How multilingual are you?

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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 a foreign language that we learned in school but not spoken at home. So our proficiency in this language may not be on par with local speakers. Any grammatical errors are automatically excusable.. In my country not everyone can speak English and not everyone can speak my mother's tongue. Take my chinese neighbor who are very patriotic to their chinese roots and only speak chinese. Every evening the wife will come over to my place and start mumbling in chinese for a friendly conversation thinking maybe I am a computerized dictionary that could easily understand her. With my splattering command of chinese I respond without care whether it was right or wrong. Since then I've improved my spoken chinese tremendously . When my son married a Thai girl last year, I met another hurdle as my son's in laws couldn't converse in any other language except their local lingo. Luckily my daughter in law can speak English and my son speak fluent Thai so that save an awkward situation of having to use sign language.