I can confidently say that I speak Portuguese, Spanish, and English to varying degrees. However, at a beginner level, I know Norwegian, Italian, and Polish. I also am probably at a very beginner level in Russian and French, both of which I’m learning and getting better at. I’m conversing with French people.
My fiancé says I’m a polyglot, but I don’t know if I’m just trilingual or not.
A polyglot is anyone who speaks way more languages than you feel comfortable with. /j
And the amount of languages grows by one each time I learn a new one
Only people who speak more languages or that feel like their intellect is somehow under threat by you claiming the title will try to gatekeep you from using it, so don’t worry.
Edit: Also, you’re not a polyglot because that would make me look bad. Have a nice day.
Thank you!!
Poly, many Glot, tongue
If you know two, then you’re polyglot.
IIRC it starts at 4 so you definitely make the cut. I’m jelly! 🤷😅
I speak 4 too with English, French, Portuguese and Spanish
Well, I’m jealous of you too, then! 😅
What languages do you speak??
Il me manque juste le portugais… mais j’écoute beaucoup de bossa alors j’y suis presque! 😅
I think the title of polyglot is just silly. I speak 4 languages fluently but I would never introduce myself as a polyglot.
You would be if Europe was the entire world.
Polyglot isn’t define by area lol
I guess it’s not the official definition.
My definition of a polyglot would be someone who can travel around the world and converse with people everywhere.
op would be conversational with a significant part of the world, and they’re not to blame for colonialism. just by learning spanish, english and portuguese they would be able to talk to anyone south of rio grande in the u.s., and talk to some former british colonies in africa and asia. put some russian and french and you would be left with just perhaps middle east, east and southeast asia.
knowing that and learning some arabic and chinese (throw in some language of some east or southeast asian country if they want) and there’s not much left, but to discuss how colonialism brought the world to this situation.
Most countries speak English so no need for all the fluff in that case. Spanish and French are the next most relevant. The rest is very much euro-centric.
My biggest gripe is that all Euro languages have a shared Latin and Greek origin so OP’s not really branching out to entirely different language systems.
i understand your side, but that’s up to op. personally for me i was thinking about learning a native local language, perhaps tupi or nheengatu, and one from the african diaspora such as yoruba, kimbundu or kikongo. but that’s on me, and that’s on op too, regardless of what we think. it’s not a particularly picky topic in my opinion.
What do you mean by all Euro languges having a shared Latin and Greek origin?
I’m no expert/linguist, but I thought Germanic, Slavic, Romance (Latin) and Uralic were completely separate branches of the Indo-European language tree, having very little to do with eachother.
Cheers
I was moreso referring to their alphabet and pronounciations but a lot of them such as German have a hefty amount of Latin terms which got incorporated. I doubt many Germans these days would understand original Germanic.
They do have their own roots but you get a head start in Europe by pronouncing Latin words in whatever regional accent is availble. Polish and Norwegian likely less but OP is still at a beginner level for those.
But for example adding Japanese, Chinese or Arabic adds a whole new alphabet and experience where there is virtually no Latin base to start from
Jak będziesz umiał przeczytać to zdanie, zrozumieć i odpowiedzieć bez problemu, to myślę, że spokojnie możesz nazywać się poliglotą. Język polski jest trudny, nawet dla rodzimych Polakow.
Dzięki! Jestem początkująca więc mogę przeczytać większość z tego. Lepiej mówię po francusku 😅
Kocham twój język!
Je pense que ça compte même si tu ne maîtrise pas parfaitement toutes les langues.
Merci !! Mon fiancé m’a dit que ça compte aussi et que je parle français. Ça aide que j’ai compris la majorité de ce que vous avez dit et que parle l’espagnol et le portugais.
Mon ascendance est français :)
Ok si tu a rédigé ce message tout seul ton français est très bon
(petit conseil, ça se fait generalement plus de tutoyer sur les forums, plutôt que vouvoyer)
J’ai écrit la majorité sauf pour les mots que j’ai oublié. Et ok, je ne savais pas :)
petit conseil, ça se fait generalement plus de tutoyer sur les forums, plutôt que vouvoyer
Oui. Je vis en France et les forums sont d’un contexte plus informel. On est tous amis 😊 !
Just how often does the topic of what languaes you know come uo that you really must think about this?
Since they speak multiple languages, they probably spend quite a lot of time thinking about the subtle differences in meaning between words, so the precise meaning of the word “polyglot” no doubt matters quite a lot to them.
Honestly, if you can have a conversation with other language you’re already a polyglot. Going from 1 to 2 is harder than 2 to >3
