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[chickenfeet]

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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[rillaith.livejournal.com]

Italian/Dutch are picked up from a combination of tourism and knowing a related language (ie spanish/german). I have a teach myself Dutch book, that I haven't yet read most of, and my Mum taught me Spanish until I was 10 (when Is tarted learning French at school) so I used to know a LOT more, have a very good spoken accent, and can remember an ecletic subset of vocab. It's halfway between the last 2 categories really. I sued to be very competent at French/German but they're 14 years out of date, now.

[rillaith.livejournal.com]

(Err, as in 12 years ago, Latin, French, Germna and Spanish would have all been bumped up one level. Although "fluent" would be "3 years german to GCSE with an aptitude for it and 6 years french with a huge vocab but needing to think harder than for german", rather than second-language fluent.)