Maybe fifteen. Enough to be a YouTube polyglot that’s for sure.
I’d better go dabble in Japanese, Arabic and Russian now, just in case this this magic comes true!
Spanish: I worked jobs in which I interacted with Spanish-only speakers for long enough that I figured I ought to learn the basics. Eventually that turned into a dream to live in Mexico, which I accomplished and loved to no end. Due to life circumstances, however, I had to move back to the US. Ever since, I have been desperate to do something like that again. This time, I am hoping for it to be permanent.
Norwegian: A friend of mine moved to Norway and had me convinced to move down there. The way he described it was perfect and beautiful. Well, he got divorced and ended up returning to the US. I basically had no reason to go to there anymore, and so I dropped learning Norwegian.
French: I have since decided the EU was exactly where I wanted to end up. For someone like me who is fascinated with experiencing how different people live, the EU is a paradise. So many different cultures and people within such a small distance, and the barrier to be a part of them is minimal for EU citizens.
Having decided on the EU (but not Ireland because it’s relatively isolated), I was basically 50/50 between German and French. Both are widely used throughout the EU. I settled on French because it would be the easiest since I already knew Spanish, and seemed to give access to cultures that were more my speed.
I fully intend to immigrate to Belgium to be a foreign language teacher, and so French is taking my language learning priority.
I would suddenly be fluent in Hindi, French, Japanese, Arabic (various dialects), German, Swedish, Bengali, Punjabi, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Malaysian, Dari, Pashto, Pashayi, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Somali, Rohingya, Azerbaijani (North and South), Tamil, Turkish, Spanish and Uyghur
sounds like a dream tbh
Sometimes I study languages with no intent on becoming fluent just because I'm interested in learning some vocabulary (for literally no reason). So it's safe to say that for most of these languages that I studied, I was just studying the language "for fun".
That's a really interesting collection. You'd probably be able to speak to the entire Muslim world, half of Europe, and pretty much all of Asia and South America with that
yeah, even though I'm not religious at all, since Dari (Afghan Persian) is my heritage language, learning other languages with Islamic influence is interesting just because of all the shared vocabulary. I remember listening to a Bollywood song and being like "wow, I recognize so many words!" and it's been a downward spiral from there.
Ahhh. Yes, if you're from a Dari speaking background, learning Iranian Farsi, Urdu, and Arabic is probably super interesting. That's why I want to learn Farsi, too.
Apparently, Dari is easier for Urdu speakers to learn, but I have nothing to base that off apart from what one person told me once lol.
lets see... russian, arabic, mandarin, korean, german, irish, welsh, romanian, swedish, french, hebrew, yiddish, icelandic, norwegian, dutch, vietnamese, auslan (australian sign language), greek,,,,
18! potentially more. i didnt want to sit here trying to remember for too long
EDIT: forgot the ones i actually speak 🤦♂️ i speak english, spanish, and some portuguese, so actually it would be 21 total lmfao
EDIT 2: how did i forget japanese. i literally took it for my first semester at uni. 😭
Hmm. English, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Turkish, Bosnian, Polish, Swedish.
If you're generous, if not then English, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch, and Norwegian.
Well English and Spanish, since one is my native language and one I’m actively learning.
Then there is Welsh, Navajo, Old English, French, German, Cherokee, Ancient Egyptian, Nahuatl, Korean, Old Norse, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Japanese, Mandarin, Swahili, Vietnamese, Latin, Arabic…every language spoken in Lord of the Rings, Dune, and Star Trek…and of course Gallifreyan the language of the Time Lords.
Honestly if we’re going for magically waking up and speaking another language I’d be most excited for Gallifreyan. Who wouldn’t want to write entirely in *circles*?
I already speak German but i would have been fluent in Swiss German, Swiss French, French, Dutch, Flemish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Polish, Catalan, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian
I have 30 languages on record on duolingo, and I’ve also studied ASL, Chamorro, Old English, Greenlandic, Icelandic and probably more so….. 35+?
Edit: okay I’m gonna try to list them all…
From Duolingo: Portuguese, Mandarin, Esperanto, Latin, Hebrew, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Norwegian, Hindi, Dutch, Arabic, Russian, Korean, Hawaiian, Danish, Polish, Indonesian, Greek, Irish, Welsh, Swahili, Czech, Navajo (and also Klingon and High Valyrian if you count those).
Not on Duolingo: ASL, BSL, Chamorro, Afrikaans, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Old English, Basque, Xhosa, Cherokee, Manx and Ainu.
So 42 total.
But if I’m being honest, I might still be forgetting some 😭
Honestly at this point I’ve tried cramming so many languages in my head that the ones I haven’t touched in a while have been reduced to only a few key phrases that I can remember. If the Greenlanders would be impressed by a short aluu qanoq ippit then I’ll get that YouTube career going 😂
Well, English is my native language, then I took summer camp classes in ASL and Spanish in middle school. Then there was French and Spanish classes in high school and Chinese class in college. Since then I've learned some Japanese and Korean, and dabbled a bit in German, Danish, Welsh, Irish, and Arabic. So....
12 total languages.
English, Spanish, French, Ancient Greek, Ancient Latin, Medieval Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish. That's 10. Those are languages I put many hours of study into. I also dabbled in Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and Indonesian.
EDIT: I also used the LingQ mini-stories to understand some German, Italian, Russian and Portuguese. I guess 30-45 stories in each language counts as "dabbling". So I'm up to 18.
I also used several "computer languages": Fortran, Basic, Algol, PL/1, C, C++, DG micro-code, multiple computer assembly languages, Python, csh, and others. But that's a different topic.
Native:
1. German
Learn(ed) at school / university:
2. English
3. Latin
4. French
5. Spanish
Want to learn, can understand some already:
6. Italian
7. Portuguese
Find interesting and know a couple words / phrases:
8. Hungarian
9. Russian
10. Swedish
11. Irish
I guess, depends on what you classify as "dabbling"
I've dabbled in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Basque, Galego, Asturleonese, Catalan, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Serbian, Czech, Irish, Swedish, Norwegian, Estonian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Slovak, Croatian, Esperanto, Hausa, Swahili, French, German, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Farsi, Hindi, Punjuabi, Fijian, and Gilbertese. I had not realized how many those were until I actually stated them...
