Re: Multilingual jugglers: are there any out there?

Guillermo Conde wrote:

Ha! This is the thread I always wanted to create and never dared to start!

Can you please state:

1) How many languages are you able to use?
Spanish, English and French (Italian and German coming soon!)
2) What level of proficiency have you attained?
Decent english, a decent french that will soon be highly improved and a
really good Spanish.
3) For how long have you been practicing each language?
Spanish for a whole life, English for 6 years now (I mean, studying it
more seriously; in the school I started learning English more than ten
years ago), and French since last year.
4) What is your level in juggling?
On average for other jugglers, a "genius" for non jugglers.
5) For how long have you been juggling?
2.5 years now.

There is something I would like to point out: When I say that my mother
tongue is "really good", it is not a ramdom comment: Not only it is
interesting to take into account your skills with foreign languages, but
also with your own one. If I say that, it is beacuse too frequently I find
people who can barely write or even speak without making too much mistakes
when using their mother tongue. It gets on my nerves!

For this reason, I would like to add one more question: What is your level
of proficiency with your mother tongue?


I was raised bilingually, so I actually have two mother tongues!
I use French on a daily basis and I still have a good (passive) knowledge
of the second (a French-based creole, which I barely use nowadays).

Aymeric.

Hey, Aymeric, I would be so pleased if you could answer questions 1) 2)
and 3) like the rest of us. I have always been curious about the
linguistic skills of the most famous polyglot on this forum! :)

Guillermo


Sure, no problem :)

1) I'd say 5.

2) French, English and Danish: native-like competence; Spanish and Reunion
Creole: fluent. I've also attained different levels of proficiency in a
handful other languages which I hardly use nowadays (but the list would be
a bit meaningless since I'm by no means proficient (anymore) in any of
them!)

3) French and Creole: since early childhood; English for 30+ years; Danish
for 12 years; Spanish: 6 years at school (from 12 to 18).


Aymeric.

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