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Feb. 18th, 2011 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apple_pathwaysThe POLL to accompany my post about languages. As usual, I cut myself off because I ran out of time, and not necessarily because I finished asking everything I wanted. So take note: there may be follow-up questions! XD
For the purposes of this poll, we will use the following definitions from Wikipedia, that bastion of academic rigor and accuracy: (Also see this article on multilingualism.)
Language fluency is used informally to denote broadly a high level of language proficiency, most typically foreign language or another learned language, and more narrowly to denote fluid language use, as opposed to slow, halting use.
Conversational means able to carry on a casual conversation, but not necessarily without halts in speech, or gaps in vocabulary.
Skip any questions that don't apply. Pretend that it's not weird I spend so much of my free time coming up with meaningless LJ Polls written in unneccessarily-academic language.
[Poll #1706752]
Please leave any details you're willing to share about your language abilities and experiences learning foreign languages in the comments below!
For the purposes of this poll, we will use the following definitions from Wikipedia, that bastion of academic rigor and accuracy: (Also see this article on multilingualism.)
Language fluency is used informally to denote broadly a high level of language proficiency, most typically foreign language or another learned language, and more narrowly to denote fluid language use, as opposed to slow, halting use.
Conversational means able to carry on a casual conversation, but not necessarily without halts in speech, or gaps in vocabulary.
Skip any questions that don't apply. Pretend that it's not weird I spend so much of my free time coming up with meaningless LJ Polls written in unneccessarily-academic language.
[Poll #1706752]
Please leave any details you're willing to share about your language abilities and experiences learning foreign languages in the comments below!
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Date: 2011-02-19 03:35 pm (UTC)When I was at school and maybe particularly in my school it was considered very uncool to do well at languages, even the real swotty kids didn't boast about it.
Wow, that's really interesting! I wonder why that was? It certainly wasn't considered "cool" to do well at languages in my school, but it wasn't something that was "uncool" either--like other subjects, whether it was considered socially acceptable to get good grades depended largely on your friends and the social cirlces you ran in. (I was part of the "obnoxiously smart good girls" and "slightly strange artistic nerds" groups, and was therefore allowed to do well in any subject I pleased. XD)
I am always fascinated by people who speak multiple languages! And I have all kinds of secret fantasies about marrying someone from another country/culture and raising my children to be bilingual. ;)