On 10/31/2003 10:30 AM, The 2-Belo wrote:

> And what is "near fluent"? Either you're fluent or you're not. 
> 
> Sorry about the segue here in the middle of this fine thread, but why does it
> seem that fluency in Japanese, unlike other languages such as French, has a
> hillion bazillion levels? When people hear, "Oh, Person X is fluent in Russian",
> then they take that to mean that person can speak, read, and write pretty much
> everything in Russian. But when people ask me if I'm fluent in Japanese, and I
> answer "yes", they continue to hit me with several piles of questions to
> pinpoint what I *really* mean when I say "fluent". Knock it off, folks. It's a
> simple word with a simple meaning.

Right, it means _perapera_.

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com