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Cunning Linguists Languages and their use. What languages do you speak and why? What do words really mean? Can you say things in one language that you can't say in another? Should there be a national language? How many languages should a person know and what are they?

 
 
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Old 2008-12-27, 14:52
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Default Are you a bilingual person?

Hi? Bilingual, or even trilingual whatever, the point is you speak more than one language fluently/natively.

Do you find yourself switch back and forth between thinking in the two different languages?

Do you find that there are certain things you can't think in one language and you have to think in the other one?

Also, what are your thoughts on how these two languages compare to each other? I am assuming that one of them is English.

For me, I find that English is a very precise language, compared to my mother tongue. If I want to debate in a (somewhat) formal manner, I can only do so in English, whereas I cannot in my native tongue. However, I can compose (bad!) poetry in my native tongue though, because it is a language that lends itself to easy artistic expression precisely due to its imprecise nature.

Your thoughts?
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