Re: OT: How common is it to speak 5+ languages?
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 10, 2005, 22:54 |
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:36:31 -0800, B. Garcia <madyaas@...> wrote:
>So, how common would you say it is for someone to be conversant enough
>in 5+ languages where it's more than what your average "teach
>yourself" book is going to prepare you for?
I knew a daughter of Galician immigrants who had grown in Swiss German, and
thus speaking Galician (1) and therefore Spanish (2) and Portuguese (3) as
well, and Italian (4), which is the common language among Swiss non-French
Romance immigrants, and German (5) (and the local dialect which is not
mutually intelligible with German), and, from school, French (6) and English
(7) (most learn both), all of them very fluently.
I'd say an avarage Spanish or Portuguese that grows up in Swiss German
normally speaks five languages fluently.
gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust
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