There are increase numbers of people claiming they speak many languages, English and Spanish, German and Dannish, Italian and Portuguese. The title of multilinguist often rests on mostly being within the relatively similar Indo European or connected language tree.(TL)
Many confuse the idea of languages as being equally challenging, since they are all seperate languages, but if you look over to other places, where some regional "dialects" have much higher lextic, grammatical, and pronunciation differences than between languages. Such as Cantonese vs Mandarin Chinese, compared to Spanish vs English. The challenges between learning Arabic/Mandarin/Korean etc as English speaker is much greater than learning French or Spanish. When someone say they know "5" languages, the actual difficulty drastically varies. Cognitive and linguistic wise. Not even accounting for the actual comprehension level of the claimed languages. Most still default to knowing more tongues as always more challenging than fewer. Which is very shallow and clearly not the case.
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