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Old 29-Sep-2003, 20:29
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Default Re: How many languages do you speak?

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Originally Posted by hermes
I'm basically bilingual (French-English), but I checked the 3-language box to include the partial knowledge of German that I have (I know the basics pretty well, but I haven't really had the chance to use it so it's really "rusty") and my even smaller knowledge of Spanish.
I counted the former two as making up my third language...
How did you acquire French and English- are they mother tongues or did you actively learn one? I think rusty German + a little Spanish = a language.
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