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Originally Posted by evanny
i said it to everyone. i've met people who also jump around languages like you and others without actually learning one. i know - it's cool to say "hey, i speak in 5 languages" but it doesn't mean you "know" them.
in this case with you. robin commented that you speak 5 languages.
so...... you are self thought in Japanese and i think it's usability probably is non existent specially when you only learn it on your free time. + learning mandarin also on your own. Spanish you were learning when you were a 5 year old child +5th and 6th grade - primitive level at best and you haven't used it since.
so.. in my opinion you speak and know 2 languages - your mother tongue and english.
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You can get your point across without being insulting, if you make the effort.
Or is it that you have not learned English as well as you claim?
I never claimed to be fluent, or to have even learned Spanish well. being taught and/or studying are processes, not the achievement. The only languages I would ever claim to speak would be my native tongue English, and with the caveat that after 20 years I have forgotten most of it - French.