I really only read English. Very occasionally I'll read a book in Norwegian, but really I'm close to mono-lingual in terms of reading material. I can read Swedish and Danish of course, but those hardly count as second languages. I could get by in German with minimal effort and having read all the Norse sagas in Old Norse I guess the same is true for Icelandic. A little extra work would probably have me reading Faroese too. In French, Spanish and Italian I can master restaurant menus and of course I can order beer in an inordinate number of languages.
However, just about everything I want to read was originally written in English, so that's what I end up with.
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