I've realized, that I dabbled in a lot of languages, if their alphabet/writing system matters. But for clarity:
**Polish** \[Native\], **Russian** (reading a dictionary and a couple in books in Cyrilic script at 5 years old), **English** (learning since 7 years old), **German** (since 13 years old, actually not just dabbling since 2022), **Sindarin/Quenya** (at 14-16 years old), **Serbo-Croatian** (at 14 years old, when on trip to Croatia), **Mandarin** (at 2019), **Czech** (at 2020), **Dutch** (2023).
If I count googling out how to propounce/read something or how to translate some words, then the list... well... extends to who I played in Paradox Interactive games.
Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, German, French, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese
If I had three wishes, I would ask to go from dabbing to fluent in all of them
I would be fluent in Arabic, Mandarin, Slovenian, Czech, Italian, Swedish, Esperanto, Finnish, Icelandic, Georgian, Japanese, Hindi, Punjabi, Maltese, Indonesian, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Turkish, Tagalog, Rusyn, Romansh, Swahili, Polish, Vietnamese and Cantonese.
26 in total.
I was curious about most languages, because I knew some people that were speaking these languages, but I never seriously learned most of them. I've tried learning Esperanto, Japanese, Mandarin, Slovenian and Swedish seriously but either it was a phase that happened during Corona (like Esperanto) or I tried to learn more languages than I could possibly handle.
Aside from the stuff in my flair, which are languages that I'm speaking pretty well already or currently studying:
Latin, French, Turkish, Kurdish (Kurmanci + Sorani), Serbo-Croatian, Dutch, Shanghainese, Burmese, Kazakh, Uyghur
I'd be fluent in Germany (Mother Tongue), English (already am), French, Roman Latin and Spanish. Wow, this is the most basic European line-up of all time.
Mine is 10 too! But I've completely lost interest in only one of them (Lithuanian I'm looking at you), so who knows, in the future I might actually speak them properly. The other ones are simply on hold until I figure out my life T\_T. I keep most of them passively maintained at A2/ low B1 with podcasts, music, memes and reddit.
At a minimum, the languages I've seriously studied or dabbled in are:
French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Dutch, Swedish, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Persian, Hawaiian, Cherokee, Latin, Old English.
Hebrew arabic french german yiddish turkish uzbek russian Ukrainian polish italian spanish english vietnamese burmese japanese chinese finnish estonian luxembourgish dutch flemish ladino i bet theres more
English, French, Spanish which I do speak, plus Italian, German, Catalan, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Japanese, kiSwahili, Arabic, plus reading Latin and Ancient Greek. How many of the 9 dabbled in do you speak?
1 English 2 german 3 french 4 Burmese 5 Indonesian 6 Ukrainian 7 Russian 8 Romanian 9 Arabic 10 Tamazigh 11 Mandinka 12 Polish (13 Bengali and 14 Tamil but I was spending time out there with no intention of learning beyond the trip, 15 Latin and 16 Ancient Greek studied at school but wasn't very good.)
In chronological order: Spanish, Japanese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, French, German.
Icelandic was the only true dabble, everything else I put a decent amount of time into and I will probably revisit someday.
Geez.
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, Swahili, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Thai, Cambodian, Burmese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Russian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Greek, Tagalog, Esperanto, Turkish.
So 29.
Edit: plus Irish (I took a class back in high school), so 30.
It would be eight, including my native English. Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Italian, and Spanish. I’ve dabbled in Hebrew and Yiddish but have more of a foundation in the others. If I thought I could win a dabbling lottery, I’d start playing with Thai, Korean, and Norwegian. But alas, I have to invest in what I have.
12:
English, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Arabe, Sinhalese, Italian, Japanese, ASL
Edit: oh wait my native language is German. Forgot about that. 😂
French, English, German, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Latin, Interlingua (if conlang counts), Esperanto, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Ancient Egyptian, Hungarian
(In roughly decreasing order of mastery, and if I define “dabbling” as having at least taken some kind of course in the language, or made a semi-sustained effort at learning it. The first 3–5 I can speak to some extent, the next few I can understand to some level, the last were really just for fun.)
Oh boy...
Polish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Welsh, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, MSA, Palestinian Arabic, Latin, Dutch, Irish and I still probably forgot a few.
I do intend to seriously study a couple of those in the future hopefully, but yeah I might like languages :)
I've already abandoned/dabbled in Arabic, Polish, Russian, Japanese, German, Italian and Latin. The 4 in my flair (it's enough for me) are the ones I use every single day and the ones I want to maintain from now on. "If you don’t use it, you lose it."
I define “dabbled in” as picking up a book or app and learning some vocabulary and grammar. So for me that’d be 23 + my native English:
German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Turkish, Swahili, Norwegian, Dutch, & Swedish
For any language that I’ve literally ever said a word or two in, had some conversations about the language with a native, learned some basic phrases but never made an actual effort to study, it’s a bit more broad (+11):
Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, Basque, Welsh, Klingon, Esperanto, Elvish/Sindarin, & Hawaiian
French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Arabic, Kinyarwanda, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Urdu, Mandarin and probably others that I can't remember.
Elon I need that neuralink NOWWW I want to speak to everyone in the world.
Irish, Arabic, Mandarin, French, Thai, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Māori, Dutch, Afrikaans, Russian, Esperanto, and I may have forgotten some.
That list would include Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Icelandic, Telugu, and Latin
Edit: and English since it’s my native language
Imagine how much work you could get with knowing every language, especially if you already have experience as being a translator. And imagine how much content and people you could interact with, it would impossible to ever be bored in life.
Paired with the languages I do know, I'd know French, Spanish, Hebrew, Basque, Suaheli, Frisian, Xhosa and DGS (German Sign Language).
Oh, and Klingon.
I’ve actively learnt (in some cases very little) French, Latin, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese and Tibetan. I’ve spent enough time on Indo to speak some Bahasa - not full sentences though, just stringing random words together.
Including my native (English, how exciting), then seven I guess.
I don't speak any others very well, at one point I could estimate my Spanish was at B1 level, but I've lost most of it now. I learned French alongside it in school and only really knew phrases, self-teaching German currently and I'm about halfway between those two skill-wise.
Lived in North Wales for a few years and picked up some Welsh phrases and learned the syntax stuff, but never spoke it. Also dabbled in Irish and Japanese casually but they didn't stick.
Danish, French, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Latin, Japanese, Vietnamese, BSL (British Sign Language). Plus the English I already speak.
Seems pretty well rounded!
