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Ben @BenArtik (28) 1 May 21

I'm a Luxembourgish citizen and I am fluent in 4 languages. In school everyone learns Luxembourgish, German, French and English. I also learn Spanish but on my own. I know it's important for people in Luxembourg to speak so many...

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Care to Learn Russian? Our Little Miss...

Shavkat @Shavkat (141906) • Philippines 29 Oct 20

...wants to learn it. This morning, we were discussing to help other people selflessly. It comes to the point that she asked me how many languages I can speak. I humbly answered her that I can speak five (English, Filipino,...

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Are you a multilingual or bilingual person?

Twinkle @Teekaaa (11642) • India 17 Aug 18

Bilingual person - a person who knows two languages. Multilingual person - a person who knows more than two languages. As for me, I'm bilingual and I know two languages, English and Tamil. And I am in the process of...

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Different Languages

Denise Knight @gnatsmom (2575) 29 Sep 17

Who here is multi lingual? I learned Spanish in high school but am not fluent. I am starting over trying to learn the language better. I also want to learn Italian, Japanese, French, and German. I better get busy. I know a little...

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Multi-lingual

Raine38 @Raine38 (12387) • United States 20 Feb 16

I grew up in a bilingual family. I speak, read and write fluent English and Tagalog (Filipino), and can understand very little Spanish (but only if spoken slowly). My grandparents cannot speak English fluently, but they know...

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How multilingual are you?

zandi458 @zandi458 (28102) • Malaysia 11 Nov 15

Now I realize that we come from many different countries but we are able to interact easily and freely in one universal language that is English which has become the language of the virtual world . For many of us here English is...

english

multilingual

sign language

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Are languages just reproduction of sound?

Srinivasan S @seenu97dxb (58) • India 8 Nov 15

When I worked in Middle East Asia, I learned and spoke in Arabic and Filipino languages. Philippines dialect was relatively easier compared to Arabic, because the origin for most of Arabic words differ. While some words are to be...

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how many languages are you using

marianne @ckciasigurl (2080) • Italy 12 May 11

hi mylotter i am using a 5 different languages i am from Philippines and here in the Philippines we are using a Language called "tagalog" this is our common dialect and also i am using ENGLISH language if am in the school same...

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How many languages can you speak?

UK_Shree @UK_Shree (3603) 23 May 09

I think many of us these days can speak more than one language. I myself can speak three and I feel very lucky to have been brought up in a household where I was able to learn three different languages. How about you?

languages

multilingual

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if you were to acquire two more languages, what would those be?

gquimpo @gquimpo (47) • Philippines 21 Sep 08

Multilingual, language

language

multilingual

multilinguist

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Bilingual and multilingual; facts and fiction

cyberfluf @cyberfluf (4996) • Netherlands 20 Jul 08

Being in college studying to become a pedagogue I am learning to answer questions about raising children. There have been topics about facts and fiction of raising kids bilingual or multilingual and asking for suggestions. Rather...

are you a multilingual?

bansalsakshi @bansalsakshi (208) • India 10 Jul 08

i am not a multilingual i just know two languages english and hindi and thats all but i am plannig to learn french and chinese so that i can be multilngual.

learn french

multilingual

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Bilingual or multilingual boy or gal?

titaniumsoul @titaniumsoul (1191) • Singapore 3 Jul 08

I prefer my girlfriend to be multilingual because communication makes easy when she can be the translator for you when speaking a foreign language when going overseas. How about you? You prefer your boy or girlfriend, husband or...

bilingual

multilingual

translator

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are you multi or bi-lingual?

jlara_gtr34 @jlara_gtr34 (3491) • Philippines 30 Apr 07

i can say that i am multi lingual. i can speak english, Tagalog and 2 other ethnic dialects from our country which are Ilocano and Visayan. is that enough for me to become multilingual? what about you? what are the languages that...

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Speaking a different tongue...

smints8985 @smints8985 (1594) • United States 26 Mar 07

How rude or normal is it to speak in a language that somebody in that group does not understand? Is it just normal and okay to do so? Or should it be avoided because it is rude? What is your opinion regarding speaking in a...

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Has anyone experienced with raising multilingual children?

peddhie @peddhie (110) • Australia 11 Feb 07

I want to raise my kid as multilingual children. I speak Indonesian, my husband speaks English and the relatives speak Italian. I read an article that if we want to raise the kid to be multilingual, the key is consistency. I do...

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What about Wikipedia?

nitrodona @nitrodona (418) • Italy 17 Jan 07

Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-concent encyclopedia on the net. Here can be found lot of things and anyone can write or modify definitions and explanatios of whichever type. Exist articles of physics, chemistry,...

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Any multilingual people out there? Anyone else love languages?

sarilynne @sarilynne (273) • Canada 8 Dec 06

I am fluent in English, almost fluent in French, I can speak/read very little Spanish (I took it in high school but haven't since then). Because of my knowledge of French and Spanish I can read a bit of Italian and Portugese. I...

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Speaking in Dutch

ElusiveButterfly @ElusiveButterfly (45941) • United States 2 Nov 06

I am married to a Dutchman and find it hard to learn the language. How many languages do you know how to speak?

dutch

languages

multilingual

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