# How many languages appeared on your Facebook feed in the last month? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458 "2017-08-23T13:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/1 "2017-08-23T13:52:18Z")
I’ve recently become aware of how multilingual my Facebook friends are. I expect this is typical, given how easy travel and communications are these days. Let’s see how Dopers fare. Polling options will be attached momentarily. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/2 "2017-08-23T14:04:18Z")
I went back and counted for myself. I have eight languages in the past month. English – all the time, from many friends. Korean – all the time, from many friends. Spanish – frequently, several friends. One friend for each of these languages who post infrequently: Danish, French, Galego, German, Portuguese. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/3 "2017-08-23T14:20:39Z")
English French German Swedish Irish Arabic Spanish ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/4 "2017-08-23T16:44:32Z")
English Spanish French Japanese Filipino Java 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/5 "2017-08-23T18:42:08Z")
I think just English, Spanish, German, Dutch and Norwegian in the past month. I get the odd bit of French, Irish, Catalan, Welsh and Greek as well on occasion, but I’ve not noticed any lately. There’s a few people who will have posts with 3+ languages in the replies. Mostly the two Dutch guys I know. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/6 "2017-08-23T19:14:57Z")
English Spanish Japanese Korean Turkish ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/7 "2017-08-23T19:29:26Z")
English Spanish Hebrew ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/8 "2017-08-23T19:44:38Z")
English Spanish Khmer Tagalog French German ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/9 "2017-08-23T19:46:55Z")
English. I don’t get it. Why would other languages appear on my FB feed? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/10 "2017-08-23T19:50:27Z")
I would guess (is there a way to count?): English Italian Turkish Portuguese Polish Probably Spanish and French, though that’s just an odds game **Leaffan** like people commenting on things that you see. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/11 "2017-08-23T20:19:48Z")
Either 3 or 4, depending on whether you count Dutch and Afrikaans as different languages. Brazilian Portuguese Hindi Thai ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/12 "2017-08-23T20:34:12Z")
In estimated (decreasing) order of frequency: English Mandarin Greek Spanish Japanese French Korean ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/13 "2017-08-23T20:39:01Z")
Two, but ONLY because earlier in the month my cousin’s husband, who is Mexican, hopped on to her account and started ranting in Spanish. Every other day of every other year, it’s only English up in here. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/14 "2017-08-23T20:40:04Z")
English Arabic French Spanish German Hebrew > [@Leaffan](#): > > English. > > I don’t get it. Why would other languages appear on my FB feed? I have friends and family who do not speak English as their main language. They will often post and communicate in their primary language. Facebook is international, so it’s not surprising that people may use other languages. ---
**Author:** ![Hector\_St\_Clare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@Hector\_St\_Clare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hector_St_Clare)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/15 "2017-08-23T20:57:26Z")
English, Malagasy, Spanish, Mongolian, Russian, maybe Urdu (can’t remember) so five or six. If you count various foreign politicians I follow on FB then there’s a few more. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/16 "2017-08-23T22:23:56Z")
English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch, mostly. Though I’ve also gotten a little Russian, Arabic, and Hebrew. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/17 "2017-08-23T22:24:40Z")
I think only 3. English, Hungarian, and Dutch. Oh, wait, maybe I should have voted four. I’m sure there’s a Spanish in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/18 "2017-08-23T22:27:00Z")
> [@Scribble](#): > > English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch, mostly. Though I’ve also gotten a little Russian, Arabic, and Hebrew. > > Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk Oh, I forgot - also some French, a tiny bit of Japanese, and Hindi. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/19 "2017-08-23T22:29:19Z")
English French Khmer Vietnamese Mandarin Norwegian Thai ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/20 "2017-08-24T00:51:22Z")
English Hebrew Romanian Italian French Japanese Portuguese [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458.md?page=2)