How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

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How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

1
17
18%
2
34
36%
3
22
23%
4
9
9%
5
2
2%
6
3
3%
7
2
2%
8
2
2%
9
0
No votes
10
4
4%
 
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby David27 » Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:58 am

Whoops hit 10 and hit submit (not at all), clumsy cell phone web browsing.
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Dylan95
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby Dylan95 » Tue Jun 25, 2019 10:44 am

I assume this is referring to foreign languages?
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby rfnsoares » Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:36 pm

I selected 1 language.
I can speak English at B2 level. I won't be considering the other languages that I can only "read" at B2 or even higher level.
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby IronMike » Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:41 pm

Dylan95 wrote:I assume this is referring to foreign languages?

I answered for all languages.
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby Querneus » Tue Jun 25, 2019 4:14 pm

Yeah, I was wondering whether I should include my native language in the count or not. I ended up including it.

Maybe it'd be good to change the poll so that people can change their choice (if they select the wrong one on a cellphone), and reset the current values after clarifying whether native languages should be included.
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby badger » Tue Jun 25, 2019 4:27 pm

Dylan95 wrote:I assume this is referring to foreign languages?
since there was no option for 'none' I assumed it included your native language.
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby lavengro » Tue Jun 25, 2019 4:32 pm

In the humblest brag possible (since I have been working at it mostly in an entirely exclusive fashion for all of my life starting at age zero) I am inclined to claim one B2 language for myself (English), though not independently certified.
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby Jiwon » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:03 pm

Dylan95 wrote:I assume this is referring to foreign languages?


I have seen native speakers who would not be able to make it past B1 in their own languages due to sheer lack of verbal competence. Therefore, I think it is erroneous to assume that anyone would be at B2 or higher in a language just because it is their native language.

For this reason I included my own native language, Korean. The second language is English as is apparent from my posts on this forum. The third was German - I have barely passed C1 three years ago, which means I would have probably forgotten just enough to be at B2.
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby eido » Wed Jun 26, 2019 2:41 am

If you want I could just give you my forum-wide poll results from April. The poll asked this very question.
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Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
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Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999)
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Re: How many languages can you speak at B2 or higher?

Postby IronMike » Thu Jun 27, 2019 1:46 pm

eido wrote:If you want I could just give you my forum-wide poll results from April. The poll asked this very question.

I thought it seemed familiar!
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