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02-10-2008 04:40 AM |
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Originally Posted by Frank Ryan
(Post 183568)
just curious, how many languages are you literate in?
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English.
I play with others. Solon, Chapel Hill and AA can testify to my terrible Greek. But they humor me and help me along.
It really depends on how one defines that. If you're familiar with the FSI format, English is the only one at which I am a five. I only ever reached above four in German.
The rest vary depending upon time and effort. For example, at one time I knew a couple of thousand Chinese characters but I still couldn't read a Chinese newspaper, so I wasn't literate. So it's really tough to say "literate".
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