Reporting language skills on App?

Applying to College
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<p>Question on the App:</p>

<p>"Which languages other than English can you speak, read, or write?
(please indicate with S, R, or W)"</p>

<p>How fluently do they mean? Do you have to be a native (or similarly skilled) speaker, or do they mean good enough to get by (but by no means a native speaker)? Say you can read a story in the language and write a complex essay, but it would take you longer than in english (ie, not really up to the level of a native speaker)</p>

<p>I assume they do NOT mean the languages you've taken in high school (even for four years) and have only a rudimentary knowledge in.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Sorry to bump this up after… four months? But I’m still wondering! Thank you.</p>

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<p>I’m assuming this is the Harvard supplement. I have taken five years of Spanish so I put “Spanish S R W (not fully fluent)”</p>

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<p>S fluent, R fluent, W intermediate </p>

<p>or</p>

<p>S basic, R intermediate, W basic</p>

<p>could work too</p>