If you suddenly became proficient in every language you had ever dabbled in, how many languages would you speak?

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! 

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.

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

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. 😭

About 15. Lord have mercy.

English, french, Chinese, Italian, Dutch. Edit: and Spanish!

Tolkien’s elvish as well.

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

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 😭

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:

1. English

2. Latin

3. French

4. Spanish

Want to learn, can understand some already:

1. Italian

2. Portuguese

Find interesting and know a couple words / phrases:

1. Hungarian

2. Russian

3. Swedish

4. 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

1. 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

1. 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?

1. 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.

1. 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 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