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- Dutch from birth

- English from around 10 years, needing about 7 years or more to get to speak it comfortably

- French and German from around 12 years, never liked it really and couldn't speak comfortably yet, only the last 3 years speaking it with more confidence

- Esperanto since about 15 years, got fluent in less than a year and conversational level in a month

- Ido and toki pona in free time online that follows, mostly in mailing list conversations, probably don't really count as they are conlangs

- Spanish and Portuguese since my 20th, both basic conversational level in about a month, my spanish is still conversational but my portuguese is quite reasonable, to the point where non-brazilians accuse me of a brazilian-like accent.




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