I speak mandarin and malay frequently, can converse in english (only fluent when the codeswitch went well), understand hokkien and cantonese (chinese dialect, but can’t speak it well), and no i don’t really feel better than people who’s monolingual. To me, being multilingual only mean i can understand more group of people, but to actually able to comprehend and express well, i still feels very lacking on those. Also my lexicon is limited, my head can only store that much info.
I speak mandarin and malay frequently, can converse in english (only fluent when the codeswitch went well), understand hokkien and cantonese (chinese dialect, but can’t speak it well), and no i don’t really feel better than people who’s monolingual. To me, being multilingual only mean i can understand more group of people, but to actually able to comprehend and express well, i still feels very lacking on those. Also my lexicon is limited, my head can only store that much info.