The question of how to define multilingualism has engaged researchers for a very long time. It is difficult to draw a line, the below links give an idea of why it is so.
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Questions tagged [multilingualism]
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Introducing 1 more language to a trilingual baby at home
I am a French mum who has a 2 year old baby. My husband is Swedish and at home we speak English. Our son is already speaking French and Swedish and some English. We speak a bit of English with him everyday when the 3 of us are together.
The thing is…
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Are there any recordings of Emil Krebs?
The German polyglot Emil Krebs allegedly mastered 68 languages. Which, frankly, I find unbelievable. I cannot find any reliable source that is well documented, but perhaps recordings of Emil Krebs would persuade me.
According to the Wikipedia…
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Can learning a lot of languages hurt your native language communication skills?
So I’m currently learning two languages, aside from English and my native language, Portuguese. I’ve been noticing I forget words mid-sentence, or I get stuck in conversation with a foreign language in mind, trying to translate to my native…
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Frequent use of the pronoun "We" in "I" stead
Does any language have a word for the situation when somebody frequently uses the pronoun "We" in "I" stead in his speach?
By analogy with the german pronoun du(thou) -> duzen (use the informal form of address/call someone by their first name) or…
user23897
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What is the term/word for using/mixing words from multiple languages at the same time?
The word or term I have seen before. It is an older term. Not sure if it is a noun, verb, adjective or adverb. It is not the modern term "code switching".
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Polyglot Fluency Debunkers
There are people who can speak 4-6 languages well because they grew up in multilingual environments. When people claim they speak 10+ languages fluently, it's frankly unbelievable. Professors who study a foreign language their entire lives…
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