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| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6341 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes  1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 65 of 125 11 May 2008 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Many people in Hong Kong speak Cantonese, Mandarin and English flawlessly. If you include Filipinos/Thai/Pakistani second generation immigrants that speak their language at home, that's 4+ languages.
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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6039 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 66 of 125 15 May 2008 at 10:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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My personal polyglot ideal is based on a friend of mine. Icluding her native language she currently speaks four languages which are Russian (Native), English, Spanish and French. She thinks in both Russian and English and is very fluent in Spanish and French. Last time I spoke to her she was thinking of taking on Italian.
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| showtime17 Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Slovakia gainweightjournal.co Joined 6083 days ago 154 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Russian, English*, Czech*, Slovak*, French, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch | Message 67 of 125 15 May 2008 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
Interesting how polyglot ideals differ according to experiences. For me, that type of a profile, while still a polyglot, would not be sufficient, because I know too many people who fit that criteria and me personally I want to learn more. I actually see speaking that many languages as "average", but that is because I know too many people who speak like 3, 4 or 5 languages fluently. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6039 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 68 of 125 15 May 2008 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
The majority of people I know can only speak English there are very few people I know who can speak basic Welsh nevermind any other languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6116 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic | Message 69 of 125 19 May 2008 at 2:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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The polyglot ideal for me would be to be at an advanced level of fluency in at least one language from each major family of languages. Moreover one would have to know the languages with the most speakers, such as Chinese Mandarin, Spanish, English, French and so on. In my eyes I'd only be succesful when I'd be at the same level in all of them, that is to be flexible in all of them. Currently I'm learning Dutch, and I'd love to be at the same level in this one as in my Norwegian and English.
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| El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6268 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German | Message 70 of 125 19 May 2008 at 11:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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I know some indigenous people in my country that speaks fluently four or five languages, I can consider them as Polyglotes even though they can't write or read them (Oral traditional languages)
I prefere to speak six languages in 80% proficency that three languages in 99%. I think my standars are less rigurous than the yours 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 71 of 125 21 May 2008 at 9:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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My ideal polyglot would be someone who can speak at least 4 languages including his/her native language. The level of competency in the foreign languages would be B2 as a minimum. Lastly, the consideration of being a polyglot would apply to someone who speaks different languages (in a communicative sense - NOT a symbolic or sociolinguistic sense) E.g. I could never claim "polyglottery" from English, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish or English, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian. Instances such as Hindi and Urdu, Farsi and Dari, Malay and Indonesian or Azeri and Turkish could also be quite fuzzy and difficult to place.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 72 of 125 21 May 2008 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
Me too.
Not necessarily, just different. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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