How to ask someone's opinion on how fluent your spanish is...
Hello SpanishDict Forum!
As I'm fairly new to this website, I just wanted to ask a question regarding communicating with other Spanish People.
If I was to ask a Spanish person 'How fluent is my Spanish?', how would I ask this (in Spanish)?
I understand there are different variations but I don't know the best way to ask this question to a fluent Spanish individual.
Thanks, ThatAhmad.
7 Answers
Because fluency is often a matter of opinion and the fact that one can only be either fluent or not, I would say something like: ¿Qué tal suena mi español?
I know better than to ask that question 
If you have to ask, you don't need to know.
Which is kind of a bad idea to begin with. What happens is that most likely 1 out of 20 or 30 or even more people are going to say that it is bad, the rest will make you feel so good that you will believe it and you will kinda settle for that...
:-D
Edit:
I have known people that are fluent as a native, but have an accent.... is that person fluent or not?
To ask in any other way it is a problem anyway, so don't ask. Instead if you already have an idea of how the language sounds etc...just read out loud a paragraph while recording yourself, then listen to the recording, that will tell you if you have an accent or not and at what level of fluency you are.
You do this consistently and I promise you will improve speech, intonation and fluency.
You don't need to ask. Just pay attention. How often do you have to repeat yourself? How often do you have to ask someone to repeat what they said or to speak more slowly? How often are you not understood? How often do you not understand? How often do you receive unsolicited compliments on your Spanish?
Your honest self-evaluation of these questions will give you your answer.
In Mexico there are some people that are so gracious that they will say to a foreigner:
"¡Hombre! ¡Hablas español mejor que yo! Man! You speak Spanish better than I do!"
And that's when a person has a very obvious accent and some grammar problems.
It's better not to ask the question. Just wait for the compliment. But If you do want to ask it, Julián and Clio have given the proper way to do it.
'Fluency' is a strange concept. I know native speakers of English who learned it as their first language, have spoken it for decades & know some relatively obscure words, yet who cannot express themselves as 'proficiently' as non-native speakers who probably aren't 'fluent' in the sense of 'sounding native'.
I think you can attain a high level of 'proficiency' in a language without sounding native & without even using correct grammar. If you can understand the vast majority of what is being said & express your own ideas clearly, albeit with non-native idiosyncrasies, then you may well be more proficient than some native, fluent speakers who shall never become skilled at expressing themselves linguistically because they're not wired that way.
