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Multilingual people, do you feel better about yourself than those that only speak one language? Monolingual people, do you envy/admire Multilingual people? And why? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Also include the list of languages you can understand.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago*

I did have a bit of a superiority complex in high school, but that's because I was fluent in Japanese which was considered a "cool" language that basically no one else at HS was fluent in. But after that not much. Besides I don't think most people would realize or care that I'm fluent in three languages

Now I live in a city where most people are multilingual and I don't speak the local language (French) despite all the other languages I speak or understand so... I definitely feel inferior, but I don't think that's what you are asking

I am fluent in Chinese/Japanese/English; my Japanese got way worse after HS but I can still read news/play videogames and hold up a conversation. I've learned a bit of German and French so I have some basic reading comprehension

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