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How many languages do you know? How many languages does an average career person know?

How many languages do you know? How many languages does an average career person know?

Apr 12, 2014 10:07 AM
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Hello ))

My native languages: portuguese and spanish ( my great-grandparents was Frenchs and Spaniards)

Studied: 14 years English- British, 3 years French, I also study a little of German because is where I live right now, I'm learning now Russian and Ukrainian I will learn 1st Russian and after Ukrainian because they are a little similar...I want learn more language but for now I'm busy improve my skills in languages I know.

April 12, 2014
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Cantonese

Mandarin

English

Chinese dialect

A bit Korean

A bit Japenese

Just started learning Russian, sounds like a cool language. 

And Sarah is right, its really depends. For me I don't really care how much language should I learn or need to because I just enjoy learning new language.

April 16, 2014
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my native language is arabic and i can speak english, french and a bit of amazigh and korean 

i'm trying to learn korean then i'll learn chinese

April 14, 2014
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Chinese - native

English - learned at middle school

Japanese - beginner 

April 14, 2014
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What is "to know" :-)

 

Okay my native language is Dutch, I am fluent in English, but I lack some vocabulary. I once did some test and I know about 17,000 words and a native speaker about 30,000. I am pretty good in German too, but I make some mistakes in gramatical cases when I speak fast. I can speak Spanish reasonably. I was married to a Spanish speaking girl for ten years and we spoke Spanish at home. But I divorced her ten years ago, so I have forgotten it a little. Apart from that I can make myself more or less understandable in French, and I can order a beer and talk about small things in Korean. But mostly I do not count the latter two, since my knowledge of those two languages is just too small to be able to say I really "speak" them.

 

In many careers though, especially technical careers, one language is more than enough.

April 13, 2014
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