<p>Hi, comrads who are suffering from the Stanford supplements as I am!</p>
<p>I am about to finish my supplements except the Five words part.</p>
<p>It may sound trivial, but I really would like to listen to your opinions on it.</p>
<p>Since I speak English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Thai, (thanks to my half Japanese half Chinese mom and Korean dad), I put "Multi-lingual" as my first word.</p>
<p>And I felt the urge to list what languages I can speak after the word, "Multi-lingual".</p>
<p>Do you think it's a good idea? Because I think it may look as if I am showing off.</p>
<p>But then it may also make me impressive... HELP!!!</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>FYI, “multilingual” is one word. Just to reduce the character count. ;)</p>
<p>oh yeah… thanks!! what do you think of my idea of listing the languages?</p>
<p>The format I used was listing the five words first and then elaborating. I feel like if you list the languages, they may be taken as part of the five adjectives.</p>
<p>Unless you say “First, multilingual; blah blah blah. Second, […].”</p>
<p>Quick tip: I feel like it may be more interesting to put “multicultural.” Plenty of people are multilingual, but to have been raised in all five of those cultures is a bit rare.</p>
<p>multicultural sounds good. I think I’ll go for that, also I am going to elaborate just the multicultural part, since there’s not enough space for all the five words to be elaborated… 
but thanks!!</p>
<p>There is a space on the Common App to list all of the languages you know. That would be more appropriate.</p>
<p>What could be creative is if you write multi-lingual in your five different languages.</p>