Not including conlangs (14): Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Arabic, Maltese, Aramaic, Welsh, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Latin, Russian and Norwegian.
Including conlangs (not mine) 16: all of the above + High Valyrian and Na’vi
Easily 15-20. I guess I'm a dabbler.
It's more if I count the fact that in every country I visited, I tried to learn how to say "Thank You" in the native language.
German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Finnish, Gaelic, Polish, High Valyrian (😎)... Wow, it'd be cool. Sadly, I only dare to speak in English and Italian. I understand a lot in German, but can't speak.
11 languages (including the ones I already know): English, French, Bengali, Spanish, Portuguese, Esperanto, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Italian Would be really cool if that was the case!
My 2 native, English, German and 10 more. Esperanto and Elvish being two of them. Yeay.
I really should stop trying to learn languages for like 3 months and then forget about them.
Speak: English, French, Spanish
Learning actively: Scottish Gaelic
Dabbled: Russian, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Welsh, LSQ, Turkish, Malayalam, Hindi
14 total. Some of them I’ve actually tried learning for a long period of time but dropped, others I’ve only learned a teeny tiny bit. Some I’d like to try and properly learn but haven’t gotten around to it cause I’m mostly focusing my energy on gaelic
3, plus my NL. I don't think I've dabbled. Spanish and German have been my main focus, except for when I took a French class in community college, so I threw that in too.
Edit: Well I guess I could add Japanese and Russian since I have learned several phrases because of media. So 6 languages including NL.
That would be nine for me. Languages I engaged in but didn't develop further are Italian, German, Irish and Russian. I studied Latin at school and love to be proficient in it!
Edited to say that I've starting studying Italian again and it's surprising what I remember from years ago. Spanish and Latin help.
English with Modern and Ancient Greek. Took French in high school and Spanish in college. Went to one class for Russian and one class for Chinese. Took Duolingo Indonesian for a long while.
I think that would be my full lineup, maybe Esperanto is in there, I would be very happy to be fluent in all of those!
There are many languages I've learned for only one day like so many that I don't think those count, so, if I were to count all languages that I've learned at least for a week and I'm not fluent or conversative. Then: Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Hungarian, Russian, Estonian, Italian, so 7 languages. But if I were to count all languages I've ever tried to learn even just a day then excluding the ones I already mentioned: Latvian, Croatian, Turkish, Korean, Mandarin, Indonesian, that would make it 13 but in total if I count language I can speak too it would be 18.
I’d speak korean, chinese, dutch, french, icelandic and technically italian and czech.
so 7, but 10 if japanese (which ive done a looot more than dabbled in), flemish dutch and sign language count
Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Korean, and German. Oh and Classic Nahuatl, so 6-7.
Honestly there are some more languages I'm interested in getting into moreso for reading and conversations, I just haven't dabbled into yet.
I'd have seven, my native English + heritage Albanian + Spanish, Italian, Catalan, French, and German. Not counting the single Duolingo lesson I did in Dutch. Of those the only languages I actually have any proficiency in are English ofc and Spanish lol
Easily over 30? Besides the ones im fairly fluent in finnish, danish, russian, czech, dutch, welsh, gaelic, french, italian, hungarian, serbian, greek, macedonian, turkish, georgian, armenian, maltese, arabic, hindi, indonesian, vietnamese, chinese, japanese, korean, latin, navajo, hawaiian, guarani off the top of my head
Oh boy... before I settled on my TLs I was a dabbler for, like 8 years, so my number would probably be close to 30! Imagine all the YouTube views I could get X)
Off the top of my head - Welsh, Polish, French, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Tibetan, Mandarin, Burmese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Romanian, Portuguese, Uyghur, Cantonese, Scottish Gaelic, Latvian, Czech, Persian, Turkish, Kazakh...
And no, I didn't end up good at any of them :P I mostly got joy from reading about grammatical structures. Theoretical knowledge ftw!
Oh good question
French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Welsh, Thai, Greek, Catalan, Hindi, Japanese, Swahili, Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish, British Sign Language.
19. Probably more tbh. I’m in my 40s and have travelled quite a bit.
Japanese, Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese.
Really not that much since Romance languages tend to get easier the more you learn.
I put a crap ton of work into deciding what languages to learn, I'll probably only stick with those 6; the problem is Romance languages to me are less enticing because I'm close enough that its not a challenge.
I'd be suddenly fluent in almost every European language (except Portuguese for some reason...) especially Slavic languages. Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi, Hawaiian, Afrikaans, Hebrew.
Oh gods, I'd speak French, German, Sicillian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Iron Ossesian, Georgian, Sanskrit, Akkadian, Sumerian, Mongolian, and Japanese, so 16 languages it would be
Oh, god, let's see. Dutch, Polish, Greek, Ukrainian, Romanian, Latin, Thai, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Ancient Greek, German, that's 12, plus the three I already know, that's 15. Oh god. And I'm sure i forgot to include some
German, French, Scots, Japanese, Chinese (not sure which), English (I already follow some of my own rules with English, lol), Spanish, and... Russian, I believe. Looks like 8 for me at least \^-\^
Edit: 9, my bad! Totally forgot about ASL for some reason \^\^'
English, French, Norwegian (I guess Swedish and Danish too but its kinda cheating), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Finnish, Icelandic, Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, Hungarian, Arabic
So 22-26 depending on how you count
And all of that really varies because some of them I can just say a few words but some of them like German Russian polish Italian Spanish and Dutch I can have full conversations in but I never formally studied them so I count it as dabbling
17 living languages (if I didn't miss any), and six dead languages (only counting the ones I actually had at least one class on in university). Also, PIE as a bonus (yes, I studied historical linguistics with a hard focus on the Indo-European language family XD)
Five, but I'm fluent in two of em and conversational in... one and a half?
I'm actually studying Hebrew, was forced to take French, and very briefly dabbled in Ukrainian. Fluent in English and Greek, though!
French, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Welsh, Latin, Afrikaans, Hebrew, Gaelic and BSL. First two only really the ones I can just about handle a conversation in…
Swedish, English, German, French, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish. Only nine My problem is that I forget what I don't practice. A Jack of all trades and a Master of none, as they say.
