Are you a polyglot?

not 100% proficient in everything but, yeah

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t, but then it’s easier to do things at times.

Yas
(2 launguages, not counting programming ones)

i guess no, i always found that word weird.

german as mother tongue is somewhat understandeable, my english is good enough to order french fries i guess..but after that it gets dark quickly..i can read swedish but speaking or rather listening is thin, spanish and portuguese are still not understood well despite having spend months in brazil and dont get me started on french which i had for like 5 years in school

Yup
(Two languages and some stuff here and there from quite a few more)

@Jilano without gtranslate i would guess

"what sauce do you want on your frites?"

(sidenote: one can download offline dictionaries for gtranslate on the phone)

@BurnoutDV 'frite' is English? I though it was French fries

I speak 4 languages (German, English, Spanish and Arabic) with German as my mother tongue

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Nelson Mandela

wait 2 languages makes you already a polyglot?

by this logic every non english native who managed to learn the most common language on the world is a polyglot

did i live in a lie my whole life?

@webdev no, I think you're a polyglot if you speak 3 or more languages at a pretty high level (fluently).

@Jakuho it is, i simply misstyped, which is weird cause i wrote it right 2 sentences ago

@Jilano well romanic languages have some similarities

@webdev so mandarin?

I'm French, English is (obviously) not my native language, but as a developer I'd say having a good understanding of English is a must

Yes, though mostly technical.

As for "natural languages": Fluent in English and my own tiny language, and conversational in Spanish and Japanese. I've picked up bits of Gaelic (Irish), Latin, and I'm passable at reading (but not speaking or writing) French.

Depends on what level I need to have.

Ik kan Nederlands praten
I can talk in English
Ek kan praat Afrikaan
Ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch

C# I’m pretty bitching in, but not god tier.
F# I’m ok with
HTML I just about manage
JavaScript I can fumble my way through, but I literally want to murder everyone involved in making it
Java I won’t touch with a barge pole
CSS makes me want to literally cry and then commit genocide.

@CoffeeNcode A lot of places online, basically anywhere that teaches it.

I wanted to go to a Gaelic-only university in Ireland where they place you in Gaelic-only speaking households, but my parents never went for that ☹

I'm still really sad about it.

@BurnoutDV i'm confused, why would you think that :)

i'm Hungarian, but because the borders were moving, i was born, raised and living in Slovakia so i know Slovak. Slovak and Czech is really similar so I kinda talk Czech too i guess. Since i was 6 we had cartoon network so i learned English there and in the schools everybody learn German and/or English. But I forgot German since i don't use it. Aber ich hat die Abitur gemacht in Deutch. I don't even know if thats gramatically correct.

anyway, my point is I know 3 (I don't count Czech, cause they are really similar with Slovak), talk another one on some level, but i don't consider myself a polyglot, since I needed those languages. Polyglot learns, talks in other languages because he wanted to learn them. (actually one sentence in the wiki for polyglot supports this)

@webdev the word you wrote in German are correct but the sentence structure is wrong. You should better write Ich habe mein Abitur auf Deutsch gemacht.

@webdev iirc mandarin or Cantonese is the most common mother tongue on the world,, not English, in overall use it might be English