# Are multilingual people more attractive than monolingual people?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 21, 2013, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-multilingual-people-more-attractive-than-monolingual-people/676886 "2013-12-21T07:57:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-multilingual-people-more-attractive-than-monolingual-people/676886/21 "2013-12-23T01:11:21Z")

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What **even sven** said, both times.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-multilingual-people-more-attractive-than-monolingual-people/676886/22 "2013-12-23T01:54:52Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Indeed. I’ve known some pretty stupid bilinguals.

Old joke: “He was a bilingual illiterate! He couldn’t read in two different languages!”

(And yes, I know that illiterate != stupid.)

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-multilingual-people-more-attractive-than-monolingual-people/676886/23 "2013-12-23T08:13:37Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Why\_Bother](#):
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> . . . skills aren’t inherently attractive.

You might want to re-think this.

In my case, my partner speaks about 6-7 languages fluently. I find this very sexy, in addition to all the other sexy things about him.

Sometimes we make love in Italian. Most of the time I don’t know what the hell he’s saying, but he gets his point across nevertheless.

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**Author:** ![Gateway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dbc845/32.png) [@Gateway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gateway)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-multilingual-people-more-attractive-than-monolingual-people/676886/24 "2013-12-23T19:42:39Z")

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> [@aesop](#):
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> I have to take exception to this. I am bilingual and a dilettante in 2 or 3 other languages. One of the great revelations of my life was that people could be hugely intelligent (far more so than I) even though they spoke no English (my epiphany came in my adolescent years). Another great revelation was that people could be astoundingly stupid in two languages (or more). In my experience, multilingualism is not a guarantor of high intelligence. YMMV.

It may have to do with if the other THINKS you are more intelligent rather than if you ARE more intelligent.

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