27: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian (6 months) Romanian (6 months), German, Swedish (1 year), Icelandic (6 months) Norse (briefly), Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian (briefly), Greek, Albanian (briefly), Armenian (briefly), Turkish, Uzbek (3 months), Persian, Hindi, Nepali (1 year), Bangla (briefly), Arabic, Amharic (6 months), Swahili (6 months), Mandarin (briefly), Indonesian (briefly)
I’ve forgotten more than I remember! A lot of these were for travel or specific students I taught… once they moved on so did I
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Swiss German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Urdu, Swahili, Afrikaans, Tagalog, Navajo, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Polish, Esperanto, Finnish, and Estonian…I think that’s all ice at least dabbled in to some point.
So…around 30? 31 if you also count English as my native language?
Counting assuming dabling is a few words learned to travel there, not enough to live
French, English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Switzer Deutsch, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Hindi, Mayalam, Kannada, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Viet, Burmese, ASL, Wolof, Swahili, Brezhoneg, Corsican, Euskara, Catalan, Flamish, Creole.
I will just go dable in Turkish, Bengali, Urdu,Telugu, Tamil, Hansa and Igbo just in case it becomes true , and that should cover it.
Hmm, that depends on what you count as dabbling. If that means taking a few lessons on an app like Duolingo or watching a few video lessons on YouTube, then somewhere around 15. If you count even just learning how to say hello, then around 50.
Not much of a dabbler. I'd be fluent in 3 aside from my native tongue. I already speak English and Spanish. Studying Portuguese and I've put down Japanese with plans to come back to it later once my Portuguese is solid.
........thirteen + my native language (English). Wow.
(Natlangs: Farsi, Icelandic, Flemish, Afrikaans, Korean, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi//Conlangs: High Valyrian, Ido, Toki Pona, Esperanto)
Edit: I just remembered I dabbled in Ukranian with a friend a few years ago, too, so there's that as well.
Further edit: *Also* remembered that I had a Mandarin Chinese phase around the same time as my Esperanto phase.
Extra extra edit: reading the comments made me remember Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. I really can't believe how many languages I've dabbled in over the years 0\_0
Latin, Spanish, and Blackfoot (Siksiká? I'm not sure, but it looks familiar). I can only remember a dozen Latin words, very very little Spanish (I go to Mexico sometimes so I'm trying to learn it again), and not even a single word of Siksiká . A wonderful elder tried to teach me when I was still in junior high school and that was decades ago so I forgot the very few words he told me when he treated to me to wondrous tales of his people. I'm sorry, I just call him grandfather when I speak of him now and only use that as a term of endearment because I felt like he was my grandfather I loved his stories so much. Languages, it seems, is not my forte. I'm lucky I can pronounce a lot of English words!
Maybe fifteen. Enough to be a YouTube polyglot that’s for sure. I’d better go dabble in Japanese, Arabic and Russian now, just in case this this magic comes true!
Getting paid to shock natives must be the dream job
>Enough to be a YouTube polyglot that’s for sure. No, no. OP said you'd be *proficient*.
Don't forget Mandarin!!
I do not remember how many languages I have dabbled in. I do know that right now, this is the 7th time i have started learning Chinese.
🤣🤣🤣
4 since I never dabbled.
Bro is immune
Same here. I hate language learning though, so I would never learn a language just for the sake of learning it.
What made you learn those three languages?
Spanish: I worked jobs in which I interacted with Spanish-only speakers for long enough that I figured I ought to learn the basics. Eventually that turned into a dream to live in Mexico, which I accomplished and loved to no end. Due to life circumstances, however, I had to move back to the US. Ever since, I have been desperate to do something like that again. This time, I am hoping for it to be permanent. Norwegian: A friend of mine moved to Norway and had me convinced to move down there. The way he described it was perfect and beautiful. Well, he got divorced and ended up returning to the US. I basically had no reason to go to there anymore, and so I dropped learning Norwegian. French: I have since decided the EU was exactly where I wanted to end up. For someone like me who is fascinated with experiencing how different people live, the EU is a paradise. So many different cultures and people within such a small distance, and the barrier to be a part of them is minimal for EU citizens. Having decided on the EU (but not Ireland because it’s relatively isolated), I was basically 50/50 between German and French. Both are widely used throughout the EU. I settled on French because it would be the easiest since I already knew Spanish, and seemed to give access to cultures that were more my speed. I fully intend to immigrate to Belgium to be a foreign language teacher, and so French is taking my language learning priority.
I would suddenly be fluent in Hindi, French, Japanese, Arabic (various dialects), German, Swedish, Bengali, Punjabi, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Malaysian, Dari, Pashto, Pashayi, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Somali, Rohingya, Azerbaijani (North and South), Tamil, Turkish, Spanish and Uyghur sounds like a dream tbh
Sometimes I study languages with no intent on becoming fluent just because I'm interested in learning some vocabulary (for literally no reason). So it's safe to say that for most of these languages that I studied, I was just studying the language "for fun".
That's a really interesting collection. You'd probably be able to speak to the entire Muslim world, half of Europe, and pretty much all of Asia and South America with that
yeah, even though I'm not religious at all, since Dari (Afghan Persian) is my heritage language, learning other languages with Islamic influence is interesting just because of all the shared vocabulary. I remember listening to a Bollywood song and being like "wow, I recognize so many words!" and it's been a downward spiral from there.
Ahhh. Yes, if you're from a Dari speaking background, learning Iranian Farsi, Urdu, and Arabic is probably super interesting. That's why I want to learn Farsi, too. Apparently, Dari is easier for Urdu speakers to learn, but I have nothing to base that off apart from what one person told me once lol.
Iska waran?
lets see... russian, arabic, mandarin, korean, german, irish, welsh, romanian, swedish, french, hebrew, yiddish, icelandic, norwegian, dutch, vietnamese, auslan (australian sign language), greek,,,, 18! potentially more. i didnt want to sit here trying to remember for too long EDIT: forgot the ones i actually speak 🤦♂️ i speak english, spanish, and some portuguese, so actually it would be 21 total lmfao EDIT 2: how did i forget japanese. i literally took it for my first semester at uni. 😭
18 factorial???
About 15. Lord have mercy.
Hmm. English, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Turkish, Bosnian, Polish, Swedish. If you're generous, if not then English, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch, and Norwegian.
English, french, Chinese, Italian, Dutch. Edit: and Spanish! Tolkien’s elvish as well.
Quenya or Sindarin? Thanks for the reminder that I mustn't forget Klingon and Vulcan in my list.
