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Are you unilingual, bilingual or multilingual?


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Are you unilingual, bilingual or multilingual?  

34 members have voted

  1. 1. Do you consider yourself...

    • Unilingual with little or no interest in another language
      4
    • Unilingual with an interest for one or many languages
      5
    • Unilingual, but "functional" in one or more languages
      9
    • Bilingual
      6
    • Multilingual
      10


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I speak Polish and English. And I'm bad a both,

 

Also had German and Spanish for several years at school. Even worse at those

 

And a bit of Latin,,, but better let's not even go there... ;)

 

Karol

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16 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

Did Kate decide it? Prefering not to take you to a country with legalized whores and free and cheap pot!

 

Hope you will enjoy seeing Checkpoint Charlie and the War Museum!

 

Before I die I want to visit the places I've virtually inhabited in the Call of Duty games. 

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Bilingual. I had Italian in school for three or four years, but barely anything stuck - I can understand bits and pieces, but probably more than half of those are due to what traces of Latin I remember. Also helps a (tiny) bit with French, which I never learned at all.

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Mostly bi here. That didn't come out right, did it? :P

 

Seriously though, my first language is Dutch, but English is a very close second.

My French and German are rudimentary at best.

Plus I forgot everything I used to know of Latin and Ancient Greek.

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On 17/2/2017 at 3:36 PM, BloodBoal said:

So you're an Irish that can't speak Irish? Insane Irish...

 

Most Irish people can't. 

 

I can read and understand it spoken* but I would struggle to have much of a conversation. I've been doing my best to try and learn it but finding the time is difficult. I'd love to be fluent in it. It's a very hard language though. I try and watch TG4 (Irish language station) as much as possible though to try and pick it up. 

 

*Not Donegal Irish though, that's like a whole other language. 

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Don't get me started on the spuds!

 

We lost the language but we still very much have our identity. The fact that we still say stuff like "does be and do be" is cool. It's what you get when you directly translate from Irish and it never left out way of talking. 

 

We still have our music, sport, and customs though! 

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Why does the poll allow people to select more than one option?  That's weird.

 

Also I was surprised to learn unilingual is a acceptable word; I had heard monolingual used before.

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Depends on your definition of bilingual/multingual vs. "functional."  I usually reserve the former for someone raised with multiple languages, so I picked "unilingual+" since I was only raised with English as a native language, but I would consider myself solidly CEF C1 in French and Persian, roughly B1 in Arabic, and A2 in Swedish.

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