Can Europeans Speak More Languages than North Americans?

[Dreadmaker]

Hey folks.

This poll stems from something a friend of mine asserted to me a while ago, and I'm not sure I believe him. In general, he said, European people, especially west Europeans, know more languages on average than North Americans do. I DO buy the concept behind it; there are a lot more languages floating around Europe than there are in North America (from an 'official language' point of view). However, I thought since we have such a large body of players here, it might be a good test sample

So, answer the above poll, and if you like, tell us which languages you know!

Being able to speak a language, for the purposes of this post, means being able to go to a country where that language is prominent and comfortably speak with locals/navigate around.

I personally am from Canada, and I know English, of course, but I'm currently in the process of learning German. And, contrary to popular belief, my French, though it is an official language, is worse than my German

 

[Panzer1509]

Danish and German

 

[lplkassm]

English, Romanian, Spanish, Italian, and I am currently learning German.

 

[NinjaWuuzoku]

English, Spanish, Korean and Japanese.

 

[DanJK]

English and french

 

[Tikeraaq]

Danish, english, german & French... ^^

 

[BlackBird.]

Dutch, English, and a bit German

 

[SoNotIsaac]

I am from Malaysia, I speak English mainly, Bahasa Malaysia (National Languge), Hokkien, abit of Japanese and currently learning Hakka and German

 

[Mr.SaJoRa]

German and English.

@dread: if you need help with german let me know ;P

 

[Jorzonator]

European and I speak Suomea, English, Svenska, Deutch
(that's Finnish, Swedish and German)

 

[BvB]

I'm from New Zealand, I speak English, Mandarin and Maori

YEAH. Bet you CC that no one else in this community can speak it.

 

[FoeFighter]

I can barely speak any German and English is really all I know...
does lolcats count as another language?

 

[Activate]

I'm from North America and can speak English and Mandarin. It's not the greatest but I can .

 

[Dreadmaker]

German and English.

@dread: if you need help with german let me know ;P

Perhaps when I know it a bit better, we can send some pms back and forth. More people to speak the language with is better

 

[Mobilize]

Well, I can speak Norwegian, Swedish, English, German (well, I can at least navigate around and order beer. I have a fun story for that too.) and a bit Spanish (though I was better at it in my early years.)

And of course, I'm from sweden.

 

[Mayhem Death]

I am from NA and I can speak English, Spanish, German, French, and learning Latin and Japanese.

 

[Vo0Do0]

English, Spanish, learning german and russian and arabic

 

[pickles]

English, French, Learning Spanish next year.

 

[iEye Captain]

It's more likely that this poll will show North Americans know more languages since eGO has more NA members.

 

[The Slayer]

i am from belgium: dutch, french and english