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| libertango Newbie United States Joined 6403 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes | Message 25 of 113 28 March 2007 at 1:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I knew a German-Japanese kid who was doing a year of highschool in china. He spoke perfect German/Japanese/English. I heard him speaking French to a french Canadian once, though he claimed his french wasn't fluent. He learned Chinese pretty well within the one year he was there.
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| llamalinguist Newbie United States google.com Joined 6382 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 26 of 113 31 May 2007 at 12:12am | IP Logged | ||
My cousin in massachusetts is 16 and speaks fluent french although his native tongue is english Edited by llamalinguist on 31 May 2007 at 12:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6246 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes  Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 113 31 May 2007 at 1:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello. I'm 16 and I am a diglot. I can speak Korean (native) and English fluently. My German isn't too bad, and I think by reading things and using flashcards, it should reach fluency in a couple of years. I'm also learning Mandarin and Sinhala. My Mandarin is considerably better than Sinhala as I only recently began the latter. Since I'm in Sri Lanka right now, I think a couple of years of study would take me upto at least the "conversational" level. So hopefully, before I become 20, I'd be fluent in around 4 languages. (I wish..)
Right now, I just wish my wanderlust just goes off completely, because even though I know I should be focusing on the ones I'm learning (and yes, I know 3 at a time is already too many), I keep reading about other languages like Italian and Spanish. :( Edited by Jiwon on 31 May 2007 at 1:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cisa Super Polyglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6229 days ago 312 posts - 309 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Hungarian*, Slovak, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin, SpanishB2, RussianB2, GermanB2, Korean, Czech, Latin Studies: Italian, Cantonese, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Hindi, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew | Message 28 of 113 01 June 2007 at 8:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I´m also under 18, but I don´t call myself a polyglot (I´m far from that!!:-((( ), although I firmly believe you can learn many languages in this age. Little kids especially.
(However, I was just shocked to read a forum where mum-to-bes and mums with babies discuss super methods to make their kids polyglots by showing them foreign videos etc. But the parents are all speakers of one language!!, they just want their kids to be successful later in life, so they should start learning Chinese (!!!) at such an early age, even if they can´t speak yet! This is tough.) Anyway, I think the most young polyglots you can find in a multilingual environment, that´s just natural. And there are the others, who have maybe spent some time there in childhood etc. Edited by Idril on 01 June 2007 at 11:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gamma Octoglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6753 days ago 82 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English, GermanC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Icelandic, Dutch | Message 29 of 113 01 June 2007 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi everyone. I'm 18 years old and I speak 6 languages. My mother tongue is Portuguese. I've learnt the Spanish, English and German languages at school; and I've taught myself Italian and French. As a seventh language, I'm currently learning Russian through the Assimil method.
*forgot something: even though I've learnt those first three languages at school, I do speak them fluently. Edited by Gamma on 01 June 2007 at 5:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6407 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 30 of 113 01 June 2007 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm, didn't you do any self-study or take private lessons? your school must be a great one. 0_0
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| Gamma Octoglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6753 days ago 82 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English, GermanC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Icelandic, Dutch | Message 31 of 113 01 June 2007 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been keeping a permanent contact (mainly through the internet) with English from the moment I started studying it at school. Such fact has brought me the consequence of elevating my knowledge to a great level. About German, I studied it for 8 years and got approved on all the certificates my school offered me. Among them, the most advanced one I got is DSD 2, which states the capacity of following university classes in German. I finished school last year, and reading is mainly what I've been doing to maintain and improve my German. Edited by Gamma on 01 June 2007 at 4:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Markymark7 Pentaglot Newbie United States Joined 6336 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: Polish, English*, German, Spanish, Russian Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, French, Latin Studies: Portuguese | Message 32 of 113 02 June 2007 at 1:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm 20, although at 18 I could speak Polish (secondary native language) and English fluently. I also took French for three years in elementary school and Spanish for a year and a half. I taught myself Russian and German as well out of interest.
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