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Old 01-June-2004, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Candy
What do you call a person who knows 3 languages?

Trilingual

What do you call a person who knows 2 languages?

Bilingual

What do you call a person who knows 1 language?

AMERICAN

This reminds me of an incident I had with a little kid at Hungarian Scouts. The little girl in question used to live in Switzerland but has a Hungarian mother so as a result she knows English, French, and Hungarian fluently along with a decent smattering of English. I was asking her questions about school and the friends she had there and she was telling me about her friends and such. Then she leaned close to me and whispered, as if it was an embarassment to the people she was referring to, "you know what? There are some kids in my class who only speak one language!"
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