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Then how come you only gave yourself a 9 for Dutch?
Because its not perfect.
A 9 in my book is already high but it seems many people here are not completely honest about their language skills.
I can only give myself a 10 if i know the meaning of ALL the words of the language.
Spanish and Dutch mother tongue, although I must admit that I speak quite better Spanish, mostly because I've studied here the majority of my life, I've only studied as a youngster in Netherlands.
Valencian, very high.
English, high I think.
German, mid-low. Maybe a 2 in a scale of 5.
Galician, mid-low too.
Portuguese, at least 1,5 in a scale of 5. Because it's too similar to Spanish.
Italian, basic, 1/5
I understand Catalan quite good, about 3,5/5, and written at 100% and I can also write it perfectly, but I just speak it badly as they have some rare pronuntiations. I understand a bit of French and Danish too.
Feck, in this post I forgot Afrikaans, a language which is 90% Dutch.
High for Afrikaans too (High for a clean/educated Afrikaans, medium for a "street" Afrikaans), and for Fries (Frisian) a low, or as much a low-mid. This language is really difficult...
From where came this language?!? Hardly to believe that a part of NW Netherlands speaks Frisian too and it has a pretty big difference with Dutch!
Because its not perfect.
A 9 in my book is already high but it seems many people here are not completely honest about their language skills.
I can only give myself a 10 if i know the meaning of ALL the words of the language.
I don't know about Dutch, but there is not a human being alive who knows the meaning of every English word.
Of course there is no "perfect." Why not define 10/10 in a more useful manner as an educated, articulate person speaking their native language, not an impossible "perfect."
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