Asked number of languages I speak as a linguist. We are required only one, native. Polyglots are the naturals, and they can be rare and fascinating to watch as I saw with Richard Ishida at W3C amazing, and Charo (who knew?) blew my mind live. Seen any or are you one? Tell, tell!

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I am one. I speak English, French, Russian, Spanish, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Polish, Manx Gaelic. I want to learn several more.
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Amazing! Does it come naturally, with ease? Not for me. English and Spanish fluency, Ladino w/o speech as who speaks it? Lots of spoken Yiddish. I can read and write Hebrew with or without vowels. Lost meaning with time. Reading comprehension mostly w germanic/latin rooted langs.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
I used to speak German, but fell out of it. Then studied French for many years, but lack practice. A bit of Russian and Spanish, too. Learning ASL now.
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I've always wanted to learn ASL and we have a wonderful School here in Arizona so a lot of Deaf culture as well as blind and vision students that I had in my classes when I was teaching assistant in college. I learned a little I can finger spell. I want to learn more. Cool!
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