
Doesn't sound natural to me...Should be: Do you know English? Only context where this would make sense (to me) would be in a sarcastic/surprised tone: "You know English!...Really?".
Source: Native Australian speaker

Yes, it's meant as an expression of surprise. "You know English? I thought you could only speak Japanese."

I don't know about Italian, but the French ones are rather polite and so, so if someone else confirm that this sentence is natural only when being sarcastic, then they should be unlinked.

Ma traduction serait: "Tu parles anglais?"

oui, ou « Tu connais l'anglais ? »

Hmm...Actually in retrospect the sentence still seems a little rough, even as an expression of surprise. It makes grammatical sense but does not sound natural, in my opinion. But maybe this is just the way people speak, in my area. To me "You understand English? I thought you only spoke Japanese."
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