Up to how many languages can a human being learn?
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The mind is an awesome treasure chest just waiting to be filled - I have heard of people who could speak as many as 9 to 13 languages fluently - I have spoken personally to one man who could speak 7.
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It depends on how you separate languages from dialects.  There are many different counts, but the range is between 4000 and 8000.  A number of 6000 is probably about right for most purposes.  If there were 6 people in the world and each spoke 1000 languages, one person would live in the Americas, one person would live in Europe and Asia, two people would live in Africa, one person would live on all the islands of Asia and the Pacific, and one person would live on the island of New Guinea.\n\nEDIT:  Ethnologue is a good source for some regions of the world, but not so good for others.  The best thing to say about the "number" in Ethnologue is "Ethnologue lists 6,912 languages", but even Ethnologue does not claim to be exhaustive and does not claim that its number is accurate.  Indeed, for some varieties, Ethnologue lists only one language, where most linguists list two, and for some languages, Ethnologue lists multiple varieties as if they were different languages.
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Most Widely Spoken Languages \nin the World/Language Approx. number of speakers \n\n 1. Chinese (Mandarin) 1,075,000,000 \n 2. English 514,000,000 \n 3. Hindustani 496,000,000 \n 4. Spanish 425,000,000 \n 5. Russian 275,000,000 \n 6. Arabic 256,000,000 \n 7. Bengali 215,000,000 \n 8. Portuguese 194,000,000 \n 9. Malay-Indonesian 176,000,000 \n10. French 129,000,000
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i dont think it is possible to count the amount of languages in the world because there are so many and also so many dialects.  mine is english
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Most informed lists include between 4000 and 8000 languages.  6000 seems to be about the average.  If you took those languages and divided them equally among 6 people, one of them would live in the Americas, one of them would live in Europe and Asia combined, two of them would live in Africa, one of them would live on the island of New Guinea, and the other one would live on all the other islands of the Pacific and Asia.
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i can speak 7 languages and understadn more than 10..i learnt them cuz i love learning new languages..its so much fulfulling to able to understand so many languages..its intoxicatin really
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One authoritative source that has collected data from all over the world, The Ethnologue, listed the total number of current languages in the world as 6809 (1).  These languages have come from about 20 “proto-langauges.” A “protolanguage” is simply:  a ”recorded ancestral language.”\n\nBased on the criteria of your question the answer is:\n\nAramaic\n\nAramaic is one of the world's oldest languages.  Last year, Aramaic was heard by large audiences in the film "Passion of the Christ", which portrayed the last 12 hours of Christ’s life.  Today this ancient language is spoken by around 15,000 people and is in danger of dying out.\nAramaic precedes Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Sanskrit and is also older then the “proto-language” from which Chinese originated.
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approximately 62 languages
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I don't think anyone knows for sure.  Many thousands.  For example the Inuktitut language (of northern peoples formerly called Eskimo) might be counted as one language.  However, there are several different versions - at least three in Canada, Alaska is probsbly different again, Greenland different again, etc.  At best there are estimates about the number of languages.
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It's going to depend on which languages you want to learn.  If the languages you want to learn are European in origin, I have a suggestion.  \n\nWhen I was in High School, I wanted to take a foreign language course, and I had to choose between Spanish and French. I chose Spanish, but for various reasons, I failed it. For the next 24 years I was under the impression that I couldn't learn a second language.\n\nThen when my daughter was taking Spanish in High School, I found that I still remembered quite a bit of it, and began to rethink my impression about my linguistic ability.\n\nOne day I read that Esperanto was the easiest language on earth to learn. I began learning it as an experiment to see if I really could learn a foreign language. Now I'm fluent at it, and have gone on to learn Spanish (I finished the 3 Pimsleur's Spanish courses in 1 year), and moved on to German. Later I learned a little Polish (to take a business trip to Poland) and studied Mandarin Chinese (just because a friend told me about the free course work on chinesepod.com).\n\nKnowing Esperanto first, helped greatly in my other linguistic experiences, but the thing that surprised me the most was that there is a culture around Esperanto that is alive and vibrant, with Music and Literature (both translated and original). Esperanto is my favorite of all the languages, and the easiest to learn of all my language experiences.\n\nPope John Paul II has called Esperanto the "New Latin".  \n\nThis article on Wikipedia is a very interesting article about the benefits of learning Esperanto before other languages.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto
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Could be very easy ; if you do that :\n1- learn it as quickly as possibe ( I mean age ) .\n2- Go learn it in the country of the language . ( lonely ) .\n3- read newspaper ; daily .\n4- watch Tv .\n5- talk with people ; all times ( No shame ) .\nBut you must know that a language depend on 2 things :\n1-Skill 2-love .
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Language Acquisition is not an easy process. Learning a new language is easy if the new language is from the same linguistic family, but learning English is going to be difficult if the first language of the speaker is Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi or even Arabic. But if the learner is introduced to a new language in the childhood then things are better, you won't be able to learn a language in 2 months, learning a language is not a joke. You might be able understand and speak few words but proficiency is not possible.
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Hello,\n\n~~~~i am 22 years old and i speak 8 languages and learning more as well. I know someone aged 30 speaks 33 languages so it just depends ~~~~~~
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ANSWER: Although a language can be defined as differently from one person to the next, SIL International, the pre-eminent source for the catalogue of languages around the world, claim there are 6,912 known languages.\n\nEDIT: Posted wrong link, this is correct\n\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp
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Yes if you can speak other foreign languages.
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the BEST language to learn \nis the language that you WANT to learn...\n\nuseful languages: french, spanish, german\n\ninteresting languages: chinese, hindi, arabic
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How many times are you going to ask this question?  Learn the language.