What languages can you speak, even just a little?

A natural way to answer

I speak Vietnamese as my mother tongue, and English fairly well. I also studied some French years ago, though I can only remember a few basic phrases now.

Key phrases to use

• get by in — to manage to communicate in a language at a basic, functional level“I can get by in Spanish when I'm on holiday, but I couldn't hold a deep conversation.”
• forget most of it — to have lost nearly all of what you once learned“I took piano lessons for years but I've forgotten most of it.”