I’ll claim 2. Mandarin Chinese at a fluent level, and Japanese at a basic level.
Chinese major at University, lived in China, Taiwan or Hong Kong for 20+ years, spouse is Chinese, kids born and raised in China for 5+ years…
Japanese about 2 years of study and lived in Tokyo for 2.5 years.
I studied French to fluency. Though I rarely use it nowadays, I have used it in the past in Quebec and France. I never had a problem being understood in either French-speaking land. And, when I find myself in Quebec again (as I will), it is nice to know that I can be understood in French.
I studied Russian to fluency also. Obviously, it plays no part in my day-to-day affairs (given my location), but I can still read Russian websites and news sources; and my interactions with local expat Russians tell me that I can still speak and converse in it. Interestingly, some have told me that I have a “Moscow accent,” when (as they claim) everybody knows that the educated Russian accent is a “St. Petersburg” one. I don’t care; it appears that I can still speak Russian fluently.
Then every non-Russian learning Russian is screwed, because the standard of the language used to teach foreigners is the Russian of Moscow 
I was going to say one, because I only speak one foreign language well enough to call myself fluent and work in that language. But after seeing some of the other responses I’ll say three. including French (basic) and Cantonese (almost non-existent).
I also speak some Spanish - can understand it very well but only speak enough to just about get by - but learnt that by immersion, not by studying it. Slovak I learnt a little of when living there but have forgotten nearly all of it. I would only ever list German on my CV.
Zero. I’ve studied English from birth, but still find myself struggling. Learning an additional language ain’t in the cards.
Taught myself to speak Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and Uzbek just by studying books & stuff. I’ve taught myself several more than I can read for comprehension but without so much in the way of conversational skills. My best language, written and spoken, is Arabic, which I started by taking a beginning class in, but subsequently self-taught.
Japanese - by moving here on a temporary basis then falling in love and deciding that I really had better go to school and learn the language properly. Of course lots of opportunities to practice and it MATTERS if you get things wrong when you are in the country whose language you are learning, so the impetus to remember is much stronger than book learning alone.
I now think in a mix of Japanese and English which is annoying when I got to England and actually have to think out a full sentence of just English.
Your poll is phrased really weirdly – it’s asking us how many of us speak a foreign language, not how many languages do we speak.
I speak two foreign languages I learned by studying: Italian (also learned by hearing it spoken at home in the US) and Russian.
I picked 2.
I can speak enough Spanish to get by traveling without a translator if necessary.
I also have learned enough Icelandic to speak like a mentally ill toddler.
I don’t see a difference :dubious: Either way I’d get similar responses.
If 800 of us speak a foreign language then that answer would be rather different to how many languages those individuals speak each.
But I want to know whether you studied any language, and you’re at advanced level or not.
For instance, I studied very little Russian. I studied enough to get by, without needing to switch to any other language, in Russia. But, I wouldn’t say I could speak Russian. I wouldn’t say I studied Russian, either. Because, the amount of time I dedicated to studying Russian was so little.
Is English your first language?
Does it look like so? I guess, far from it 
Do you really not understand the difference between the number of individuals who learn languages and the number of languages learned by a single given individual?
Est-ce qu’en vérité tu ne comprends pas la différence entre le nombre des individus qui apprennent des langues et le nombre des langues apprises par un seul individu donné?
I understand but I can’t explain to you the reason that I’d get the same thing that I have now. Yes, it’d be better if I’d used the other way.
lolwut?
No, it does not look like your first language, so I’m assuming English is the foreign language you learned by studying it.
Speak it well enough to get by I assume you mean. I don’t think anyone gets any degree of fluency if they are not immersed for a while.
German for me. Studied it for 1 yr in Jr. High, 2 years in HS, and a semester in college. 10 years later I traveled to Swizerland and Austria and was able to get by when I stepped off the airplane, but surely tested the patience of the natives.
Later I spent several months living in Vienna. After three months I was able to follow news broadcasts (albeit mentally exhausted after 15-20 minutes) and not piss off shop keepers as well as negotiate a good price. The living taught speed and vocabulary…the earlier book learning was an important foundation. (“oh, they are using a reflexive verb here…I see how that works!”)
German native speakers are pretty kind towards those who try to speak their own language. Yet, they get pissed off when you speak to them in English.
Tskmgr, these two sentences mean the same thing. Now you know. 