Fluency in spanish?: What are some of the signs that I am fluent?

Question

1. Five years of study

2. Can listen to telenovelas and grasp the core meaning of the conversation

3. Listen to spanish music without trouble..selena,enrique inglesias, shakira...

4.Can speak pretty well, enough to be understood and express my feelings

5.jajaja I even told someone off in spanish!

6. I had my first dream in spanish! Went to sleep mumbling words in spanish, weird...

7. My brain now works in two languages, when I see a word in english or spanish i automatically translate.

Answer 1

If you ever come to a point where you don't understand or you can't reply simply because you don't know how or you don't know what the speaker said, then you'll know.

There's always something to improve on.

Even so, when you're fluent, you'll know. The time will come.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

A sign that lets you know when you're fluid is when you read something and can't remember whether you read it in English or in Spanish. It has happened to me, it's really impossible for me to remember in what language I read it cause I remember the idea and not the words. If it happens to you be sure you are fluent.

Answer 4

Yeah you are fluent. If you can automatically dream in spanish which I cant even do & im mexican, then im sure that you are fluent...

Answer 5

By the looks of your list, you're pretty fluent.  Dreaming in the language is a good "sign.  Thinking in the second language is also a good indicator of fluency.  One other thing that you might experience is when you're talking about something and you can't for the life of you remember the word in English, but you know it in Spanish!

Answer 6

There are no "signs"...YOU'LL know when you're fluent. When you're comfortable telling others that you're fluent and comfortable filling out applications saying that you're fluent...then you know you're somewhat fluent. However in my opinion, nobody is truly fluent of a non-native language because there will ALWAYS be tons of things they don't know.