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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 41 of 89 09 February 2012 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I consider myself a polyglot.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5456 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 42 of 89 09 February 2012 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Do you consider yourself a polyglot?
No. Maybe I qualify, but I don't care. 2. Are you planning to become one? No. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 43 of 89 09 February 2012 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
1. Yes by technicalities since the word just means "many tongues", not how well they're done. Some of them I speak like a baby, but it's still speaking/communicating. I don't necessarily brag about it since I know how modest my abilities actually are. 2. I never planned so much as it's my personality to like to do many things and be interested in them for their own merits. It's the same with music where I sing and play many different instruments. The degree of skill is different, but I still do many. It fits my nature. 3. I just want to learn and study throughout my life to enjoy what I can do and to progress in the ways I can that are enjoyable to me. When I was younger and first online, I had the word polyglot as part of a telnet bbs profile of mine. I got hit on by a man who read that and had misunderstood it for polyamory. He said there was nothing wrong with that kind of lifestyle. I thought he was a horny idiot who clearly didn't understand the word I had actually used. Now, though, I think being a polyglot IS a lifestyle choice. I'm choosing to fill my life with language via books or music or internet. It makes the way I live it different than those who would be happy only in one language. It's no burden, but it is a lifestyle choice of a sort. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5696 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 44 of 89 10 February 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Do you consider yourself a polyglot?
No, I don't. 2. Are you planning to become one? Yes! 3. If you are, what are you planning to achieve before you can call yourself a polyglot? By purely personal standards, I want to be able to speak three more languages (for a total of four foreign languages plus my native tongue) at a C1 level before I will feel comfortable calling myself a polyglot. Of course, by the time I get to that point, my standards may have gone up. We'll see. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4691 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 45 of 89 10 February 2012 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Do you consider yourself a polyglot?
Sure, why not? Who's going to stop me? The closest I've seen to a universal requirement is to be able to speak at least 3 languages. Do I think it's a great achievement to be borderline "fluent" in Yiddish when I already knew German? Or to have very much sub-fluent capability in a large handful of other languages? No, but who cares, it's fun. 2. Are you planning to become one? Yes, according to some, but not all, of the stricter definitions. 3. If you are, what are you planning to achieve before you can call yourself a [more advanced] polyglot? I'm maybe already advanced in German, and eventually I hope/plan to reach advanced (C1+) in at least one non-Germanic language for a total of 3 strong major languages, and/or basic (~B2) in 2 or more languages than where I already claim fluency. If I do that, then maybe I'll raise the bar again, but that'd be a great start. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4994 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 46 of 89 29 March 2012 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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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 [more advanced] polyglot? 1. I do consider myself a polyglot, because I can have conversation at least on B2- level in one language, and on C1- or C2-level in 4 languages. :-) 2. :-) 3. I will soon start learning another language. And I plan to brush up Portuguese and Russian. Good luck to everybody! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Midnight Diglot Groupie Czech Republic Joined 4642 days ago 54 posts - 111 votes Speaks: Czech*, English | Message 47 of 89 31 March 2012 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm gonna learn these. German, Esperanto, Spanish (Carinbean or Mexican or Colombian) , Portuguese (Brazilian), Mandarin, Finnish, Southern, Lule, Northern, Inari, Skolt and Kildin Saami.
But at this point I don't consider myself a polyglot. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6871 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 48 of 89 31 March 2012 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting choices, Midnight. Why those, and where will you find resources? Edited by Journeyer on 31 March 2012 at 5:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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