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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 17 of 27 08 May 2011 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I feel like I am taking over the thread now, so Kuikentje, I'll send you a PM, and let the others answer to the OPs original question.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 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 19 of 27 08 May 2011 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
Well done! Otherwise the thread would have gone off-topic. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5336 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 21 of 27 09 May 2011 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry about that guys
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| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5430 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 22 of 27 09 May 2011 at 12:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Kudos to everybody. I like the idea of feeling comfortable in a language rather than talking about that awful (IMHO) idea of fluency. It's a great concept that I've used on various occasions to describe how one feels subjectively when speaking a different language. Unlike proficiency which is a rating on a scale, comfort can apply to any level of proficiency, although one would assume that proficiency and comfort tend to go hand in hand. So, for example, one could be quite comfortable at a B1 or B2 level talking about certain topics. You don't have to be a C2 to be comfortable in a language. Good riddance to fluency! Edited by s_allard on 09 May 2011 at 1:37am 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 23 of 27 09 May 2011 at 10:20am | IP Logged | ||
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I would say I'm equally comfortable in English and Dutch, but it depends on the context. I've been reading and hearing so much English over the last decade that there's a eat number of subjects that I can discuss elaborately in English while I wouldn't be able to say anything intelligible about them in Dutch at all. When I had to write my first academic essay in Dutch recently, I kept needing to look op Dutch translations for English words I wanted to use. On the other hand, I can discuss soccer very fluently in Dutch (for a girl :P) but in English I can hardly explain the offside rule simply because I lack the jargon. Edited by ReneeMona on 09 May 2011 at 10:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 24 of 27 09 May 2011 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sometimes, I can feel comfortable understanding and answering something simple in a language I've only been learning for a short while, and at other times, I don't even feel comfortable in my own mother tongue.
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