Okay, fine. Depending on your life circumstances, becoming trilingual is possible. But is it really possible to be a polyglot? My impression is that when it comes to a fourth language or more, people can usually only handle basic things like self-introductions. And then the native speaker reacts like their eyes are popping out of their head but the moment the conversation speeds up a little, they can’t follow anymore.
>>219790315I am part of the 4% elite.
Seems BS if Norway is people claiming they speak Swedish. Norwegian/Swedish is just people winging it in both directions since they're so similar.
>>219790450It's Nynorsk/bokmål and english
>>219790488Some kind of exotic counting going on at least
>>219790315try 5 languages
Remember that catalan is considered "a language" in Spain so the percentage of people ACTUALLY speaking 3 languages is bordering 0%
>>219790315>those scandi numbersI can also speak my local dialect, standard German, and english, does that make me trilingual?
As long as you are exposed to at least 2 languages at a very young age you will have a better time learning new languages. My mom knows 5 different languages and currently working to the 6th (Mandarin)>t.grew up speaking 3 languages at home and currently speak 4.
>>219790800Is this excluding English? Because it's hard to believe that 40% of french people and 45% of spanish people can't speak English.Can't even blame boomers, since it's the 25-64 age bracket only.
>>219790315>speak 3 languages excluding regional ones at C1 level>have 2 STEM bachelor's and 1 master's degree>fail to get into the second round of job interviews for a fucking internship
>>219791140Wtf are you applying for internships for if you have 3 degrees already, youre supposed to do that during your studies
>>219790800The other 35 speak indian btw
>>219790450Yeah this is nonsense norwegians know 2 languages, full stop. Theres some bullshitting going on here
>>219790488>we arbitrarily decided these two dialects are different languages so now we're trilingual
>>219790406English, Arabic and Tamazight?
>>219790488Those are differences in writing not even dialects
>>219790315I don't think knowing 4 languages here is that uncommon since everybody learns Finnish, Swedish and English by default and many people study German, French or Russian in addition. How well the languages stick is another matter but there has to be some percentage that keeps them all.
