Originally Posted by whswhs (Post 2542323)

Wanting single words to put on character sheets, I came up with "basic" (as in the standard rules), "conversational," "fluent," and "native" for the first four levels. I'm not sure what to call the highest level where you can mimic dialects like Enry Iggins . . .

Originally Posted by Varyon (Post 2542318)

Naming the comprehension level between Broken and Native as Accented was, in my opinion, a mistake. Everybody has an accent, and changing yours to a different one is really a different skill from the language itself. But coming up with a different name is difficult. The way I interpret it, that middle level means you have more-or-less full comprehension of the language, but sometimes use the wrong syntax, get tripped up by more colorful uses of the language, etc. "Partial" implies too low of comprehension to really match, while "Fluent" implies too high. Maybe Accented really was the best option... but it has the problem that it implies Native means you don't have an accent.