I’m fluent in 4 languages AMA

[MotherFuckingLanguages]

Questions in title

What is the word for “dongle” in each of them?

Which one has the best swear words?

Which language do you think in?

My mum speaks three (local language from birth, formal language at school, and the English from her 20's). She says she thinks in English, apart from numbers when she's doing mental arithmetic.

What are the languages? I'm so envious. I think it's such a genius thing to be able to do

I'm fluent in six and near fluent in another two. AMA

Do you dream in all four languages, or is there one that is dominant?
Do you use your languages for work?
Which languages do you speak?

Thanks OP!

Which languages
What are your parents' native languages
Which country did you grow up / go to school in
Which country do you live in now
How have you achieved and maintained fluency in all the languages

"Dongle" is a fantastic question. Ignore mine and answer that one!

@CendrillonSings
llave de dongle

加密狗

Dongle

@BettaSplenden sPaNiSh

@Cuddlysnowleopard English

While hanging a picture, you bash your thumb with a hammer. Which swear word comes out of your mouth first?

Do you use your languages at work? If so, what's your job?

• my parents are English

•I use German and Spanish for work

•I live in Cheshire

D o n g l e

@NoHummus MFL teacher

My DD is trilingual. She constantly mixes the three, switching from one to the other. I'm mother tongue in language 1, DH is mother tongue in language 2. She speaks both fluently. Language 3 is of the country we now live in. I can't really speak very well, basics, so A2 max. DH is C1 in this language as it's close to his mother tongue and DD is fluent already as again it's close to language 2 and she's fully immersed daily in the school system. My question is, does she need to constantly use the 3 languages to remember them or will she lose 2 and 3 if she only speaks 1 for a significant amount of time?

Thanks OP! I have another question, would you like to learn more languages? If so, which ones?

@NoHummus probably Catalan or Russian but more likely I wanna become fluent in my girlfriend

Did you go to the Chalet School?

(In case you don't know, this is a fictional school, much loved by its fans - it was trilingual in English, French and German )

@cwg1 no, I just went to a normal school lol

So your parents are English and you grew up in England and live in England?

How did you get fluent in German and Spanish (and the other languages) then?

@AnotherEmma I taught myself as a teenager then I went Uni

You went uni?
In England or elsewhere?

@AnotherEmma uni here but spent a year in Barcelona

Could I learn a language fluently without living in that country?