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| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5708 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes  Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 97 of 113 23 June 2009 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hi Frenchsilkpie Not everyone here are over 20: I'm 17, although i'm not polyglot (it depend of the defintion, maybe I'm). Hi ILuveire I want to learn sign language as well. is it difficult and how you remember the signs? With whom you practised it, have you some deaf freinds? I havne't, unfortunatly. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ILuvEire Diglot Newbie United States iluveire.wordpress.cRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5445 days ago 26 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, Sign Language Studies: Esperanto, Italian, Arabic (Written), Danish, Japanese | Message 98 of 113 24 June 2009 at 5:32am | IP Logged | |||||
Sign language is not awfully difficult, I find sign vocabulary much easier to remember than spoken language vocabulary. I also have quite a few Deaf friends, there are lots of groups to learn sign language, where you can go to meet some Deaf or hard of hearing people, or at least other signers. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5708 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 99 of 113 24 June 2009 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
It's great that you've quite a few deaf freinds. How can you find those groups of deaf or hard of hearing people? My school's special school but there's nobody deaf, unfortunatly :-( I know a person who can't hear good, but she doesn't know the sign language. I've a question : if you write the signs for remember them? i don't write the things I learn in the foreign languages but I listen them in my head in for example a conversation. Have you this with the signs? therefore you would see them, insetad hear? I can't imagine it, but it would be very nice because in your head it would be quiet and calm. I think that I prefer the sign language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5432 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 100 of 113 05 July 2009 at 2:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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I know a seventeen-year-old German guy who now lives here in Argentina and speaks Spanish
quite well. He also has a basic knowledge in French and English. And here's a story you'll all find interesting. My aunt is married to a German man, and has two small children. She speaks to them in Spanish, and now they are both diglot at the early ages of three and five. The five-year-old even sings in English with perfect pronunciation. Imagine how this kids are going to be when they grow up! Taking in account that they'll learn French and English at school. And I am fifteen, but I can't say I am a polyglot because I'm still a beginner in German. But maybe I'll be a polyglot before 18, I want to finish high school with fluency in German and Italian. Edited by Carisma on 06 July 2009 at 1:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Québecguy Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5429 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 101 of 113 08 July 2009 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I know a 15-years-old Swiss guy who actually lives in Canada. He can speaks French (3rd language) , English(4th
language) , German and Swiss German (2nd language) and Armenian (1st language) He's now studying Spanish with me; and he's slowly learning Japanese alone. Quite impressive, for a 15-years-old boy, eh ? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lachat Triglot Newbie Joined 5373 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch, French Studies: Italian | Message 102 of 113 19 September 2009 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I know two children who speak Portuguese, Dutch and some English. There parents speak Portuguese and English. There babysiter speaks Dutch and English every day. So they have picked it up quite well. They are not even three.
I know other young children who speak Dutch, English, some French, and a few words in Portuguese and others. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5236 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 103 of 113 23 May 2010 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow, some of these kids' achievements put mine to shame! They all seem very talented. :)
I'm currently 15 years old, and consider myself to be pretty good with languages -- I was born to Chinese parents in North America and raised in Singapore, spending most of my childhood in a bilingual environment (English and Mandarin). I also spent a year in Montreal in elementary school learning French, and have maintained it up to this day, with occasional trips back to Montreal and perhaps to France in the future. I've also been studying Spanish since 7th grade, and German since February of my freshman year in high school. I'm fluent in all of them except German -- I've taken and passed high-level proficiency tests, including the HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) Advanced for Chinese [Level 9], the DALF C2 for French, and the DELE Intermedio (B2) for Spanish. I'm going to take the DELE Superior this November. As for German, I'll be spending the upcoming summer in Germany, taking a three-week intensive language course, so hopefully my German will be significantly improved by the time I come back (I'm currently at a B1 level of proficiency right now). For my senior year, I will shift my focus from Spanish and German to German and Italian -- I've started teaching myself some of the basics, and hopefully I'll be at least at the B1 level of Italian prior to graduating from high school. In summary, here are the languages I speak: 1. English (native) 2. Mandarin (native) -- HSK Advanced 3. French (native fluency) -- DALF C2 4. Spanish (near-native fluency) -- DELE Intermedio B2 for now; aiming for the DELE Superior in November 5. German (basic fluency) -- Start Deutsch A2; aiming for the C1 exam sometime in 2011 6. Italian (beginner) -- aiming for the B1 exam prior to June 2011 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5395 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 104 of 113 24 May 2010 at 3:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm familiar with several languages, but I don't dare call myself fluent in any of them, though I could live in the country with no trouble.
I'm 18. Spanish/Portuguese are pretty good, my Italian following close behind. German is getting there, I've only studied it for 2 months or so. My friend from the Ukraine speaks fluent Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and English. His English is native fluency, learned from age 10 and on. He has no accent at all ( I find that amazing) and reads novels for fun. (1000+ pages) all the other 3 are native languages learned at birth :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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