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chickenfeet) wrote2005-10-18 10:42 am
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I'm curious about my flist's language skills. Please answer the following poll which asks you to indicate languages in three categories. The first I've defined as "fluent", meaning that you could do essentially anything in that language that you could do in your mother tongue. Second up is "reasonably competent" implying the ability to carry a conversation or read a text. Finally, "smattering"; can order a meal or read a tombstone kind of thing.
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And of course there are also languages, for some of us, where we're basically competent as listeners but have never spoken or written; a lot of Jews in my age group and older are able to understand a great deal of spoken Yiddish but do not speak it themselves, or read or write it.
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I have a year of german, which isn't much use except for getting to the station, and I'd still call a smattering rather than reasonably competant.
My french is inbetween competant and fluent. Much more fluent reader than anything else.
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My knowledge of French and Italian is derived entirely from all those years of studying Spanish. I cannot wrap my mouth around French to save my life, but I can read it reasonably well and can understand speakers if they use basic sentences (this knowledge was gleaned when I spent a week in Paris by myself ;-)). Ditto Italian, though I find pronunciation much easier.
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Grunting doesn't count
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But it's really embarrassing. Even my German, in which I could once give seminar papers, has deteriorated ...