So, how many languages can you speak?

mjt said:
I studied Norwegian at university for 4 years, lived there for 2 and now work in a private Scandinavian school, and I'm still not fluent in Norwegian.
Very good, yes. Near-fluent, yes. Fluent? No chance.
I still put fluent on my CV though ;)

The issue here is the definition of fluency.
For me, it means CEF C2.

http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/LanguageSelfAssessmentGrid/en
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May I ask where you are working and why Norwegian?

The language chart is interesting. I would say I'm pretty much fluent in English but according to that I place between C1 and C2 because I can understand everything, and speak properly to a point that people don't realise I'm foreign until I say (I've picked up a funky Lincolnshire accent apparently :p). It's just the writing that I'm not completely comfortable with when it comes to formal grammar.
 
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twentyone said:
May I ask where you are working and why Norwegian?

The language chart is interesting. I would say I'm pretty much fluent in English but according to that I place between C1 and C2 because I can understand everything, and speak properly to a point that people don't realise I'm foreign until I say (I've picked up a funky Lincolnshire accent apparently :p). It's just the writing that I'm not completely comfortable with when it comes to formal grammar.
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Yeah, most people who say they are fluent (and actually are) will be at the high end of C1. C2 is effectively bilingual.

I studied Scandinavian Studies and chose Norwegian because I found norske jenter the most attractive.
 
mjt said:
No offence, but if you got Bs in German and French, .........
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Bs in French and German?

A few years ago in Kenya I asked the South African Hotel Manager what languages he spoke. Afrikaans, English and German BS was his reply. When I asked him what German BS was he replied German Bull ****.

I wouldn’t even say I was fluent in English, a few hours trying to read Bertrand Russell or watching Jonathon Meades on the TV knocks me down to Ground Zero.

The one thing I have learnt from trying to speak other languages is just little I know about my own!

I met someone in the Armed Forces who did the German linguist course and he said that the first week of the (twelve week (?)) course was learning English grammar; learning about subjects, objects, direct objects of sentences, indirect objects, present continuous use of the verbs etc, etc, things a lot of we English People hadn’t learnt at school.

The USA Foreign Service site offers free language courses on this site:

http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php
 
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I'm OK at German, and got very basic Spanish and French. I have done courses in Russian and Mandarin, which got me to a beginner level, but now I remember next to nothing. I have a terrible mind for languages - takes me ages just to remember basic words and grammar, let alone say anything useful.
 
MiNxYyY said:
Lol bs why?

I studied french and german through out highschool and i use Rosettastone on a daily basis to learn spanish and have done for just over a year now.

So id say im atleast 85% fluent in the languages.
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I demand a simple but highly erotic speech from you in each language.
 
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