Polyglot Meme

The question most often asked when people find out you’ve dabbled in linguistics is “How many languages do you speak?” Well, I’ve studied quite a few languages, but there are only a couple I’d be comfortable jumping in blind right now.

James McGrath has started a meme that widens the net a bit:

List every language that [you] have made some sort of concerted effort to learn, even if [you] didn’t get beyond the first lesson or so, or even if [you] are still learning it. No need to specify the degree of fluency in the blog post – if readers are curious how much Swahili you know, they can ask.

Here’s my list, in no order whatsoever: