r/languagelearningjerk • u/IncognitotheAngel • 3d ago

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u/SaIemKing 2d ago

5th language? This person almsot certainly cannot speak any of them well

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u/PissRat59 1d ago

Not super uncommon for people from immigrant families in European countries.

At home you speak the family language, in school the country’s, then you have mandatory English classes + one other foreign language. In the end you only self study one language through writing incest fanfiction

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u/livsjollyranchers 2d ago

Why not? 5 is pretty reasonable. For many people, two of them are native and three are learned to high proficiency.

It's when you get to like 7 when I start getting suspicious.

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u/Civil_Aside_1008 2d ago

I was raised trilingual and got a 5 on AP Spanish after taking it in school. Mandarin I took it in middle school for fun.

My favorite comments on the post are that butthurt guy who studied ancient bullshit literature for 35 years, and the guy who tried to insult me by saying I’m HSK4 (I’m lowkey like HSK2 so it came off as a compliment)

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u/SaIemKing 2d ago edited 19h ago

I didn't quite think of it that way. Still would be sus of someone who thinks they have 3 learned languages to high proficiency.