22 skills.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Arabic — a right-to-left abjad script that normally omits short vowels, root-and-pattern morphology, and a major gap between Modern Standard Arabic and regional spoken dialects; official across the Middle East and North Africa with hundreds of millions of speakers.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Cymraeg (Welsh) — a Celtic language with initial consonant mutations, digraphs treated as single alphabet letters, and grammatical gender — spoken mainly in Wales with official status alongside English.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Dutch — the common/neuter gender system, verb-second word order in main clauses, the u/jij formal-informal distinction, and real vocabulary differences between Netherlandic and Flemish Dutch, official in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in French — grammatical gender agreement, the vous/tu formal-informal and plural distinction, and liaison/elision conventions, official across France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and many African countries.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Gaeilge (Irish) — a Celtic language with initial mutations (lenition and eclipsis), the síneadh fada marking long vowels, and verb-subject-object word order — an official language of Ireland and of the EU, with a minority of first-language speakers.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) — a Celtic language with lenition-style initial mutations, the grave accent marking long vowels, verb-subject-object word order, and a vocative case — spoken mainly in the Scottish Highlands and Islands with official recognition in Scotland.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in German (Deutsch) — a Germanic language with a four-case noun system, grammatical gender that must be memorized per noun, and long compound nouns — official in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with real regional variation.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Hindi — a Devanagari-script abugida with grammatical gender, postpositions instead of prepositions, and a three-tier second-person formality system; one of India's official languages at the union level, spoken natively by several hundred million people.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) — a Latin-script, phonetically regular language with no grammatical gender or tense inflection, reduplication for plurality, and productive prefix/suffix affixation; the official language of Indonesia, spoken by over 200 million people as a first or second language.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Italian — grammatical gender agreement, the tu/Lei formal-informal distinction (where Lei takes third-person verb forms), and a largely phonetic spelling system, official in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, and Vatican City.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Japanese (日本語) — the mixed kanji/hiragana/katakana writing system, the grammatically-encoded keigo honorific system, and subject-object-verb order with frequent subject omission — spoken mainly in Japan.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Korean (한국어) — the deliberately-designed Hangul alphabet, the honorific system (jondaetmal vs. banmal) encoded in verb endings, and South/North Korean vocabulary divergence — official in South Korea and North Korea.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Mandarin Chinese (普通话/國語) — Simplified vs. Traditional character choice, tone, and measure words (classifiers) instead of English-style plurals — the most widely spoken Chinese variety, official in mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Polish — the seven-case noun declension system, masculine-personal vs. non-masculine-personal gender agreement in the plural, diacritical letters (ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż), and Pan/Pani third-person formal address, the official language of Poland.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Portuguese — grammatical gender agreement, the significant European-vs-Brazilian split in spelling/vocabulary/grammar, regionally variable formal-informal address (você, tu), and nasal vowels marked with a tilde, official in Portugal, Brazil, and several African and Asian countries.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Russian — a Cyrillic-script East Slavic language with a six-case noun system and grammatical verb aspect (perfective/imperfective); official in Russia and widely used across the former Soviet Union, spoken natively by well over 100 million people.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Scots — a Germanic language distinct from Scottish Gaelic, closely related to English but with its own core vocabulary, grammar, and multiple coexisting spelling conventions rather than one standard orthography — spoken in Lowland Scotland and, as Ulster Scots, in parts of Northern Ireland.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Spanish — grammatical gender agreement, the tú/usted/vos formal-informal split, and inverted ¿¡ punctuation, spoken by roughly 500 million people as an official language across Spain and most of Latin America.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Swedish (svenska) — a North Germanic language with a two-gender noun system, a definite article suffixed onto the noun, and pitch accent — official in Sweden and Finland, closely related to and largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Thai (ภาษาไทย) — the abugida script written without spaces between words, five meaning-changing tones marked partly by tone rules rather than only tone marks, and a hierarchical pronoun/politeness-particle system that differs by speaker gender — official in Thailand.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Turkish — a Latin-script agglutinative language with vowel harmony, a dotted/dotless I distinction that breaks naive text processing, and a formal/informal second person (siz/sen) split; official in Turkey and Cyprus, spoken natively by roughly 80 million people.
Use when asked to write, translate into, or check text in Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) — the heavily diacritic-marked Latin alphabet (Quốc Ngữ) with six meaning-changing tones, and a kinship-based pronoun system that encodes relative age and familiarity — official in Vietnam, with Northern, Central, and Southern regional variation.