I speak [X] number of languages.
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If you count music, I know that - too. Agreed on the second paragraph. Bavarian German is simply a dialect, like Swiss. My paternal grandmother was Swiss - she could easily understand my maternal family when they spoke German. That would be like comparing the Cockney dialect to the Kentish dialect. I suppose I could claim to understand the 'Canadian' dialect and the 'American' dialect. But then, you get into time periods. Slang from the fifties (which I can understand quite well) is completely different from slang of today - are they different languages? No! 1
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I am fluent in spanish and english. Spanish is my first language because that's what my mother spoke. My dad said i was 3, i was mixing my sentences with spanish and english. Finally i got it straightened out somewhere around the age of 5. But sometimes i have trouble with really big english words. I also write music, saxophone peices mostly. 1
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I am most fluent in English, followed by Italian, then Portuguese, then German, then Japanese, then Chinese, then Hebrew and Russian. I can speak English, Italian, Portuguese, and get along in very basic German and Japanese due to lack of quick vocabulary recollection. Side: Five
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Well, let's see... defining 0 as "don't speak a word" and 1 as full fluency and tossing out some rough estimates... English: 1 French: 0.4 (and falling) Japanese: 0.3 (and rising) So, I'm going with 1.7 languages if I don't play the "mathematics, engineering, computer languages" game to run up my numbers. Side: Roughly one and 7 tenths
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