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sager · Joined: 26 Dec 2012 Posts: 35 Location: Germany

Just received my German B2 results. Passed with a "1" (A)!

Xie Lin · Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 731

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

Pikgitina · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 420 Location: KSA

I'm bilingual with a B2 level in a third language. My abilities in this language are quite mixed, possibly because it was a university major. The teaching approach was kind of old school, very academic and focused on literature rather than language.

MuscatGary · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:57 am Post subject:

C1 Spanish, mind you two years tefling in Venezuela where speaking the lingo was key to getting the girls (second only to having blue eyes!) followed by two years in Spain with a Spanish girlfriend did give me an advantage!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

It seems that the general default in the Anglosphere is total Monoglossia The ability to communicate in a foreign language is seen as a perversion by most. The only acceptable form of inter-terran communication is English or Murkan.

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

sager · Joined: 26 Dec 2012 Posts: 35 Location: Germany

Thank you, Xie Lin and fat_chris!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

After a brief conversation between self and some German cousins a local said to me, "I heard you speakin furrin to thae fowk. Hoo kin yi dae that ?"

JN · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 214

I'm fluent in German, but have been so for so long that it's probably good I am still working on Russian, so I don't forget what it's like to struggle to learn a foreign language. I'm probably at an A2 level in Russian.

My German has actually suffered a little in the last few years because I am immersed in teaching English, which means speaking English, too. I also let my students do the thinking when they translate into German, so I usually only okay the word, phrase or sentence. Only sometimes do I need to translate or explain something in German.

I would say I know a bit of French, but just enough to be a tourist.

roywebcafe · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 259

Polyglot is the official word.

Was B1 in German but probably less now that I rarely used it. Attained A1 Spanish possibly A2 unofficially by living in Spain.
Am now at the Alphabet stage in Russian. Thanks for posting on my other thread.