Languages Academic Vocabulary

Languages Academic Vocabulary

1. Fluent
2. Native tongue
3. Have a knack for
4. Polyglot
5. All Greek

1. Fluent
- I speak fluent English and a little bit French, besides that I try my hand in Japanese because I have to study abroad in next few months,
- I have a university friend and he is fluent in up to four languages (English, French, Russian and Japanese) that is what my dream and I really admire him as my idol.




2. Native tongue
- The wrong way was applied by many languages learning beginner is that they try to translating to their own native tongue.
- I am Vietnamese and my native tongue is Vietnamese, I proud of my country where I can speak my mother tongue and introduce it with all foreign friends on over the world.



3. Have a knack of
- My father has a knack of learning new foreign languages, although in his 40-year-old he is still learn some new languages like Portuguese and and Spanish.
- If somebody have a knack of learning new languages, they will study them easily and minimize the training time as compared with the normal ones.



4. Polyglot
- My one friend at university is a polyglot, he can speak fluently over ten languages on earth and plans to become a interpreter in the future, as a consequence of his strong background when his childhood and his rich family.
- I want to become a polyglot because I love languages, I love to share anything in my country with many foreigner by their language.



5. All Greek
- I try to listen to English news on CNN or BBC, however it is all Greek to me and I cannot catch what the reporter talk.
- Japanese is really a challenge for me, it is all Greek to me whenever I try to reading a short message or watching a video by Japan broadcast.






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