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| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4863 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 21 25 February 2011 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Are any of you selective mutes?
E.g Were you unable to speak to anyone except your parents and siblings before the age of 10? Could you not talk to the teacher, classmates, or ask to go outside? Do you have normal to high intelligence? Did this help your observational skills when it came to languages? Do you believe that this is also a challenge when it comes to learning the language abroad? Please, only serious answers. Everyone is reluctant to practice their languages with locals at first, however I am talking about a far more debilitating condition here. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5178 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 21 25 February 2011 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
If one does not have normal to high intelligence, they would not be a selective mute. He wanted to exclude those who may have been mute due to an intellectual handicap. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4863 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 21 25 February 2011 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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No I did not, I merely wanted to explain what being a selective mute was, before some
people started saying they were one. I am a selective mute and I have found that this have debilitated my language progress, specially in early life, but now I find that it is actually beneficial. I, of course have normal intelligence, as do other selective mute people. Anyone else? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5023 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 5 of 21 26 February 2011 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have no problems replying to people (in any language I understand), but I hardly start any conversations with strangers unless I have a reason of any kind, no matter how stupid this might seem to others.
For example, if I smoked I wouldn't mind to walk up to anyone and ask for a light, BUT I couldn't do it just to strike up a conversation, for all the gold in the world. That doesn't mean I can't physically speak, but that I'd rather **not** do it. If that's it, I'm a selective mute, because saying 'I just don't want to do it' is just another way of not being able to do it. WRT to observational skills... perhaps it is because of them that I'm a selective mute :) Edited by mrwarper on 26 February 2011 at 12:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4863 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 21 26 February 2011 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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No, you are certainly not a selective mute.
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5023 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 7 of 21 26 February 2011 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Then perhaps you could clarify on the 'selectivity' part. Since it is not real physical inability to speak, what is it that makes you talk to your parents but not to other people? Why is it different from not talking to people without a reason?
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| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4863 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 21 26 February 2011 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't know why. It's in the brain I suppose. I can't explain it. Look up the diagnosis
online please. I was merely looking for OTHER selective mute people on this forum, so obviously these people would already know what I was talking about, thus no need for further explanation. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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