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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.

[Poll #592981]

Comments

[lnr]

Hmm, I could probably order a meal in italian, but that's about all, I just have the hang of it from menus. I can say hello and goodbye in spanish/greek/portuguese and count to 10 in arabic and russian - this is all well below smattering level.

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.