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The 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.


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Please leave any details you're willing to share about your language abilities and experiences learning foreign languages in the comments below!

Comments

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I'm actually a little more proud of it than I should be. While I was on the train this afternoon I remembered that it's actually even better than just a straight homophone. My friend had tried to help her remember my name by reminding her of the verb "to carry". So she took a homophone for my name, translated that to Chinese, and then picked another homophone (携带 and 鞋带, both xiédài, as confirmed by the google). ...I love really complicated multi-lingual punning.