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Who Here Is Multilingual? [#permalink]
 02 Apr 2007, 05:31
I just read Dukes' post in another thread that included an article on INSEAD which mentioned among other things, that students are required to graduate with fluency in two languages other than English.
I'm curious, for those of you who will be attending INSEAD, what languages do you speak?
And for everyone else on this forum, tell me what languages you speak, I know Ryhme speaks some Italian, and among all the Indians there are probably dozens of other languages spoken in the GMATClub community. Let's hear about them.
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I'm a native speaker of two languages and am starting French classes this evening.
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English and Swedish I take it? So does that mean that by the time you graduate, you'll need to be fluent in French?
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some?
English
Italian
some French
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johnnyx9 wrote: English and Swedish I take it? So does that mean that by the time you graduate, you'll need to be fluent in French?
The article I posted wasn't entirely correct. I only need to get to a "basic" level for my third language.
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Can communicate in Spanish and Chinese. Definitely not fluent in either.
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Lo siento Rhyme, I take it you're fluent then? (By the way, "lo siento" means "sorry" in Spanish. And that's basically the extent of my non-English lingustic capability)
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I'm trying to learn Mandarin so I can understand what my wife says when she starts hollaring at me 
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Hindi - Native
English - Write Good , Read Good and Speak Good
Punjabi - Write Basic, Read Basic and Speak Good
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Uzbek, russian - natives
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GMATT73 wrote: I'm trying to learn Mandarin so I can understand what my wife says when she starts hollaring at me LOL.
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Dilshod wrote: Uzbek, russian - natives
that's great! there is also Tajik_GMAT gmatclubber here. central asia in the house!
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Marathi - Native
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Basic French
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ok and above: Spanish, English, Italian.
can communicate and read adequately: French, Portuguese.
Cheers. L.
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Chinese - native speaker
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Russian - took it for my language requirement in college (didn't want to take the easy way out and just go with what I already knew). I don't remember a damn thing about it though.
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pelihu wrote: English - second language, I'm OK
Your modesty rockz 
My stuff: Fluent at Russian, Ukrainian, English. (Well, I believe my English is far behind pelihu's, but I still feel it can be called "fluent"  ) Can understand (good reading, fair listening) and perform some limited communication in Polish, German and French. Have experience astonishing others by deciphering texts in Dutch, Chech, Spanish and other languages They all have a lot in common, after all, so it's always possible to get some general idea.
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English, Turkish, Russian and Tajik
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English - native
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Spanish - conversant
Russian - used to really good, but these days I sound like a total Neanderthal.
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Fluent in English and Korean, can get by in Spanish.
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Fluent in Russian (first language for me). It seems like a lot of people on this forum speak Russian!
Fluent in English... That's it
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