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| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5471 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 145 of 204 31 December 2010 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | ||
No, that would be advanced fluency or even what they call "near-native". Basic fluency means that you're at ease with the language, that it flows. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Azzurra Triglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 5112 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: Mandarin, Cantonese*, English Studies: French, Italian | Message 146 of 204 01 January 2011 at 12:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm 41.
Cantonese: My mother tongue Mandarin: Second native then got proficiency while i was studying in Taiwan for my BA degree.(I'm not good at Simplified Chinese, can read it but can't write it..not very eager to learn it anyway...) English: In my city, every kids need to learn it since they are babies. But I was not very into it. Until one day,as a grow-up,suddenly I realised that:Oh,it seems that i can explain myself with this language.Cool! I watch BBC everyday for keeping my study vivid and active. French: Studied it for almost 3 years at L'AF, as i was below 30. dropped it then. would like to pick it up later because i still have some good friends around who came from France. Italian: I've been learning it 3 years ago.Be honest, it was because of my ex-BF(an Italian).I felt in love with this language since then. And now, my passion for Italian is beyond romance. will keep learning it. My regrets: Nepali: My parent could speak Nepali (for doing business with the Gurkha during my adolescent).i met Nepalese everyday but i never learned it.Too naive when i was young. What a shame! Other Chinese dialects: My parent have got different mother tongues. they still speak dialects with relatives. Somehow i can guess what the topics they are talking about but i just don't have motivation to learn them. :( Edited by Azzurra on 01 January 2011 at 12:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 147 of 204 01 January 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was very sad today to check my own profile and find out that I'm forty years old now!
It looks like the forum software rounds off a person's age by birth year (just a guess). But now my language log title make no sense! I constructed my language project so that I could say, when that time comes - in ten months! - that I have some knowledge of four foreign languages - 1 per decade, a really slow rate of acquisition it seems, but I've done a great deal of it only in the last two years. I spent too many years without languages and I regret that, so I'm catching up now. So the languages are: Spanish (age 14), German (37), French (38) and this year (39)Italian. UPDATE: Finally figured out how to delete my age from my profile, so no problem now. It's no secret because it's in my language log, but I don't like wrong information in my forum profile. Also had a slip of the finger and deleted half of my original post! Edited by meramarina on 19 January 2011 at 6:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 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 148 of 204 01 January 2011 at 8:22pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, this seems to be the magic age trick of the forum software. It says in my profile that I'm 50 since today on New Year 2011, but my real 50th birthday will be in June 2011. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 01 January 2011 at 8:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lingalang Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5077 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 149 of 204 02 January 2011 at 12:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Im 17 and am currently learning my first language, German. I took a year of German
classes when I was 15, and then worked with Rosseta Stone last summer. Now Im living in Austria for a yearr as an exchange student. Learning another language has been and is really amazing, and the immersion factor makes it considerably better. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ulmo Diglot Newbie Joined 6087 days ago 20 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English | Message 150 of 204 02 January 2011 at 4:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Brazilian Portuguese is my native language, and I recently turned 19.
English - started learning it at school at the age of 6. It's my second best language. French - started learning it on my own about an year ago, but didn't go really serious about it. Due to to cognates between English and Portuguese I can understand a great deal of both written and spoken French, although I can merely pass by speaking. Japanese - started learning about 4 years ago, going in and out several times. Albeit still sounding like a child, I'm conversational in Japanese. Italian - I've studied it for some time. Again, due to similarities, I can understand much more than I actually speak. I guess I could pass by in Italy, though. Esperanto - I've dabbled with it for a little while. I'd say I'm a high beginner. Biblical Hebrew - started it about 6 months ago. It's the only language besides English I've taken classes. I can read simple biblical passages with the aid of a dictionary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| xtwinni Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5076 days ago 4 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: French, Russian, Dutch, Japanese | Message 151 of 204 02 January 2011 at 11:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm 16.
Languages - English: Native speaker. Mandarin Chinese: 100% fluent. I'm an American born Chinese, so I can speak this as well as my mother tongue. French: Semi-fluent. Learned in school for four years. Korean: Been studying for 5 years, though it's no where near my French level... Arabic: Also a new language for this new year. Don't have many languages yet, but I'm slowly and surely building them up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5067 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 152 of 204 15 January 2011 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
I have time for my languages because I don't have a job and all I do is travel. I'm 26. Norwegian - mother tongue, rather fluent but with a northern accent English - around age 8 'till 15, self media induced immersion in the following decade. More fluent in this one than in Norwegian. German - age 13-16. Intermediate, basic fluency, hard to say, pretty "rusty". Spanish - around age 20. A few years. Intermediate or basic fluency. Indonesian - age 25-26. Lower intermediate maybe... Russian - 26-...? Who knows? I am at a beginners level after 3 months in Russia. Am currently trying to learn more every day... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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