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| View Poll Results: How many languages are you basically fluent in? | |||
| 1 |    | 22 | 31.88% |
| 2 |    | 31 | 44.93% |
| 3 |    | 12 | 17.39% |
| 4 |    | 2 | 2.90% |
| 5 |    | 1 | 1.45% |
| 6-10 |    | 1 | 1.45% |
| 11-20 | | 0 | 0% |
| More than 20 | | 0 | 0% |
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03-11-2008, 10:25 PM
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 How many languages are you basically fluent in? Please note: I'm posting this in the Personal Effectiveness forum deliberately. I believe your knowledge of languages influences, and is influenced in turn by, your own personal effectiveness in learning new things. The poll is not asking about progamming languages--so people who speak Lisp don't count.  People who speak with a lisp do count, though.I'm talking about the standard overarcing language--not various dialects, unless they are so extreme they are not mutually intelligible. So American Engish and Canadian Engish would count as one language "English". (We all know that we Canadians have much better accents, though.) Feel free to include fictional languages like Quenya from Lord of the Rings and Klingon from Star Trek. Myself, I'm only basically fluent in English. I'm working on studying my family's second language--Japanese (日本語). 日本語がすきです。  Last edited by Tasaio : 03-11-2008 at 10:30 PM. Reason: Why I'm posting this poll here      |
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03-12-2008, 01:57 AM
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| Just one! I have tried German and Spanish but learning different languages is too difficult for me!
__________________ We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~Carl Jung |
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03-12-2008, 02:18 AM
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| Croatian as native language, Enlish is ok but not as good as Italian, by fluency i mean how good it sounds but with few months in one of commonwealth nations i will probably be not recognized as descending from Slavic region. |
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03-12-2008, 06:42 AM
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| fluent in Spanish, learning Portuguese what i found funny was that in my first Spanish lesson there were 20 people in the class, second 18, third, 16, the tenth lesson there were 5 people in the class. Its like people realise that it takes more than a month to learn a language and give up because of the quick fix pill popping culture we've grown up in. I found learning Spanish was very hard and put in ALOT of work to become fluent (and its one of hte easiest languages in the world, i cant imagine learning Chinese :/ ) a years worth of lessons in australia and a year spent in south america got me fluent. Im picking up Portuguese really quickly now because learning a second language is always easier than the first 
__________________ “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. - T.S. Elliot |
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03-12-2008, 06:50 AM
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| I would be deluding myself if i said that i'm fluent in 4 languages although i was very compelled to mark that option I'm actually fluent in portuguese (native language), english and spanish. I also virtually understand everything people speak in german but i can't speak it very well (i knew german and portuguese fluently by the time i was 5 but stopped speaking german -i beat myself because of it, too bad i forgot a good deal of it, it's a demonic language to learn from scratch-) But i plan on learning german for once and for all and also learning chinese, although i guess chinese is even worse than german.
__________________ All that matters is results. Turbo mode now! Full schedule. Bye bye. |
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03-12-2008, 08:18 AM
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| Hindi as my native language and English. |
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03-12-2008, 11:14 PM
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| Does American Sign Language count? I'm kinda bummed I can't count Lisp as a language. XSLT?
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03-13-2008, 12:16 AM
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| Just one: English. I thank God every day that other cultures are willing to learn it because it's the wackiest language and so difficult to learn. Hopefully soon it will be universal. Jennifer |
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03-13-2008, 03:48 AM
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English a difficult language to learn??? It's the easiest of all languages i've seen so far! Try learning german, russian, chinese, portuguese, and you'll see what's a wacky language
__________________ All that matters is results. Turbo mode now! Full schedule. Bye bye. |
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03-13-2008, 04:49 AM
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03-13-2008, 07:00 AM
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| I've also heard from several non-native speakers that English is one of the most difficult language to learn. Many nuances, nothing is pronounced as it looks, idioms galore ...
__________________ I love to grow. |
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03-13-2008, 07:27 PM
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| Fluent in English, fluent in German My dad is from German so I was lucky to learn the language, although I don't have the opportunity of using it much any more since I moved to London a couple years ago... Would have loved to be able to speak French though... Hum come to think about it, I'll check and see if there are any lessons in the local language center |
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03-15-2008, 04:31 AM
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| Native dutch speaker, fluent in English. I must say English is a terribly hard language to learn... you think you have a pattern down and then there end up being a dozen 'exceptions'. Also nothing looks like what it sounds like... very hard to get used to. I'm learning Spanish right now, and dabbling in Esperanto and Swahili. My main focus is Spanish though, as there is a large amount of Spanish speakers in this area. I think Russian is another language I want to focus on because there is a large amount of Russians around here as well.
__________________ "Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them." [Unknown] |
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03-15-2008, 05:44 AM
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| lol based on people's opinios i must be an exception then. I found english to be the easiest language i had to learn. But the again, it may have been because i've read so much interesting stuff in english and spent so much time reading and hearing it that i learned a lot without even noticing...
__________________ All that matters is results. Turbo mode now! Full schedule. Bye bye. |
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03-16-2008, 06:38 PM
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| Fluent in English and Dutch, and I can manage with my German and French, barely though. |
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03-17-2008, 06:15 PM
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| I'd say about 1.2 languages I'm fluent in English, and I have some knowledge of Russian. |