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CEFR grade of fictional characters
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leroc
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Message 25 of 28

03 May 2013 at 1:22am | IP Logged

clumsy wrote:

The Borat actually speaks Polish.

He says jak się masz and dziekuje a few times but I had the impression that it was a Polish/Hebrew/Vaguely Slavic sounds that he was speaking, at least in the original English version.
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Darklight1216
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Message 26 of 28

03 May 2013 at 1:53am | IP Logged

Kvothe from the Kingkiller Chronicles:

Quote:

Chronicler asked, “Did you really learn Tenia in a day?”
Kvothe gave a faint smile and looked down at the table. “That’s an old story I’d almost
forgotten. It took a day and a half, actually. A day and a half with no sleep. Why do you
ask?”
“I heard about it at the University. I never really believed it.” He looked down at the page
of his cipher in Kvothe’s neat handwriting. “All of it?”
Kvothe looked puzzled. “What?”
“Did you learn the whole language?”
“No. Of course not,” Kvothe said rather testily. “Only a portion of it. A large portion to be
sure, but I don’t believe you can ever learn all of anything, let alone a language.”

I believe that he also learned Adem (which uses hand signals to express emotion rather than
facial expressions) when he stayed in an Isolated village. In addition he also uses his
native language. I dont remember if the author gave it a name or not.

Man, I cant wait until the final book is published.

Edited by Darklight1216 on 03 May 2013 at 2:06am
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aspie.sharaf
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Message 27 of 28

05 May 2013 at 9:23pm | IP Logged

The Engineer´s language in Prometheus:

David: High B1/low B2
The Engineer: C2
Everybody else: -A0
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dampingwire
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Message 28 of 28

05 May 2013 at 9:58pm | IP Logged

montmorency wrote:

DaraghM wrote:

Manuel (Fawlty Towers): English (B1) - Played by a native English speaker.

Not quite, eigentlich :-) (But effectively a native level speaker, so maybe I'm
splitting hairs).

Really, if "native" now means "indistinguishable from the bulk of other monoglot
speakers, other than possessing better diction than most, but Wikipedia shows he's not
truly native" I'm going to change two of those languages on my profile from
"native" to "spoken since shortly after birth" so I can't be accused of dishonesty! :-)

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