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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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[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I had to go for the cheesy on the French and Latin. I'm so rusty I need a dictionary for most things, but I can read academic articles reasonably well in French, because I haven't lost all that vocabulary yet. And if I were dropped off in France with none of my more fluent friends, I could get myself a room and a meal, etc.

But it's really embarrassing. Even my German, in which I could once give seminar papers, has deteriorated ...