# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/41 "2017-08-27T08:32:08Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I can’t say for certain about the past month but my cousin’s wife is from India. She mostly posts in English, but sometimes some of the comments on her posts are in what I assume is Hindi. > > I have a friend in France who usually posts in French, but he posts less than once a month. > > Then there’s the guy from Nepal who posts maybe 2 or 3 times a year in what I assume is some dialect of Tibetan. > > I’m on my phone so polling functionality doesn’t work. A correction: I’m not sure what caused my confusion, but obviously my friend from Nepal is likely speaking Nepalese, not Tibetan. ---
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/42 "2017-08-27T17:04:46Z")
Croatian Serbian\* English Italian. Occasional German, Spanish, Poruguese, French, Finnish. \*the number of Croatians who can read cyrillic script is decreasing, especially among youngsters. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/43 "2017-08-27T18:16:22Z")
English. There’s a possibility of Dutch, but I haven’t been on very often lately. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/44 "2017-08-27T22:28:05Z")
I voted 2 or 3, then started to actually notice. In the past two days, aside from English, German, and French, which I get all the time, I’ve had Greek, Hebrew, something that looked like Chinese characters with interlinear Vietnamese translation, and something I could not identify, maybe Hindi. That makes 8. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/45 "2017-08-27T22:32:33Z")
English, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Urdu. ---
**Author:** ![MareIt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@MareIt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MareIt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/46 "2017-08-27T22:38:37Z")
I selected 4-7, but as I typed this out I realized I have quite a few more than that… English (UK, USA & Canada A combination of native and second language speakers) French (mostly Quebecois but some ‘true’ French. A combination of native and second language speakers) Spanish (Native speakers from Venezuela & Mexico mostly some other South American countries show up from time to time. A combination of native and second language speakers) Japanese (All native Japanese. They rarely post in English, so I rely on Google translate for knowing what their kids are up to) Dutch (1 friend who grew up bilingual with lots of living Dutch family) Arabic (Native speakers - mostly to make a specific point or for religious holidays. ) Portuguese (1 friend who is Brazilian and grew up bilingual) Chinese (1 friend who is a Chinese historian, but decidedly American. My friend who is actually Chinese posts exclusively in English) Bulgarian (1 friend who is probably a 50/50 split for if he posts in English or Bulgarian) I also have a friend who is Liberian and sometimes posts in a Liberian patois, but I am not sure that counts as another language so much as a dialect. For some reason, I think that I’ve seen Swedish hit my feed recently as well as Hindi (or maybe it was Gujarati). I have a friend who is Thai, but I don’t think I’ve seen her post in Thai, but I’ve seen replies to her posts in Thai. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/47 "2017-08-27T22:44:57Z")
I didn’t actually go back and check for sure but I marked 5-7 and typically see in roughly descending order: English German Spanish French Vietnamese Chinese I’ll occasionally see some other stuff; I know an Uzbek guy who works in Qatar who drops the occasional Arabic or Uzbek. The very occasional Swahili repost from a friend’s friend. But that is all rare. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458/48 "2017-08-29T05:23:33Z")
English and Japanese all the time, Spanish pretty frequently. Occasionally Norwegian, German, Malay and Indonesian. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458.md?page=2)