Language help please.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by whswhs

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 . . .

Voice acting classes that teach you to do stuff like that often have titles including Eloquent or Diction (and OK the adjectival form dictional sounds a bit odd to me, but I expect I could get used to it).

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Varyon

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.

Maybe something like Broken < Proficient < Fluent