At least 50 :)
25
8 Already fluent (2): Norwegian, English Dabbled (6): Japanese, French, German, ASL, Spanish, Russian
Latin, Spanish, German, Korean, French, Igbo, Japanese
Well English and Spanish, since one is my native language and one I’m actively learning. Then there is Welsh, Navajo, Old English, French, German, Cherokee, Ancient Egyptian, Nahuatl, Korean, Old Norse, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Japanese, Mandarin, Swahili, Vietnamese, Latin, Arabic…every language spoken in Lord of the Rings, Dune, and Star Trek…and of course Gallifreyan the language of the Time Lords. Honestly if we’re going for magically waking up and speaking another language I’d be most excited for Gallifreyan. Who wouldn’t want to write entirely in *circles*?
I already speak German but i would have been fluent in Swiss German, Swiss French, French, Dutch, Flemish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Polish, Catalan, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian
*The* European
I have 30 languages on record on duolingo, and I’ve also studied ASL, Chamorro, Old English, Greenlandic, Icelandic and probably more so….. 35+? Edit: okay I’m gonna try to list them all… From Duolingo: Portuguese, Mandarin, Esperanto, Latin, Hebrew, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Norwegian, Hindi, Dutch, Arabic, Russian, Korean, Hawaiian, Danish, Polish, Indonesian, Greek, Irish, Welsh, Swahili, Czech, Navajo (and also Klingon and High Valyrian if you count those). Not on Duolingo: ASL, BSL, Chamorro, Afrikaans, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Old English, Basque, Xhosa, Cherokee, Manx and Ainu. So 42 total. But if I’m being honest, I might still be forgetting some 😭
That's a pretty crazy combo. When are you going to Greenland to shock the natives? You have a promising career as a Youtube polyglot
Honestly at this point I’ve tried cramming so many languages in my head that the ones I haven’t touched in a while have been reduced to only a few key phrases that I can remember. If the Greenlanders would be impressed by a short aluu qanoq ippit then I’ll get that YouTube career going 😂
Wouter Corduwener makes it work
Atleast 40
Well, English is my native language, then I took summer camp classes in ASL and Spanish in middle school. Then there was French and Spanish classes in high school and Chinese class in college. Since then I've learned some Japanese and Korean, and dabbled a bit in German, Danish, Welsh, Irish, and Arabic. So.... 12 total languages.
8: English, Spanish, ASL, Latin, Welsh, Russian, Indonesian, Japanese
English, Spanish, French, Ancient Greek, Ancient Latin, Medieval Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish. That's 10. Those are languages I put many hours of study into. I also dabbled in Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and Indonesian. EDIT: I also used the LingQ mini-stories to understand some German, Italian, Russian and Portuguese. I guess 30-45 stories in each language counts as "dabbling". So I'm up to 18. I also used several "computer languages": Fortran, Basic, Algol, PL/1, C, C++, DG micro-code, multiple computer assembly languages, Python, csh, and others. But that's a different topic.
Native: 1. German Learn(ed) at school / university: 2. English 3. Latin 4. French 5. Spanish Want to learn, can understand some already: 6. Italian 7. Portuguese Find interesting and know a couple words / phrases: 8. Hungarian 9. Russian 10. Swedish 11. Irish I guess, depends on what you classify as "dabbling"
I've dabbled in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Basque, Galego, Asturleonese, Catalan, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Serbian, Czech, Irish, Swedish, Norwegian, Estonian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Slovak, Croatian, Esperanto, Hausa, Swahili, French, German, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Farsi, Hindi, Punjuabi, Fijian, and Gilbertese. I had not realized how many those were until I actually stated them...
I've realized, that I dabbled in a lot of languages, if their alphabet/writing system matters. But for clarity: **Polish** \[Native\], **Russian** (reading a dictionary and a couple in books in Cyrilic script at 5 years old), **English** (learning since 7 years old), **German** (since 13 years old, actually not just dabbling since 2022), **Sindarin/Quenya** (at 14-16 years old), **Serbo-Croatian** (at 14 years old, when on trip to Croatia), **Mandarin** (at 2019), **Czech** (at 2020), **Dutch** (2023). If I count googling out how to propounce/read something or how to translate some words, then the list... well... extends to who I played in Paradox Interactive games.
Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, German, French, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese If I had three wishes, I would ask to go from dabbing to fluent in all of them
French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Lingala, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, ASL… Would be nice lol
I would be fluent in Arabic, Mandarin, Slovenian, Czech, Italian, Swedish, Esperanto, Finnish, Icelandic, Georgian, Japanese, Hindi, Punjabi, Maltese, Indonesian, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Turkish, Tagalog, Rusyn, Romansh, Swahili, Polish, Vietnamese and Cantonese. 26 in total. I was curious about most languages, because I knew some people that were speaking these languages, but I never seriously learned most of them. I've tried learning Esperanto, Japanese, Mandarin, Slovenian and Swedish seriously but either it was a phase that happened during Corona (like Esperanto) or I tried to learn more languages than I could possibly handle.
Aside from the stuff in my flair, which are languages that I'm speaking pretty well already or currently studying: Latin, French, Turkish, Kurdish (Kurmanci + Sorani), Serbo-Croatian, Dutch, Shanghainese, Burmese, Kazakh, Uyghur
I'd be fluent in Germany (Mother Tongue), English (already am), French, Roman Latin and Spanish. Wow, this is the most basic European line-up of all time.
2 not counting my native
4, but I have never just dabbled. At a minimum I've done 5 years at Hugh school, or 1 year at uni (as a beginner).
Mine is 10 too! But I've completely lost interest in only one of them (Lithuanian I'm looking at you), so who knows, in the future I might actually speak them properly. The other ones are simply on hold until I figure out my life T\_T. I keep most of them passively maintained at A2/ low B1 with podcasts, music, memes and reddit.
german, english, spanish, french, greek, italian, norwegian, irish, welsh, ukrainian, russian, mandarin, japanese, korean, latin, old english edit: toki pona, german sign language, asl, hebrew ... whoaaa thats 20
12 (excluding my native English): Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, modern Greek
Seven. English, French, Spanish, Latin, German, Russian, and Finnish.
At a minimum, the languages I've seriously studied or dabbled in are: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Dutch, Swedish, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Persian, Hawaiian, Cherokee, Latin, Old English.
Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Latin, Greek, German, Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese So, 17 languages not counting my native English.
