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Quote: from Shaknbake at 7:06 am on June 25, 2009

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That depends on what degree of mastery you consider necessary to qualify as 'bilingual.'  

 

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I would have said that to be bilingual, you would have to have two languages as your native languages. If it's something you learned later, then you may be fluent but personally I wouldn't say you're bilingual (okay, strictly speaking you are, but when someone says 'bilingual' I immediately think of them as meaning they have two native languages, not as having learned another language).

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I started learning a foreign language at the age of 3. I consider myself bilingual either way.

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la rage au coeur

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Quote: from Periwinkle at 5:39 pm on June 25, 2009

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Quote: from Shaknbake at 7:06 am on June 25, 2009

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That depends on what degree of mastery you consider necessary to qualify as 'bilingual.'

 

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 I would have said that to be bilingual, you would have to have two languages as your native languages. If it's something you learned later, then you may be fluent but personally I wouldn't say you're bilingual (okay, strictly speaking you are, but when someone says 'bilingual' I immediately think of them as meaning they have two native languages, not as having learned another language).

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I started learning a foreign language at the age of 3. I consider myself bilingual either way.

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I believe that the age at which the brain stops being able to acquire languages like native languages is about 11, so learning a language at the age of 3 and being able to speak it by 11 would probably count as bilingual in my eyes.

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Down is the other direction.

I'm proficient in Spanish. I can't say fluent just yet, but that's my goal.

I wish I'd started learning other languages earlier. I curse my parents and my school for having an anglo-centric mindset.

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And while the seagulls are crying,
We fall but our souls are flying.