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| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 1 of 19 13 April 2010 at 10:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a question I'm polling to you guys:
Have you ever learned a language to an advanced level without ever visiting a country speaking the language? This does not mean you haven't since visited a country speaking the language you've learned, only that you've achieved a notable level in it beforehand. Iversen, and Arguelles excluded. I'm talking about the normies like me. ie: I wanna see who pulled off utilizing the information age to their advantage, or those who have pulled off this feat before the info age. This also isn't a question pertaining to myself, I'm just curious. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 19 13 April 2010 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Depends on what you mean by "an advanced level", but I learned English in school, and that was before I had ever
heard about the Internet. Edited by tractor on 13 April 2010 at 11:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 3 of 19 13 April 2010 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is a shi's n' gigs sort of question to begin with, but by advanced level I mean reading novels.
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| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5790 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 4 of 19 13 April 2010 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 19 13 April 2010 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Then my answer for English is definitely yes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 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 6 of 19 13 April 2010 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I reached native fluency in English without leaving Germany.
I can definitely read novels in French and Esperanto as well, but I'm not sure if you'll count those because I spent a couple weeks each in an environment where the target language was spoken before I reached that level. I'm pretty sure I could have reached the level without travelling though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 7 of 19 14 April 2010 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Sprachprofi, wait English ISN'T your native language? like you were not raised bilingually? :O
As for the question, I can read Spanish really well for studying it for 4 years, Harry Potter and other advanced novels. Poetry does give me a little trouble, but I get hung up on anywhere for 0-5 words per page. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Saif Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5612 days ago 122 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Levantine)*, French | Message 8 of 19 14 April 2010 at 1:54am | IP Logged | ||
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I will not include my Spanish since I grew up in Miami, but I learned French and German
to a high level without visiting or living in the countries that speak them. I did spend a summer in Germany in a study abroad program, but that was after 3 years of German study in college. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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