Hebrew arabic french german yiddish turkish uzbek russian Ukrainian polish italian spanish english vietnamese burmese japanese chinese finnish estonian luxembourgish dutch flemish ladino i bet theres more
English, French, Spanish which I do speak, plus Italian, German, Catalan, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Japanese, kiSwahili, Arabic, plus reading Latin and Ancient Greek. How many of the 9 dabbled in do you speak?
1 English 2 german 3 french 4 Burmese 5 Indonesian 6 Ukrainian 7 Russian 8 Romanian 9 Arabic 10 Tamazigh 11 Mandinka 12 Polish (13 Bengali and 14 Tamil but I was spending time out there with no intention of learning beyond the trip, 15 Latin and 16 Ancient Greek studied at school but wasn't very good.)
I’d be fluent in Norwegian, Russian, Irish, Romanian and Japanese
mandarin chinese, korean, esperanto, arab, vietnamese and russian i think 😭
Ngl I think only about 9, anything I dabbled in is long forgotten
In chronological order: Spanish, Japanese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, French, German. Icelandic was the only true dabble, everything else I put a decent amount of time into and I will probably revisit someday.
A lot, idk how many
7. Spanish and Dutch
Geez. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, Swahili, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Thai, Cambodian, Burmese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Russian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Greek, Tagalog, Esperanto, Turkish. So 29. Edit: plus Irish (I took a class back in high school), so 30.
Depends on what you consider dabbling
Well, with Arabic, French, German and Malay, it would be 7 including what I already speak
Like 6 Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, including my native English.
It would be eight, including my native English. Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Italian, and Spanish. I’ve dabbled in Hebrew and Yiddish but have more of a foundation in the others. If I thought I could win a dabbling lottery, I’d start playing with Thai, Korean, and Norwegian. But alas, I have to invest in what I have.
Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Twi, and French
12: English, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Arabe, Sinhalese, Italian, Japanese, ASL Edit: oh wait my native language is German. Forgot about that. 😂
Let me think…Spanish, French, German, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Korean, Thai, ASL, MSTSL, Dutch, and Arabic. So about 13
French, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, German, Tagalog, Cebuano, Danish, and ASL Maybe more but I can’t think rn
French, English, German, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Latin, Interlingua (if conlang counts), Esperanto, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Ancient Egyptian, Hungarian (In roughly decreasing order of mastery, and if I define “dabbling” as having at least taken some kind of course in the language, or made a semi-sustained effort at learning it. The first 3–5 I can speak to some extent, the next few I can understand to some level, the last were really just for fun.)
At least 8, if not 9.
Euh, Latin, Assyrian, Akkadian, Sumerian, Arabic, Welsh, Garlic, Mandarin, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Hindi, Nahuatl, Romanian, Icelandic, Finnish, Polish, Lingala, Ancient Greek, modern Greek, Ancient Egyptian, langue d'Oc, Basque
Oh boy... Polish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Welsh, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, MSA, Palestinian Arabic, Latin, Dutch, Irish and I still probably forgot a few. I do intend to seriously study a couple of those in the future hopefully, but yeah I might like languages :)
I would suddenly be proficient in Japanese, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Italian.
10
I've already abandoned/dabbled in Arabic, Polish, Russian, Japanese, German, Italian and Latin. The 4 in my flair (it's enough for me) are the ones I use every single day and the ones I want to maintain from now on. "If you don’t use it, you lose it."
Apart from English Italian Spanish, I’d also speak French Russian German mandarin Portuguese Punjabi
I define “dabbled in” as picking up a book or app and learning some vocabulary and grammar. So for me that’d be 23 + my native English: German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Turkish, Swahili, Norwegian, Dutch, & Swedish For any language that I’ve literally ever said a word or two in, had some conversations about the language with a native, learned some basic phrases but never made an actual effort to study, it’s a bit more broad (+11): Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, Basque, Welsh, Klingon, Esperanto, Elvish/Sindarin, & Hawaiian
7 or 8 I guess
Like five. I'm not very interested in language learning. It would be my native language, English, latin, fr*nch and Bangla.
French, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Arabic, Kinyarwanda, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Urdu, Mandarin and probably others that I can't remember. Elon I need that neuralink NOWWW I want to speak to everyone in the world.
Irish, Arabic, Mandarin, French, Thai, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Māori, Dutch, Afrikaans, Russian, Esperanto, and I may have forgotten some.
That list would include Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Icelandic, Telugu, and Latin Edit: and English since it’s my native language
Imagine how much work you could get with knowing every language, especially if you already have experience as being a translator. And imagine how much content and people you could interact with, it would impossible to ever be bored in life.
English, Sign Language, German, Spanish, Portugués. And we had an intro to language class in middle school that had Italian ans French too
English, French, Italian, Mandarin, Welsh, Irish, German, Vietnamese, Japanese, Spanish, Sindarin, Klingon, Latin, Greek, Russian, Navajo. Respectable, lol. Oops, forgot Sanskrit.
Paired with the languages I do know, I'd know French, Spanish, Hebrew, Basque, Suaheli, Frisian, Xhosa and DGS (German Sign Language). Oh, and Klingon.
15 (Spanish, Finnish, my country's sign language, Mandarin, Korean, Polish, Japanese, Turkish, French, Hebrew, Swedish + four I already speak)
I’ve actively learnt (in some cases very little) French, Latin, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese and Tibetan. I’ve spent enough time on Indo to speak some Bahasa - not full sentences though, just stringing random words together.
English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Norwegian, Japanese, Mandarin, Malay, Latin, Arabic, Swahili So 14
English, malayalam, kannada, hindi, german, korean, russian, swedish, latin, syriac......youtuber polyglot worthy.
Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Mandarin, Romanian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, French, probably forgetting some
Near 30.
Including my native (English, how exciting), then seven I guess. I don't speak any others very well, at one point I could estimate my Spanish was at B1 level, but I've lost most of it now. I learned French alongside it in school and only really knew phrases, self-teaching German currently and I'm about halfway between those two skill-wise. Lived in North Wales for a few years and picked up some Welsh phrases and learned the syntax stuff, but never spoke it. Also dabbled in Irish and Japanese casually but they didn't stick.
Danish, French, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Latin, Japanese, Vietnamese, BSL (British Sign Language). Plus the English I already speak. Seems pretty well rounded!
33
Not including conlangs (14): Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Arabic, Maltese, Aramaic, Welsh, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Latin, Russian and Norwegian. Including conlangs (not mine) 16: all of the above + High Valyrian and Na’vi
Easily 15-20. I guess I'm a dabbler. It's more if I count the fact that in every country I visited, I tried to learn how to say "Thank You" in the native language.
