Moi aussi...Sam said:2: Vietnamese and English.
I used to be fluent in French too, but that was 30 years ago.
Tre`s bien, mon ami.Nords said:Moi aussi...
jefipius said:English 100% (most days)
Portuguese 75% (Can't really write it)
Spanish 25% (Can get by)
French 10% (Can read it more or less)
Yes. And thanks for listing the other partial languages too. Using your scale, I guess my French is 60% reading, 20% writing, and 15% speaking.jefipius said:Oh BTW - Since the Poll asked speak/read/write fluently, I put 1 (English). Is this what you wanted to capture?
Khan said:I'm fluent in reading and writing English but I have problems speaking. I rarely speak and I think I sound weird.
Rich_in_Tampa said:Curious: do you have an accent? A speech impediment? Or is it just self-consciousness?
You probably sound normal to everyone else -- we always overestimate such things in ourselves, I've noticed.
Rich_in_Tampa said:Curious: do you have an accent? A speech impediment? Or is it just self-consciousness?
You probably sound normal to everyone else -- we always overestimate such things in ourselves, I've noticed.
Khan said:When I am talking to someone I also become the outside observer: listening. critiquing and self-censoring on the fly. I also have great difficulty reading social clues as to the response to my speaking...I also tend to talk very fast.
Apparently I also have a very distinctive/unusual voice; various local businesses I call immediately recognize my voice.
Khan said:Mainly self-consciousness.
When I am talking to someone I also become the outside observer: listening. critiquing and self-censoring on the fly. I also have great difficulty reading social clues as to the response to my speaking.
I also tend to talk very fast.
Apparently I also have a very distinctive/unusual voice; various local businesses I call immediately recognize my voice.
Anecdote: Many years ago, I was standing on a corner in Washington D.C. talking to someone while waiting for a bus. A passerby stopped and said: "I'd recognize that voice anywhere, what are you doing in D.C.?" I had last spoken with him three years earlier in NJ.
That must be very unusual among your avocation-- maybe even unique!Gumby said:As a lawyer, I often find myself speaking in court while a voice in my head critiques what I have just said and urges me to shut up before I say something stupid.