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| FrenchSilkPie Senior Member United States Joined 6615 days ago 125 posts - 130 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 113 27 December 2006 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Does anyone know any polygot under 18?
Like a teenager? I was just wondering, because it seems like everyone here who is a polygot is over 20, and it would be nice to know that I am not the only teenager who wants to learn a language. I sure hope I am not the youngest one here! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mikluho-Maklai Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 6594 days ago 46 posts - 47 votes Speaks: Ukrainian, Russian*, English, Italian Studies: Japanese, French, Spanish, German | Message 2 of 113 28 December 2006 at 3:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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My girlfriend’s daughter, 14, native Ukrainian (speaks, writes), fluent in spoken Russian and Californian English teen-speak, as a child was exposed to quite a bit of French (basic passive comprehension) and now is trying to lean German on her own, while taking French in school. German is the first one that she’s trying to “learn” (listening to “Rammstein” over and over 24-7); the other languages she’s acquired via exposure. Not a bit interested in linguistics, though. For her, it’s a communication thing.
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| winters Trilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7042 days ago 199 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, Russian*, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek, French, Hungarian | Message 3 of 113 28 December 2006 at 10:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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Perhaps me? :-) I am 16 years old and I know several people of my age who could also be classified as "polyglots". It is not that common though - most of teenagers I know study few languages, but few are fluent in them. Edited by winters on 28 December 2006 at 10:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6626 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 4 of 113 29 December 2006 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm 13 [turning 14 in january] and hopefully I'll be a decent polyglot by the time I'm 16 or 17 :]
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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6526 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 5 of 113 10 January 2007 at 2:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm 18 years old and i speak a total of 6 languages (counting my MotherTongue, Spanish). I speak: Spanish, English (lerned it at School for 12 years), German (since a year and half), French (since 3 months), Japanese (since 3 months) and Esperanto (I studied it a month ago, but the book of study wasn't fluently, so i left it). I leaned (and still lerning) French, German and Japanese with the books of Assimil (french-Spanish editorial)
This year (2007), I'll start the University, in the "Instituto de Enseñanza Superior de Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernandez" where I'll study the "German Translator career" (It the word "career" right?, I didnt really knew that word :P) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7144 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 6 of 113 12 January 2007 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
Congratulations. I have enjoyed your posts.
Maybe the word you want is profession? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| japkorengchi Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6678 days ago 334 posts - 355 votes | Message 7 of 113 13 January 2007 at 1:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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If we take 4 as the minimum requirement of being a polyglot, we can find some in multilingual cities or countries easily. I suspect we can find children speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Portuguese in Macau, and children speaking Swedish, English, German and French in Sweden, etc. I am sure, however, these children will have a relatively strength and fluency in the various official languages in the multilingual areas.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 113 13 January 2007 at 5:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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My gut feeling is that it's more likely to find polyglot children in Macau than in Sweden, but that's perhaps just me. The level of foreign languages other than English (and even English) is probably overestimated.
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