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08-15-09, 05:59 PM #1Bilingual
Interesting argument i had with someone from my school. If you know how to speak another language, are you bilingual? I say no, that in the practical modern world you cannot fully understand and utilize a language without also being able to read and write in that language.
So what do you think? Can you call yourself bilingual just because you "speak" a language?"Murder and marriage aren't too much unlike each other, one ends your life, and the other is a crime"
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08-15-09, 06:16 PM #3
Re: Bilingual
Bilingual means literally, 'two-tongued.' By that definition, it refers to the spoken language. Analogously, being polyglot means literally 'multi-tongued,' if you can speak more than 2 languages. I see your point that if you are truly proficient in the language, then you can likely also read/write it. However, to throw a wrench in that logic, if you are illiterate, do you have no language?
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08-16-09, 07:46 PM #7
Re: Bilingual
Originally Posted by CallousDisregard
If an employer expects a bilingual person to read and/or write in addition to speaking then the employer needs to be smarter and ask more questions. For example, "Which languages are you proficient at reading and/or writing? Please state the languages and associated degrees of proficiency."
Something like that.
Capisci?
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