What is the normal amount of languages to speak?

[junshuase]

I'm honestly so confused. I know alot of people from my school that can speak at least 3-4 languages. But outside of my school most people only speak 1 language? My school isn't anything special so I don't know. How many languages do you speak? I need to know to ease my mind please

 

[Xave]

1-2 i think is pretty normal

 

[kelwford]

I only really speak English, but I can mostly understand and sort of speak Afrikaans too (a language in South Africa) I would love to be able to speak more languages though!

 

[momoland._.jooe]

I can speak 5 slavic, English, Korean, a little Chinese, Ge'ez (still learning), Italian, French, Russian, a little Polish, some Arabic, trying Japanese, a tiny bit of Thai, Spanish, and a kind of Greek...

 

[momoland._.jooe]

I can speak 5 Slavic languages, English, Korean, a little Chinese, Ge'ez (still learning), Italian, French, Russian, a little Polish, some Arabic, trying Japanese, a tiny bit of Thai, Spanish, and kind of Greek...

 

[Eunbi]

Id say 2 languages. English being one of them.

 

[peachon]

Usually 1/2 including English. Lots of people in my school speak a European language like Spanish or German

 

[momoland._.jooe]

In my school, a lot of them spoke Arabic

 

[peachon]

In my school, a lot of them spoke Arabic

Really! I don’t know anyone who speaks Arabic!

 

[renspace]

I'd say 2 or 3. I speak 2 fluently.

 

[Hwa_ChaeMing]

English and French and I’m learning Spanish and Japanese

 

[moonlight]

There isn't rlly a normal number
Learn as many as u want

 

[LostInTheDream]

one....

 

[OppaIsTrash]

i think the "normal" amount of languages to know depends on where you are.

where i live, its "normal" i guess to know 2: spanish (primary languague) and english (taught at most schools to varying degrees of fluency). at my university, for humanities degrees you're required to at least be at intermediate fluency in a third language.

i know in some other countries it might be normal to know more languages than that; from what i understand i think in india on average people may speak 3 or more languages. in other places it might be normal to just know one. there's other factors too, for instance, people from immigrant backgrounds will speak their "mother tongue" and the language of their host country, which may be more than one for either of them. etc.

personally, i speak 3: im fluent in spanish and english (i went to a school that really emphasized teaching english, although i didn't realize it until much later), and at roughly intermediate fluency in italian (im getting a bit rusty but i have to brush up for my fluency test for my master's degree). i hope to learn more; im planning on hitting the books again for korean this year.

don't worry too much about what is "normal"; everyone's gonna have different ideas about what's "normal".

 

[boo]

I’d say 1-2. Personally I only understand and speak one fluently which is English. However, I can understand Spanish very vaguely, like very. Enough to structure a sentence and speak it with a bad accent.

 

[BiasWreck]

I'm honestly so confused. I know alot of people from my school that can speak at least 3-4 languages. But outside of my school most people only speak 1 language? My school isn't anything special so I don't know. How many languages do you speak? I need to know to ease my mind please❣❣❣

I think most people only speak one, but quite a few speak two. I speak 3 (varying levels as I'm still learning) but I don't know too many other people who do that

 

[kobnlett]

I think it's good if u can speak 2 (especially english)
The least u can do is to speak ur contry's language
In Europe people usually speak 3 bcuz we start english classes at a pretty young age and we often learn another language from mid or high school

 

[𝕮𝖗𝖞_𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞]

i don't know if there is a normal amount of languages that you can speak so yeah. me personally i can speak 4 languages. malayalam and tamil (2Indian languages) japanese and english. but normal amount of languages vary depending on the person