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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 1 of 89 22 November 2011 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Such a simple question, but I went back till where I had stopped reading the forum and I can't find anything like this. So:
1. Do you consider yourself a polyglot? 2. Are you planning to become one? 3. If you are, what are you planning to achieve before you can call yourself a polyglot? Let's try not to discuss whose criteria are better and let's keep this in terms of this forum or CEFR if possible. As for myself, I still don't think I'm a polyglot. To consider myself to be one, I feel I need to reach basic fluency (B1 actively+being nearly error-free, B2/C1 passively) in two more languages, preferably German and a Romance one (or at least not two Romance languages). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6585 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2 of 89 22 November 2011 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Yeah, sure
2. Doesn't apply 3. Doesn't apply 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4862 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 3 of 89 22 November 2011 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Not yet.
2. Definitely YES. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 89 22 November 2011 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Yes, I consider myself a polyglot.
2. ( ) But I have never planned to become one in my youth. I just learned one language, then the next, then the next... When I was older than 30, I decided to study Romance Philology and at that time I systematically studied several languages with the idea to keep them active in later life. 3. ( ) So I can answer this question very shortly! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 23 November 2011 at 8:24am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 89 22 November 2011 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Yes I do. I see that some feel that you should speak languages that span several different language families to consider yourself a "real polyglot", but as long as I speak several languages I do consider myself a ployglot.
2. Does not apply. 3. Does not apply. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6154 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 6 of 89 22 November 2011 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. No.
2. Eventually, I hope to become somebody with basic fluency in at least 5 languages, and a working knowledge of at least 15 others. 3. My aims are as follows, Basic Fluency: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Irish, maybe also Hungarian. Working Knowledge: Italian, Thai, Indonesian, Portuguese, Danish, Polish, Latvian, Greek, Estonian, Swedish, Czech, German, Japanese, Mandarin or Cantonese, Arabic, Hebrew. (This second list is likely to change) Where I'm currently at, Native Fluency: English Basic Fluency: Spanish Nearly Basic Fluency: French, Irish (mainly due to 6 years and 14 years schooling) Beginner\Intermediate: Russian Beginner (in order of strength): Portuguese, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Danish, Indonesian, Thai, Latvian, Estonian, Greek, Czech. Yet to Try: German, Swedish, Japanese, Mandarin 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5265 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 7 of 89 22 November 2011 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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To answer the OP's questions:
1) No 2) Probably not 3) N/A The word "polyglot" simply means "many tongues" or "many languages". The number of languages one must speak is not specified neither is the level of proficiency specified, except by the OP. How many is "many"- more than two, more than three, more than seven? Must those languages have little relation to each other? Is the name one is called that important? Who decides the cut-off level to reach polyglot status? What does one receive upon achieving that status? What's in that name, bragging rights, ego? I think the OP has answered his/her own question. As far as I know, there is no "brotherhood" or "guild" of polyglots that sets admission standards. You define yourself and if you are not up to that definition then that fact will soon become apparent when you try to demonstrate those claimed abilities. Barring the lack of a specific set of generally accepted criteria for claiming polyglot status (beyond the ability to speak "many" languages), when you meet your own definition then you will be a "polyglot" as you have defined the term yourself. Edited by iguanamon on 22 November 2011 at 5:04pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 8 of 89 22 November 2011 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
Great replies, thank you everyone:)
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