How do you become fluent in 11 languages
Feb 21st 2012, 3:09 pm
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Feb 21st 2012, 3:30 pm
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Re: How do you become fluent in 11 languages
Its not so unachievable though. My wife is conversational in 8 languages, good enough to speak to people on the phone, face to face etc. Although she is only fully fluent in 3. And she hasn't learnt any new ones since she was 20
If you learn languages at a young age then anything is possible. My nephew is fluent in Spanish, Swedish, French and Catalan at 5 years old. Although he's forgetting his French now as he's not lived there for 18 months
Feb 21st 2012, 4:38 pm
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Re: How do you become fluent in 11 languages
Feb 28th 2012, 12:42 pm
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Re: How do you become fluent in 11 languages
The kid done good
Its not so unachievable though. My wife is conversational in 8 languages, good enough to speak to people on the phone, face to face etc. Although she is only fully fluent in 3. And she hasn't learnt any new ones since she was 20
If you learn languages at a young age then anything is possible. My nephew is fluent in Spanish, Swedish, French and Catalan at 5 years old. Although he's forgetting his French now as he's not lived there for 18 months
Its not so unachievable though. My wife is conversational in 8 languages, good enough to speak to people on the phone, face to face etc. Although she is only fully fluent in 3. And she hasn't learnt any new ones since she was 20
If you learn languages at a young age then anything is possible. My nephew is fluent in Spanish, Swedish, French and Catalan at 5 years old. Although he's forgetting his French now as he's not lived there for 18 months
Feb 29th 2012, 10:09 pm
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Re: How do you become fluent in 11 languages
I'd be jealous if he actually spoke any languages that I wanted to learn lol, amazing what our brains can achieve.
Mar 1st 2012, 9:38 am
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Mar 1st 2012, 5:18 pm
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Re: How do you become fluent in 11 languages
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Mar 1st 2012, 6:31 pm
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Re: How do you become fluent in 11 languages
It says more about you than it does me
I know quite a few people who speak 4 or 5 languages fluently and more on top of that. They dont tend to be British though
Mar 1st 2012, 7:41 pm
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