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What languages do you speak? (lemmus.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by VanHalbgott@lemmus.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Alternatively, in the languages I speak:

Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie? (Deutsch/German)

¿Qué idiomas habla usted? (Español/Spanish)

Quelle langue parlez-vous? (Français/French)

EDIT: These sentences are now up to date.

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unsurprising. I'm still well in the stage where I'm formulating thoughts in English, then translating into Swedish. Very occasionally something pops out spontaneously, fully-formed, and in Swedish.

I'm mostly thrilled to have got "i" right there, because I haven't quite memorized i/på with time expressions. It will come.

How well does your formulation convey the nuance that I've been learning (off and on, often passively), but often not actively studying? The verbs "att studera"/"att plugga" feel more to me like actively working, but of course, my feelings in this regard are more about English "study" than those Swedish words.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The suggestion I made tells others that you have actively studied the subject.

If you want to say that you have studied actively, but sporadically, you would say something like:

"Jag har väl studerat Svenska lite till och från under typ 10 år nu"

That is a causal way of saying it.

If you have only passively learned the subject, I would phrase it like this:

"De senaste 10 åren har jag hört och läst mycket Svenska, och har då lärt mig en del."

This puts focus on how you were exposed to a subject and what you learned from it

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

"till och från" is a new one for me, so thank you. I would have used "här och där".

The last formulation makes perfect sense to me. I like to think I could even have written it.

Tusentack för att du tog tid för att förklara lite.