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It has 2 be proper fluent, n u hav spoken it with family, other people etc. ever since - not like learning a languge at skool or other places.

2006-09-06 06:20:28 · 30 answers · asked by BigMarshmallow 2 in Society & Culture Languages

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Only English by that definition, but I think it's too narrow a definition of "fluently". I took French in school for several years and lived in Quebec most of my life, and I am certainly fluent in it, though I didn't learn it as a baby. My husband is beyond fluent in English (he is by any measure a native speaker) even though he didn't start learning it until he was 5.

2006-09-06 06:29:38 · answer #1 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0 0

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2006-09-06 21:54:04 · answer #2 · answered by fabee 6 · 0 0

I only spoke English from birth.
Then I learnt French at secondary school. Have forgotten most of it because it didn't get used.

Now that I travel a lot more I'm starting to take lessons in Italian and trying to pick up the French again.

I think when you are born to a white family in England you only ever speak English unless you have an interest in learning other languages. Most of my friends see no need to learn another language because they view English as the universal language.
They wonder why foreigners are 'ignorant' to them when they try and communicate in English. When I say they are the ones being ignorant for expecting foreigners to speak English in their own country we end up in a massive argument.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do ie learn the lingo.

2006-09-06 14:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

English, Italian and French since I was a very young child as my dad is Italian and my mum is French Now I can also speak Spanish and Japanese as I lived in South America and Tokyo for three years. I can't however read or write in Japanese - I do have limits!

2006-09-07 05:28:30 · answer #4 · answered by ellested 2 · 0 0

Spanish, Hebrew, English.

2006-09-06 18:56:12 · answer #5 · answered by yafit k 4 · 0 0

3 languages English, hindi and gujarati
speak a bit of French but would love to speak it fluently

2006-09-07 08:54:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Well, until I was a teen, the only language I spoke was my native language, Spanish. And when I was a baby, I didn't speak ANY language at all.

2006-09-06 14:38:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Only one, English, with my familly, but speak perfect French (have lived in France for 7 years) and also perfect Spanish (lived in Spain for 4 years).

So, three.

2006-09-06 13:27:59 · answer #8 · answered by savs 6 · 0 0

English, French and German. (My mother was a linguist - the first Beatrix Potter book I got was Pierre Lapin). My father spoke English and smattered Spanish and they both spoke Scouse, so I learnt that as well.

2006-09-06 14:00:56 · answer #9 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0 0

My husband speaks English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese all proven fluent. He's grown up all over Europe.

2006-09-06 13:28:03 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 2 1

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