Being multi-lingual is sexy.FBM wrote:Fluency is a tricky term, but there's no age-related reason why you wouldn't be able to eventually be able to have comfortable conversations in a foreign language. It depends more on your level of motivation and access to comprehensible input.hadespussercats wrote:...Do you polyglots think I'm too old to gain fluency in another language? I've heard children have a much easier time with it...
As for children learning easier, that's true, but not necessarily because of their age. Kids don't have jobs.And there are a lot of researchers who dispute the Critical Period hypothesis. http://www.language-learning-advisor.co ... agelearner
Oh, and as to the OP: When I was immersed in a Spanish-speaking environment, I thought and dreamed in Spanish frequently. Now I do that in Korean. (Last night, come to think of it.) There are certain things I only know how to say in Korean because I've never had to express them in English, or because there is no English equivalent. Mostly culture-related things.
Ah. One example: Several years ago, I was driving and a cat ran across the road in front of me. My immediate thought was, "와! 고양이다! 조심해." Afterwards, I noticed that I was thinking in Korean. Cool feeling.
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I can see how possessing more than one tongue could be seen in that way...hadespussercats wrote:Being multi-lingual is sexy.FBM wrote:Fluency is a tricky term, but there's no age-related reason why you wouldn't be able to eventually be able to have comfortable conversations in a foreign language. It depends more on your level of motivation and access to comprehensible input.hadespussercats wrote:...Do you polyglots think I'm too old to gain fluency in another language? I've heard children have a much easier time with it...
As for children learning easier, that's true, but not necessarily because of their age. Kids don't have jobs.
Oh, and as to the OP: When I was immersed in a Spanish-speaking environment, I thought and dreamed in Spanish frequently. Now I do that in Korean. (Last night, come to think of it.) There are certain things I only know how to say in Korean because I've never had to express them in English, or because there is no English equivalent. Mostly culture-related things.
Ah. One example: Several years ago, I was driving and a cat ran across the road in front of me. My immediate thought was, "와! 고양이다! 조심해." Afterwards, I noticed that I was thinking in Korean. Cool feeling.
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Woohoo!hadespussercats wrote:Being multi-lingual is sexy.
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:I can see how possessing more than one tongue could be seen in that way...
multi-lingual would imply at least 3...
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Mais oui, ma cherie, muy cierto...hadespussercats wrote:
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아 양다리 치는 우리의 변태...ㅋㅋ^^Geoff wrote:Mais oui, ma cherie, muy cierto...hadespussercats wrote:
Being multi-lingual is sexy.
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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I love Google translate: "Oh beat the feet of our transformation"...?FBM wrote:아 양다리 치는 우리의 변태...ㅋㅋ^^Geoff wrote:Mais oui, ma cherie, muy cierto...hadespussercats wrote:
Being multi-lingual is sexy.
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I don't know if I think in another language. I'll have to think about it
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Jeg kan runke eselet ditt når som helst!hadespussercats wrote: Being multi-lingual is sexy.
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Geoff wrote:I love Google translate: "Oh beat the feet of our transformation"...?FBM wrote:아 양다리 치는 우리의 변태...ㅋㅋ^^Geoff wrote:Mais oui, ma cherie, muy cierto...hadespussercats wrote:
Being multi-lingual is sexy.
More like, "Ah, our own ravenous pervert...heh heh." (In a complimentary sort of way) But it's very idiomatic, so a dictionary won't give you that.
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normal wrote:Jeg kan runke eselet ditt når som helst!hadespussercats wrote: Being multi-lingual is sexy.
"I can runke eselet your at any time".
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Fire your translator!Rum wrote:normal wrote:Jeg kan runke eselet ditt når som helst!hadespussercats wrote: Being multi-lingual is sexy.
"I can runke eselet your at any time".
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I can runkene your ass anytime?normal wrote:Fire your translator!Rum wrote:normal wrote:Jeg kan runke eselet ditt når som helst!hadespussercats wrote: Being multi-lingual is sexy.
"I can runke eselet your at any time".
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Was it Norwegian, or is runka the kind of dirty verb that is delicately omitted in dictionaries?
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Oh, my! 
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