What do you call someone who speaks one language? American.
Ahahahahaha - this is so true.
I speak native of fairly well: Dutch, English, Spanish
I speak 'holiday proof': French, German
I can deduct a lot of Italian (thanks to Spanish) and Swedish and probably a few other languages I don't think about right now. I feel blessed to be able to navigate the world a bit easier thanks to this - I wouldn't want to have it otherwise.
When I learned the Cyrillic Alphabet it was fun to travel through Russia and 'spell' the Cyrillic letters and realize everything comes from English :D Then I crossed the border to Mongolia and I could still spell Cyrillic but there was NO word that I could recognize, apparently they have no such influence over there.
Speaking/reading languages makes the world a whole lot more interesting :-)
It turned out that I could understand written Dutch fairly well
This surprised me at first but then I realized I have the same even with languages I don't speak perfectly - I can still understand other languages better due to it (see the Italian thanks to Spanish).
That's so much talent in one man. The gift of different languages wow! We can call it the gift to speak in tongues perhaps! 😊