And in Calabrian Greek, which is written with the Roman alphabet, ena, dio, tria, tessera, pende.
Sam the Sham only taught me to count to quatro.
I can count to any number I like in English, French, German (also Swiss and Belgian French). I think I got Danish 1-5, although I would have to check. And Latin. From doing crosswords, I could probably do Spanish. So maybe 6.
Six: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese.
The Russian I took in high school, which is a very long time ago now, so it took me a while to remember. Then I remembered a children’s song we learned in first year, which starts with counting one to five, and ends “bang, bang, oh oh oh, my rabbit is dead.” Cheerful little ditty.
English, Spanish, Mandarin, Latin, Klingon, Loglan.
I once knew them in Russian, Italian, Dutch and Classical Greek but have forgotten those.
Why am I not surprised that’s a Russian children’s song?
Me too. Except for speaking Portuguese, but I can read it a bit.
Three natural languages: English, German and Spanish
In math, I can do binary, base3, base4 and base5, and base6+.
But those probably don’t count.
My answer would be about average (for the SDMB) I think. Maybe 6?
English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Japanese.
English, French (and by tourist extension, Spanish & Italian), Russian and with a bit of effort Greek.
And Sheep (the last relic of Romano-British Cumbric?):
Yan
Tyan
Tethera
Methera
Pimp
Sethera
Lethera
Hovera
Dovera
Dick
Now I’m curious (but not curious enough to count) what language after English is most common in this thread. My guess would be Spanish or French.
When I was in grade school and high school French, Spanish, and German were offered as foreign language courses. I wonder if most folks here had a similar offering?
I was in high school from ‘79 to ‘83, and those were our choices (plus a compulsory year of Latin, as it was a Catholic school).
If one had scored well on the placement test, you could choose either French or German, and could take up to four years of it. If you had scored poorly on the test, you took one year of Spanish. I took French; in retrospect, even a single year of Spanish would have been far more useful to me, as an adult.
My high school offered Spanish, French, German, Russian, Latin, and Chinese. The year after I graduated, they added Japanese.
I took 4 years of Spanish and only 1 of Chinese. The Chinese program started my senior year. Through savings and generous donations from local oil companies (the school was in Tulsa) our teacher was able to take 6 of us to China in the summer of 1981 for 2 months. A local news crew followed us around for 2 weeks and made a documentary out of it. It even won a Peabody award.
Four. Used to be five. But it has been a long time since I took Karate. So Japanese numbers have slipped away.
Seven? English, Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Welsh, German. At one time, I could do Romanian and Korean, but I’ve forgotten both.
Let’s see:
English
Afrikaans
Dutch
German
Xhosa
French
Italian
Latin
Greek
Finnish
Japanese
Spanish
Portuguese
Hindi
and Discworld Troll. So my answer is Many Many Many, which is written “15”
I only speak 2 of those fluently, and 3 very, very badly.
For a serious answer, involving only languages spoken in daily lives by actual humans, I’m afraid that I can only do English and Spanish. Sesame Street stuck with me, but the French I took in middle school and the Latin I took in high school and college are more fleeting.
I do remember enough Latin that I can fake it, or other romance languages, pretty well, though.
English, Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi (all the same), French, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, Spanish, German, Korean, Sindhi. Catalan (was recently there, will forget in a few weeks)
3: English, Spanish, French.
OK, I could add binary too, if that’s considered a language.
I can also count to five in hexidecimal (base 16): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Nice to finally see Catalan on the list! So for me it is Spanish, Catalan, German, French, Italian, English, Russian, Portuguese. That must be about eleven or twelve, I guess. That is not including the innumeral ones I forgot.