Learn English – say “I speak Chinese as well as Spanish”

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I speak Chinese as well as Spanish.

I want to say that my Chinese and Spanish are equally strong. So please help me out with this. I think it's weird to say speak "as well as". I don't know if there are other better expressions.

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I speak Chinese as well as Spanish is "ambiguous", in that it could mean either of...

1: I speak Chinese and also I speak Spanish
2: I speak Chinese as competently as I speak Spanish

Context will normally make it obvious which sense is intended. #1 above is probably more likely, but you can easily force the sense of #2 using something like just as well as, for example.

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