at a young age, as I learnt English. My missus, tried teaching me Portuguese and Creolo, but I was a terrible learner, so she called it quits.
 

Basra

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Afki Hoyo and English.....was fluent in Swahili, but lost it at a young age, as I learnt English. My missus, tried teaching me Portuguese and Creolo, but I was a terrible learner, so she called it quits.


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Wow, that is impressive. How/why did the person learn Croatian? I myself am Bosniak and speak Bosnian, a language pretty much identical to Croatian (basically another dialect of a common South Slavic language).

He moved there during his childhood from Saudi Arabia with his father, and has lived there since. Which is really surprising. While I don't understand it, I can distinguish the Scandinavian languages, Finnish, German etc. but seeing a Somali speak any sort of Slavic language with comfort messes with my brain.

Are ethnically Bosnian or Somali?
 
He moved there during his childhood from Saudi Arabia with his father, and has lived there since. Which is really surprising. While I don't understand it, I can distinguish the Scandinavian languages, Finnish, German etc. but seeing a Somali speak any sort of Slavic language with comfort messes with my brain.

Are ethnically Bosnian or Somali?

I am Bosniak.

Does he live in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia? They have a funny accent.
 
I am Bosniak.

Does he live in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia? They have a funny accent.

Interesting. Not that I think you shouldn't be here, but how did you end up on Somalispot?

He did tell me where he lived, but I forgot. Definitely not Zagreb, because I would have remembered that. It's one of the only three Croatian cities I can name.
 
Somali Arabic and English. I know a bit of Hindi and Urdu as well. I can sing old school Bollywood songs.

It’s a great ice breaker with the kids especially Asian kids.
 
Somali, English, and French.

Want to learn Amharic and Arabic.

What's the motive behind learning Amharic? Their alphabetic script is beautiful, but I struggle to see a use case for Amharic. Unless you have plans in Ethiopia, of course. Not that one reason is better than another to learn a language. Power to you
 

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2nd Emir of the Akh Right Movement
What's the motive behind learning Amharic? Their alphabetic script is beautiful, but I struggle to see a use case for Amharic. Unless you have plans in Ethiopia, of course. Not that one reason is better than another to learn a language. Power to you
Ahmara is the official language of Ethiopia. Learning it would make me able to communicate with nearly 100 million people. Would be a great asset in the future when I go back to the Horn.
 
Last month I came across a Croatian speaking Somali which was pretty strange and unexpected. Now I'm curious to see if any of you speak an odd language or live somewhere unusual.

For myself, I speak Dutch, English and I'm now approaching conversational Spanish. I spoke French when I was younger, but stopped speaking it altogether when my family moved cities.

Eindelijk iemand die Nederlands spreekt
 

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