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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You realize for people that are multi-lingual; French and Spanish is not a big deal.  Any combination of languages in Europe is normal in Europe. It comes of as: pulling a fast one.

Say you are Chinese and brag about being fluent in Chinese? Its normal - there was no additional effort on your part.
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Please stop. I am a European. Very few people are fluent in one, much less several languages. Just because they can give you directions to the Eiffel Tower doesn't mean they are fluent.

To say that "being fluent in Chinese requires no additional effort" for a child of Chinese immigrants (if that is what you are talking about) is laughable. As an immigrant I know a lot of immigrants and their kids (not many Chinese). Not a single child is fluent intheir parents' language. It is extremely difficult for an American born and educated child to be fluent in their parents' language. [/quote]

Where in Europe? Only people that are barely fluent in one are: British. My point is growing up multi-lingual does not require effort. If you did not grow-up multi-lingual then you are speaking out of ignorance. If you did not grow up multi-lingual then speaking 5 languages seems out of reach. Read the Op: One parent speaks Spanish and the other speaks French; With your logic all international students should be smarter than most American students because they are fluent in multiple languages.[/quote]

I am from Eastern Europe - a place someone mentioned previous as a hotbed for multilingualism. Laughable. Maybe one in a 500 is at C2 level for one foreign language (English).

"One parent speaks Spanish, other French" - means next to nothing re: languages their children will speak. Even if their kids attend weekend school regularly they will barely crack A1. Those kids can't take college level classes in Spanish or French. It requires a tremendous effort to get them to that level.

Not sure what do you mean by "international students being smarter" but certainly you will agree that getting accepted to a top school while speaking a foreign language, scoring 1600 on SAT etc, is more impressive coming from a student who is not a native speaker of English?[/quote]

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