How impressive is it if you can speak two languages?

Just wondering what general views are on this question.

I'm 18 and can speak English and Arabic fluently. I also understand a lot of ancient arabic poetry.

Is this something to be proud of or do most people not give a ****?

Reply 1

L'Evil Fish

18

Depends on whether Arabic is spoken at home in your family or not tbh.

If you learnt yourself, or were taught outside, but not speaking it at home then it's impressive.

If not, then less so.

Reply 2

Valyrian

18

I like the fact that people can speak more than two languages regardless whether you taught yourself or it's a family language.

Reply 3

shawn_o1

21

Language is the key to successful business, apparently

Reply 4

binarythoughts

14

I speak English and Arabic (fus7a) along with a few other languages
But I was taught Arabic in school so I don't think it's too impressive

Reply 5

Wahrheit

18

In this country you're doing better than most if you can speak 2. In most of Europe it wouldn't be unusual though :smile:

Reply 6

contradicta

16

I speak English and Bulgarian and english people seem so amazed that someone can speak 2 languages and still speak English without a foreign accent.

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colour me impressed

I speak English and 2 more languages fluently + 2 more conversational (learning). I'm kinda proud of that. Some people are impressed, some people couldn't give a ***

Reply 9

the bear

20

Original post by EdCohen

Just wondering what general views are on this question.

I'm 18 and can speak English and Arabic fluently. I also understand a lot of ancient arabic poetry.

Is this something to be proud of or do most people not give a ****?

that's really cool Ed !! useful for finding work as well :borat:

Reply 10

Helloworld_95

19

In the Anglosphere generally, it's something to be proud of. At a university or in continental Europe it's nothing that far out of the norm. What would be impressive is maintaining fluency after a year or so without practice.

Reply 11

samba

6

I speak a few and can curse in a few more. Always found them pretty easy to pick up. Mainly because of online gaming and impressing girls :p:

Props to anybody who can rap in Icelandic though..

Reply 12

gr8wizard10

21

Can speak 2 and a lil bit of Arabic. I impress myself.

Reply 13

King Boo

14

Whenever I find out someone else is fluent in another language I spend a good ten minutes hating life at the fact I can only speak english and broken french.

Its ludicrously impressive. And Im immensely jealous of those who are bilingual.

Reply 14

HughMyron

2

I can speak two languages, but given that I live in England, and the other one I learned because it was spoken at home, it isn't impressive. It doesn't really take any skill to be fluent in a second, or even third language, so long as they're spoken at home.

Reply 15

TVIO

12

Yeah I can speak two languages and people tend to be quite amazed for a bit, then shrug it off. It's neat, but it's not more than mildly interesting.

Reply 16

Carpe Diem Jay

21

Original post by binarythoughts

I speak English and Arabic (fus7a) along with a few other languages
But I was taught Arabic in school so I don't think it's too impressive

Was taught arabic at school also. I've forgotten so much of it tho, it's been around 3 years since I studied it.

Anyway speak relatively fluent Bengali and English obvs :rolleyes:

Reply 17

Trip506

9

I only speak two languages, and live in the country of my learned language. People here are really surprised and impressed that I am British and that I learned it in a really short time and to such a high level without any accent. They rarely come across Brits who speak anything other than English. Also back in Britain people find it impressive. It's nice getting all the compliments, but not so nice knowing they are only as a result of our reputation of laziness in learning other languages.

Reply 18

Floydacious

9

I speak English, Finnish and German fluently and a little bit of Spanish. I live in the UK though English is my third language :smile:

Reply 19

username1234032

14

Not impressive if you were brought up bilingual. I know many people who were and its just not really interesting. If you learnt it then that's different. Definitely impressive.

How impressive is it if you can speak two languages?

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