I have always wanted to know if you are fluient in more than one lang. which lang. do you think in? Or talk to yourself in? Your native lang.?
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I'm bilingual in that I can read and write in Spanish fluently. (I speak English natively.) Unfortunately, I can't speak Spanish very well because the way my mind works (translating back and forth) and Spanish is spoken so rapidly. I keep having to tell native speakers, "mas despacio, por favor" when they're talking to me. However, I can read a newspaper written in Spanish from cover to cover and understand every article, without having to resort to a dictionary more than a couple of times. So I don't know if that counts or not.
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I am bilingual...
I speak, write, and read Spanish, and English. and several dialects of each !!!! Whenever I speak, I think in the language I'm speaking.. but, ANY time I'm working with numbers, I think in Spanish.... The Latin base lets me understand French and Italian with very little trouble. I tend to sing along with Andre Bocceli and Eros Ramazotti... ------------------ http://publish.hometown.aol.com/tobb...s/rudedawg.jpg The RudeDawg Known in these Forgotten Realms as Perin LightEyes |
I am sort of bilingual. I can speak Spanish but since I don't speak it very often, I have lost it. It saddens me because I am Mexican and I can hardly speak my own language. I can read it just fine and understand everything I read. I can understand when someone speaks it. I can't write it or speak it very well. I guess it is time for me to relearn.
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I'm officially bilingual. My father's Spanish-Filipino and my mother is Chinese-Filipino. I speak English and Tagalog fluently. I understand very limited Spanish and French.
Melusine and Rikard are quite amazing. They're trilingual I believe. ------------------ http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/memnoch/genwalk.gif http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/memnoch/memname.GIF |
I can speak Dutch, English and quit some German.
I used to speak a little french but since i never used the language i forgot most of it. |
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I am fluent in English, Dutch and German. I have a Dutch mother, a German father (who btw has lived in Holland for almost 30 years and speaks Dutch better than most Dutchmen http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif) and I study English. I also know some French, can read it fairly well and my accent's supposed to be good, but it's a bit too fast to really understand http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif. At the university I also learned Old and Middle English. ------------------ Melusine, Archbabe of the OHF and the LH http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/memnoch/mel1.gif Your voice is ambrosia |
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A lot of Dutch people are trilingual, since Holland is only a small country and no one speaks Dutch were forced to learn other languages. |
Just dropping in this line, but I believe the correct terms for someone who speaks many languages is a "POLYGLOT". POLY meaning many e.g. Polystyrene, GLOT meaning throat (I think) e.g. Epiglotis
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Fluent English, fluent drunken slur and fluent old bollocks.
BTW, I'm in Amsterdam in a couple of weeks time, chances are I'll be speaking all three at once in a bar there somewhere. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif ------------------ One love, peace. |
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