+299 It's annoying when someone says that they are bilingual or trilingual just because they know a few words or take a class in school for a foreign language, when they have trouble with making simple sentences. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

All I can really do in French is talk about spiders harassing people. Am I bilingual? And I can swear in Cantonese. Am I trilingual?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know the german word for book witch, the spanish word for yes and hi, I know a small amount of french words, I can speak english pretty well considering it is my first launguage, and I can say hi in the launguage Kailan from Nick Jr. speaks. Am i multilinguagal?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, yes you are. Just as I am trilingual. The nonbelievers will soon come to recognize our power over language.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh and I can spell Jello in English Sign Launguage. Together we are unstoppable.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

All hail DictatorCourtney and stepdom! We are the Masters of Language!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh snap, I didn't notice your name is DictatorCourtney. It is nice we meet again.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's okay. :-)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I would totally show you that I can say "I want chocolate" in sign language. But that would be difficult within these circumstances.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i wonder if some people are sexlingual :D

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"I speak all the romance languages" hello

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Do you mean like they talk sexy or the words are sexy?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

BOTH

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Meh. Knowing a language is subjective. You can know it textbook style and not understand much(so where does that put you?), or you can understand everything(thanks to it being a similar language to your own) and not know how to make a simple sentence(so where does that place you?). Then there's the fact that each language has its gazillion dialects and regional accents, so even if you've studied it your whole life(heck, even if you're a native) you can find someone you won't understand at all. And then there's the level of conversation you can have; you can hold an entire(simplistic) conversation with a native, yet you can't go beyond a certain level(be it technological or what not, or in the case of langauges like Japanese they could just opt to speak at a different level of formality than the one you're accustomed to). I say we all stop being pricks about it and appreciate the fact that some people at least try.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And then there's the special level. When a native complains that you use big words and he can't understand you(which happens a lot with English), where does that place the both of you?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You also have to be really into a language to really become fluent in it too. I'm hosting a foreign exchange student from Austria and she's super interested in English and she can speak English like she's lived here her whole life, but like everyone, there's just a small amount of words she doesn't understand. But I agree with you. I'm learning Spanish in my school out of a book, and the book has only taught me stupid things, besides verb conjugation and basic phrases. I can only do basic conversation with native speakers, e.g. "How are you?","What's your name," and basic stuff like that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My favourite part about the beginner sentences is how they are completely weird to actually say IRL. They teach you these basic ways of saying hello and how are you, etc., but once you get past a certain level you learn that that is wrong. And I've decided that Spanish teachers are useless>.>. I've taken two Spanish classes so far(one was a two-year course, the other a semester before I dropped out), and can't say I learned much that I didn't know already. My favourite was one where she had us learn about 10 pages of random nouns before we passed on to basic verb conjugation....So basically we were taught the difference between paprika, bell pepper, boiled bell pepper, etc. before we knew how to say "I ate a bell pepper last night". It was...interesting.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's even more annoying when you're trilingual yourself and other people say they are when they really are just clueless.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Is it lonely up there on your pedestal?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My friend taught me how to say please take off your clothes in sign language

by Anonymous 12 years ago