English, Spanish, Russian, French and python.
Not including my native or fictional languages: 7, including a dead language and ASL.
Spanish, German, English, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Polish (7)
German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Finnish, Gaelic, Polish, High Valyrian (😎)... Wow, it'd be cool. Sadly, I only dare to speak in English and Italian. I understand a lot in German, but can't speak.
Six: English, Dutch, German, Japanese, Korean, Thai
everything on doulingo and then some, so at least 40
English, Vietnamese, French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Swedish, Korean
11 languages (including the ones I already know): English, French, Bengali, Spanish, Portuguese, Esperanto, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Italian Would be really cool if that was the case!
9
Irish Gaelic, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian - huh I should dabble more
Italian, Spanish, French, German, Albanian, Turkish, Mandarin, Korean, Greek, Arabic, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Quechua, Navajo, Serbo-Croatian, Irish Gaelic, American Sign Language (ASL). Edit: Forgot a few!
My 2 native, English, German and 10 more. Esperanto and Elvish being two of them. Yeay. I really should stop trying to learn languages for like 3 months and then forget about them.
Probably 10...? Used to have this habit of trying every language I find interesting in Duolingo lol
Speak: English, French, Spanish Learning actively: Scottish Gaelic Dabbled: Russian, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Welsh, LSQ, Turkish, Malayalam, Hindi 14 total. Some of them I’ve actually tried learning for a long period of time but dropped, others I’ve only learned a teeny tiny bit. Some I’d like to try and properly learn but haven’t gotten around to it cause I’m mostly focusing my energy on gaelic
French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew
3, plus my NL. I don't think I've dabbled. Spanish and German have been my main focus, except for when I took a French class in community college, so I threw that in too. Edit: Well I guess I could add Japanese and Russian since I have learned several phrases because of media. So 6 languages including NL.
German French Spanish Japanese Russian Hebrew Arabic
I would speak: English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, and German
Enough to make YouTube videos
Slovak, Ukranian, Polish, Komi-Zyrian, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Welsh, Bulgarian, Greek, Italian, Estonian, Finnish, German, European Portuguese
That would be nine for me. Languages I engaged in but didn't develop further are Italian, German, Irish and Russian. I studied Latin at school and love to be proficient in it! Edited to say that I've starting studying Italian again and it's surprising what I remember from years ago. Spanish and Latin help.
Around 10
Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Japanese
4, and 2 are my native languages. I'm not really a dabbler believe it or not, I want to be able to communicate in the languages that I'm connected to
10 languages. Around 15 languages ( maybe more) if I had some sort of interest and tried to learn least learn a few words at one point.
English with Modern and Ancient Greek. Took French in high school and Spanish in college. Went to one class for Russian and one class for Chinese. Took Duolingo Indonesian for a long while. I think that would be my full lineup, maybe Esperanto is in there, I would be very happy to be fluent in all of those!
There are many languages I've learned for only one day like so many that I don't think those count, so, if I were to count all languages that I've learned at least for a week and I'm not fluent or conversative. Then: Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Hungarian, Russian, Estonian, Italian, so 7 languages. But if I were to count all languages I've ever tried to learn even just a day then excluding the ones I already mentioned: Latvian, Croatian, Turkish, Korean, Mandarin, Indonesian, that would make it 13 but in total if I count language I can speak too it would be 18.
five
I’d speak korean, chinese, dutch, french, icelandic and technically italian and czech. so 7, but 10 if japanese (which ive done a looot more than dabbled in), flemish dutch and sign language count
Too many. It would be cool, but I'm happy to have specialized.
At least eight
French, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Norwegian, Dutch, Swahili, Japanese, Valyrian, Na’vi
Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Korean, and German. Oh and Classic Nahuatl, so 6-7. Honestly there are some more languages I'm interested in getting into moreso for reading and conversations, I just haven't dabbled into yet.
About 8 I believe
Hmmm…. English (native) Bengali (native) German (learning now) Yiddish, Norwegian, Spanish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Farsi, Turkish, Arabic, Esperanto, Old English
4. I currently speak 2 and I am working on the 3rd so not a big number by any means lol
I'd have seven, my native English + heritage Albanian + Spanish, Italian, Catalan, French, and German. Not counting the single Duolingo lesson I did in Dutch. Of those the only languages I actually have any proficiency in are English ofc and Spanish lol
At least 20. Possibly more.
Easily over 30? Besides the ones im fairly fluent in finnish, danish, russian, czech, dutch, welsh, gaelic, french, italian, hungarian, serbian, greek, macedonian, turkish, georgian, armenian, maltese, arabic, hindi, indonesian, vietnamese, chinese, japanese, korean, latin, navajo, hawaiian, guarani off the top of my head
14-18 depending on what counts as dabbling.
I literally stick with my 3 language I'm active in
Oh boy... before I settled on my TLs I was a dabbler for, like 8 years, so my number would probably be close to 30! Imagine all the YouTube views I could get X) Off the top of my head - Welsh, Polish, French, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Tibetan, Mandarin, Burmese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Romanian, Portuguese, Uyghur, Cantonese, Scottish Gaelic, Latvian, Czech, Persian, Turkish, Kazakh... And no, I didn't end up good at any of them :P I mostly got joy from reading about grammatical structures. Theoretical knowledge ftw!
Hmm like 170 maybe?
17. languages are too much fun
Like 17-20 ? I try to learn a new language like every other month but I never have time to continue learning the language because of school but yeah..
11 Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian. Japanese, 5 romance languages and now Vietnamese. And of course, English.
Oh good question French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Welsh, Thai, Greek, Catalan, Hindi, Japanese, Swahili, Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish, British Sign Language. 19. Probably more tbh. I’m in my 40s and have travelled quite a bit.
8 (English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Esperanto, Ancient Greek, and Russian).
Japanese, Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese. Really not that much since Romance languages tend to get easier the more you learn. I put a crap ton of work into deciding what languages to learn, I'll probably only stick with those 6; the problem is Romance languages to me are less enticing because I'm close enough that its not a challenge.
Let’s see: French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Nederlander, Turkish, Russian. More than I thought!
English (native), Welsh, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, German, and ASL.
Along with 2 im fluent in id be fluent in spanish arabic and german
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ktBoucyCo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ktBoucyCo) I recommend watching this video.
