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Being a foreigner in US for some quite sometime I tend to feel that I am not fluent in any language at the moment. Typically I could say that I have "mastered" 2 languages! My definition for being a master of a language can easily be different than yours.

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I know what you're saying. There is a big difference between speaking a foreign language and expressing yourself in a foreign language. E.g. finding your way around town asking for directions and simple conversations is very different then telling about that funny thing that happened to you the other day.

To me the former is not being fluent, it's just knowing basics, the later is being fluent. But then there's being bilingual which is a completely different level, much more difficult to reach than being fluent IMO.

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