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Are you bilingual?
pingryanime:
If theres any one phrase you should learn when going to Japan, learn either "Ecchi shiyou" or "sekkusu shiyou"
:D :)
Reape:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on January 24, 2011, 04:06:48 PM ---Yeah but speaking english well enough to come to an english forum doesn't quite make one bilingual.
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But then what does? I often think in English. Does that qualify as a bilingual?
flyawave:
English and Urdu/Hindi although I'm illiterate in those. I'm learning quite a few languages, but honestly, they're no where near bilingual :D
Soryon:
--- Quote from: Reape on January 24, 2011, 04:48:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on January 24, 2011, 04:06:48 PM ---Yeah but speaking english well enough to come to an english forum doesn't quite make one bilingual.
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But then what does? I often think in English. Does that qualify as a bilingual?
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I guess it depends. My idea of bilingual is the ability to effectively communicate with a person who is a native speaker. I guess there can be different levels tho, I mean are you communicating like a 4 year old kid or would you be proficient enuf that no one can spot holes.
The 2 languages that I know outside of English I don't speak much better then a child. I have to speak (or dont have to but chose to) Spanish at work alot becuz the people next door only speak Spanish. I am able to converse with them but they won't correct my flaws unless it is a major one. Even then its generally just light conversation so I dont consider myself bilingual at all.
sn00ben:
Read, write, speak: Swedish, English, Russian.
Understand more or less other languages close to swedish and russian...
My japanese is terrible. I know as much as a 1st grader (even less lol)
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