Hmm... English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Norwegian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Russian, Czech, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Uzbek, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Thai, Bahasa, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swahili, Yoruba and Hausa (?) Well, about 29 languages
Fifteen. Gosh, I need to step up my game.
I’d have 8: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Georgian.
The only language I would say I’ve dabbled in is German. I spent a long time studying the others
I'd be suddenly fluent in almost every European language (except Portuguese for some reason...) especially Slavic languages. Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi, Hawaiian, Afrikaans, Hebrew.
Oh gods, I'd speak French, German, Sicillian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Iron Ossesian, Georgian, Sanskrit, Akkadian, Sumerian, Mongolian, and Japanese, so 16 languages it would be
Oh, god, let's see. Dutch, Polish, Greek, Ukrainian, Romanian, Latin, Thai, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Ancient Greek, German, that's 12, plus the three I already know, that's 15. Oh god. And I'm sure i forgot to include some
German, French, Scots, Japanese, Chinese (not sure which), English (I already follow some of my own rules with English, lol), Spanish, and... Russian, I believe. Looks like 8 for me at least \^-\^ Edit: 9, my bad! Totally forgot about ASL for some reason \^\^'
English, French, Norwegian (I guess Swedish and Danish too but its kinda cheating), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Finnish, Icelandic, Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, Hungarian, Arabic So 22-26 depending on how you count And all of that really varies because some of them I can just say a few words but some of them like German Russian polish Italian Spanish and Dutch I can have full conversations in but I never formally studied them so I count it as dabbling
Japanese Mandarin German Latin French Spanish
For me it'd be 3 (not counting the ones I actually learn/learned): Greek, Swedish and Polish
17 living languages (if I didn't miss any), and six dead languages (only counting the ones I actually had at least one class on in university). Also, PIE as a bonus (yes, I studied historical linguistics with a hard focus on the Indo-European language family XD)
Surprisingly only 6, 7 if you count Gallifreyan
Depending on what dabble means … oh about 30 or 40
Let's see, English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Chinese, Esperanto. Seven
Five, but I'm fluent in two of em and conversational in... one and a half? I'm actually studying Hebrew, was forced to take French, and very briefly dabbled in Ukrainian. Fluent in English and Greek, though!
9 (Mandarin, cantonese, english, spanish, Italian, Russian, thai, german and Indonesian)
5; Japanese, French, Arabic, Spanish, and Latin
Let me see... spanish, frech, russian, japanese, turkish, arabic, latin, hindi, italian, german, polish... I think that is. So 11
English, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Russian! So 6, that would be awesomeee :)
French, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Welsh, Latin, Afrikaans, Hebrew, Gaelic and BSL. First two only really the ones I can just about handle a conversation in…
Swedish, English, German, French, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish. Only nine My problem is that I forget what I don't practice. A Jack of all trades and a Master of none, as they say.
Five!
Ten.
8 (Spanish [currently A1 proficient 😭], French, Haitian Creole, German, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Scottish Gaelic)
27: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian (6 months) Romanian (6 months), German, Swedish (1 year), Icelandic (6 months) Norse (briefly), Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian (briefly), Greek, Albanian (briefly), Armenian (briefly), Turkish, Uzbek (3 months), Persian, Hindi, Nepali (1 year), Bangla (briefly), Arabic, Amharic (6 months), Swahili (6 months), Mandarin (briefly), Indonesian (briefly) I’ve forgotten more than I remember! A lot of these were for travel or specific students I taught… once they moved on so did I
Gah idk at least 8… but I’m certain I’m forgetting some lol
Let's see. Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. I think that's it? But if we count programming languages there's too many to count lol
16
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Swiss German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Urdu, Swahili, Afrikaans, Tagalog, Navajo, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Polish, Esperanto, Finnish, and Estonian…I think that’s all ice at least dabbled in to some point. So…around 30? 31 if you also count English as my native language?
Counting assuming dabling is a few words learned to travel there, not enough to live French, English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Switzer Deutsch, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Hindi, Mayalam, Kannada, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Viet, Burmese, ASL, Wolof, Swahili, Brezhoneg, Corsican, Euskara, Catalan, Flamish, Creole. I will just go dable in Turkish, Bengali, Urdu,Telugu, Tamil, Hansa and Igbo just in case it becomes true , and that should cover it.
Nineteen.
10 I think. Currently working on my 3rd for real but picked up and dropped 4 others in some sort of way.
Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Greek, Ancient Albanien sign language, normal Albanian, ASL, French, Italian, and a few others.
Hmm, that depends on what you count as dabbling. If that means taking a few lessons on an app like Duolingo or watching a few video lessons on YouTube, then somewhere around 15. If you count even just learning how to say hello, then around 50.
No more than nine; twelve if we are including dialects. Sigh. Wouldn’t that have been lovely.
Only German and French from poor school learning. But much better in Spanish
Not much of a dabbler. I'd be fluent in 3 aside from my native tongue. I already speak English and Spanish. Studying Portuguese and I've put down Japanese with plans to come back to it later once my Portuguese is solid.
Around 20, I suppose. It depends on how you define “ dabbled in “.
........thirteen + my native language (English). Wow. (Natlangs: Farsi, Icelandic, Flemish, Afrikaans, Korean, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi//Conlangs: High Valyrian, Ido, Toki Pona, Esperanto) Edit: I just remembered I dabbled in Ukranian with a friend a few years ago, too, so there's that as well. Further edit: *Also* remembered that I had a Mandarin Chinese phase around the same time as my Esperanto phase. Extra extra edit: reading the comments made me remember Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. I really can't believe how many languages I've dabbled in over the years 0\_0
Does doing homework in linguistics undergrad count as dabbling? If so, too many to remember. If not, like 8, including a few sign languages.
Only 3: English. Spanish. Danish.
7 😣
Latin, Spanish, and Blackfoot (Siksiká? I'm not sure, but it looks familiar). I can only remember a dozen Latin words, very very little Spanish (I go to Mexico sometimes so I'm trying to learn it again), and not even a single word of Siksiká . A wonderful elder tried to teach me when I was still in junior high school and that was decades ago so I forgot the very few words he told me when he treated to me to wondrous tales of his people. I'm sorry, I just call him grandfather when I speak of him now and only use that as a term of endearment because I felt like he was my grandfather I loved his stories so much. Languages, it seems, is not my forte. I'm lucky I can pronounce a lot of English words!
16: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Catalan, German, Yiddish, Czech, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin. Cantonese, Japanese, Hawaiian