100 points of language skill

[poker-penguin]

Something I was thinking about while in Prague this week (it's awesome, nothing particularly TR worthy, but I might write one anyway).

But, let's say you have 100 points of language skill to distribute however you want to second languages.

100 points = native speaker, perfectly fluent, probably better than you're [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] English.

0 points = absolutely no idea.

For the purposes of this question you have NO existing second language skill.

So, how would you spend your points?

Me:

Spanish - 33 points (I want to go to South America and have a couple of good Spanish friends I'd like to be able to speak to without foriegners hearing)

Cantonese - 33 points (it's the language of the future and sounds pretty damn cool)

Arabic - 33 points (it's another language of the future, I want to travel to the middle east, and is pretty cool)

What about you?

Fluency in a particular language? A decent level in a few? Very basic phrases in many?

[henrikrh]

You moron, cantonese is dying, you want mandarin.

English 40%
Mandarin 30%
Spanish 30%

Although enlgish has pretty much become my first language, in which case i'd bump mandarin to 40 and add French at 30.

All the big ones, in order to get paid big bucks and be able to communicate with as many people as possible.

My actual break-down is probably
English 75
Danish 40
French 10
Cantonese 5

[StevieG]

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You moron, cantonese is dying, you want mandarin.

English 40%
Mandarin 30%
Spanish 30%

Although enlgish has pretty much become my first language, in which case i'd bump mandarin to 40 and add French at 30.

All the big ones, in order to get paid big bucks and be able to communicate with as many people as possible.

My actual break-down is probably
English 75
Danish 40
French 10
Cantonese 5

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edited, and yet still does not add up to 100

[henrikrh]

It doens't add up to 100, do you see why? Hint: Absolute scale.

The edit was for a spelling mistake.