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| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6242 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes  Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 41 of 113 24 October 2007 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well... I knew three languages fluently by the age of 8: Croatian, English and German.
I'm 17 now, and I'm studying French actively. I understand alot and I also understan Dutch, which I plan to start soon. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| bluecollar Groupie United States Joined 6152 days ago 43 posts - 48 votes | Message 42 of 113 20 January 2008 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
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The youngest polyglot of the world,I believe,is Wendy Vo.She is 8 years old and speaks 11 languages.
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| !LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6819 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish | Message 43 of 113 08 March 2008 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I'm 18 and I speak 3 languages fluently (Turkish, German, and English). I had made pretty fair progress in French, but somehow I forgot almost 70% of the vocabulary I know. And right now I'm working on Spanish.
But I think I failed the 4 language mark for polyglotery...wait...if we count Azeri, Turkoman Turkish (the Turkish spoken by the Turkomans in northern Iraq), and Gagauzian (Turkic people in Moldova) which I can understand perfectly, and with a little practice speak myself (it just sounds like a different accent or dialect of Turkish) I'd be up to 6 languages...how I love language families :D Regards, Ilhan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| showtime17 Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Slovakia gainweightjournal.co Joined 6082 days ago 154 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Russian, English*, Czech*, Slovak*, French, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch | Message 44 of 113 29 March 2008 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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At 18 I spoke Slovak, Czech and English at native level, Russian at almost native level, French at a high intermediate level, understood Ukrainian and knew some basic Dutch...
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| kizza Triglot Newbie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6074 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Studies: Hindi, English*, German, French Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 45 of 113 06 April 2008 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm 16 now and speak only English fluently, however my mother tongue is Gujarati (from India) - which I can understand pretty well, read and write only a little, and not speak very much. I've been learning French and German for 6 years and I'd say I'm about 'conversational' level for those 2. I'm also trying to learn some Hindi, I can read/write it better than Gujarati and speak it better, but not understand as well. I've been learning Russian at school for half a year too. Finally I'm trying to teach myself Mandarin right now (its been 4 months) and I can say most basic things.
I really envy those of you that speak loads of languages fluently and I hope I can get that good quickly! If anyone wants a chat, my skype is: kiren.pandya Thanks! Kiren 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6242 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 46 of 113 07 April 2008 at 1:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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well, as a croatian speaker i can get my count up really high.
croatian, bosnian, serbian and montenegrin :) kizza, considering you already know quite alot of gujarati, i'd recommend re-learning that languages so you can speak normally. it'll be really quick, since you know so much already. rather get to know the ones you already know really well, than learning consantly new ones. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Erubey Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6228 days ago 82 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 47 of 113 08 April 2008 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know anyone who is at least trilingual and under 18. I mean, there are people who are studying, but I don't consider that a part of someone's "languages" at all. I myself sometimes hesitate to say Japanese is in my repotiore even though I am at JLPT2 or above. And I would never say I know 4 languages because I study french and I'm OK at it.
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| !LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6819 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish | Message 48 of 113 09 April 2008 at 9:51am | IP Logged | ||
Now you do, nice to meet you :) Regards, Ilhan PS: Just in case I might be wrong, trilingual is 3 languages right 1 person has voted this message useful |
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