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Are you bilingual?
JoonasTo:
If thinking in english does then I have been bilingual since 13.
I've also been able to effectively communicate with americans in english since I was 10.
Thinking would also make me quadlingual because I often think in german and swedish too.
And I can effectively communicate with germans as well and I for sure am not trilingual.
I don't think either of those make a pretty good indicator.
I'd pick natives not being able to tell that you're a foreigner as an indicator.
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--- Quote from: JoonasTo on January 24, 2011, 05:18:52 PM ---I'd pick natives not being able to tell that you're a foreigner as an indicator.
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But then again, there are way more variables to that than just how fluently you speak their language...
JoonasTo:
Tell from your speech? :P
TwEeD:
Dutch and french are my mother languages, English as third
(but at the moment I can say my English is far better than my french)
I can understand quite a bit of German due to my dutch, worked for a short period in Spain but forgot all about Spanish by now and I'm in the process of learning Japanese atm (slow and steadily :p)
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--- Quote from: JoonasTo on January 24, 2011, 05:36:53 PM ---Tell from your speech? :P
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Looks, norms, behaviour. To pull a few from the top of my head.
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