Whats the most languages that one person has ever know?
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Yes, spanish is very easy to learn and to talk\n\nJuan Pablo II\n\nHe was an extraordinary polyglot, He had a good command of polish, clasic greek, latin, italian, french, spanish, portuguese, english and german. He had enough knowledge of czech, lituanian, russian, hungarian as well. He also had some knowledge of japones, tagalo and several african languages.\n\nFue un extraordinario políglota, ya que no sólo llegó a dominar el polaco, griego clásico, latín, italiano, francés, español, portugués, inglés y alemán, sino que también tuvo suficientes conocimientos del checo, lituano, ruso y húngaro, además tenía conocimientos de japonés, tagalo y varias lenguas africanas.
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Merhaba , Hola , Salut , Hello\n\ni know 4 languages ..\n\nmother tongue arabic \n\nand teaching french \n\nand spanish \n\nand the 4th got it ...:)\n\nback to my answers and u will know i speak thes 4 languages ..:)\n\nSalam , adios , aurevoir , bye
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The average adult knows anywhere from 40-50,000 words. I doubt anyone could learn to speak a foreign language better than a native without having lived there. You can't grasp all the nuances of a language without being immersed in their culture.
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probably the pope that just died, he went to the most countries out of any other pope so I would guess he knows a lot of languages
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Any language spoken by Man.
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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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Well, I agree that Chinese and Japanese (along with other languages that use only characters to represent an entire word) would be the most difficult. \n\nHowever, speaking only of languages that use alphabets, I would say Russian and English. English because modern speakers constantly use figurative language, and we have more homonyms and homographs than any other language I have known. Russian, because it has even more letters than the English alphabet, and there are very many rules that modify entire words based on their gender, despite the absence of articles (i.e., a, an, or the).
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Most people outside of America speaks more than 1 language. Personally, I speak, read, and write 4 different languages.
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Esperanto  (I speak English, Esperanto, Spanish, and German.  I've also studied Polish and Mandarin) Esperanto was far easier to learn than any of the others, and it opened the world to me. I've had conversations with people from every continent, and every country, and I only had to learn the easiest language on earth to do so.\n\nYou might ask, why is Esperanto easier to learn than any of the other languages? It's because it is a language designed to be simple to learn. Most of the time spent studying a foreign language is spent learning the irregularities and rule exceptions ("I before E except after C", " 'sheep' is both singular and plural", etc). Esperanto has only 16 gramatical rules, and no exceptions to any of the rules.\n\nAnd before you ask, yes you can travel with Esperanto. Read this article in Wikipedia about the Esperanto "Pasporta Servo" (Pasport Service)\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasporta_Servo\n\n\nI don't have a least favorie, so far I haven't found a language I didn't want to learn.
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english is the hardest language because there are all kinds of different types of words but in my opinion spanish is the easiest language to learn.
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Portuguese\n\nPlus, that info about French above. Not true.\n\n1 - Mandarin\n2 - Spanish\n3 - English\n4 - Hindi\n5 - Arabic
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Most Widely Spoken Languages\nin the World\nLanguageApprox. number\nof speakers\n 1. Chinese (Mandarin)1,075,000,000\n 2. English514,000,000\n 3. Hindustani496,000,000\n 4. Spanish425,000,000\n 5. Russian275,000,000\n 6. Arabic256,000,000\n 7. Bengali215,000,000\n 8. Portuguese194,000,000\n 9. Malay-Indonesian176,000,000\n10. French129,000,000
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There would probably be three official languages: English, Spanish, and Chinese.  I believe they are the most-spoken languages on the planet.  I could be wrong, though.
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4 languages ...\n\narabic , french , spanish and english ..\n\nim from Jordan
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Judging by most of the questions and answers on this site, the easiest second language would have to be English.  I don't quite know what their first one was.
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As far as sheer numbers, Mandarin by a long shot. The number in parenthesis are the total number of speakers (native and secondary).\n\n   1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)\n   2. English (480 million)\n   3. Spanish (320 million)\n   4. Russian (285 million)\n   5. French (265 million)\n   6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)\n   7. Arabic (221 million)\n   8. Portuguese (188 million)\n   9. Bengali (185 million)\n  10. Japanese (133 million)\n  11. German (109 million)
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I've heard kasparov speaks seven languages... also the pope should speak 5 or 6 including latin and greek..\nThe most famous hyper-polyglot was probably Giuseppe Mezzofanti, a 19th century Italian Cardinal, who was reputed to speak 72 languages.