Is speaking 4 languages an advantage?

Foraminifera
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:25:40 +0000

well, knowing four is probably better than knowing only one…

But hey, I am fluent in four languages too (English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean). There are many people who have mastery of more. One of my friends is fluent in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, French, English (obviously), Japanese, and German. He’s now at Harvard and I’m at UC Berkeley (we knew these languages in our senior year during application season).

point is, it’s probably uncommon but not unheard of. yes, it probably helps you, but not too greatly unless it’s extreme like ^^ (his application revolved around him traveling around the world and being multicultural)