Is it possible to know 4 languages fluently?

A person who can speak four or more languages is multilingual. Only three percent of people around the world can speak over four languages. If someone is fluent in more than five languages, the person is called a polyglot.

How many words of a language do you need to know to be fluent?

Those who know 1,000 to 3,000 words can carry on everyday conversations. Knowing 4,000 to 10,000 words makes people advanced language users while knowing more than 10,000 words puts them at the fluent or native-speaker levels.

Does speaking 4 languages make me a polyglot?

If you can speak two languages, you’re bilingual; three and you’re trilingual. If you speak even more than three, you might be known as a polyglot.

How many words do you know in your first language?

Typically native speakers know 15,000 to 20,000 word families – or lemmas – in their first language. Word family/lemma is a root word and all its inflections, for example: run, running, ran; blue, bluer, bluest, blueish, etc. So does someone who can hold a decent conversation in a second language know 15,000 to 20,000 words?

What percentage of the words in a sentence should you know?

Nevertheless, most of the time, by knowing 90 to 95\% of the words in a sentence, and by being provided with sufficient context, you should have very few problems understanding and communicating in the language, especially if you are learning a language that is part of the same language family as that of your mother tongue.

How many words can a native speaker know?

He discovered that it is incredibly difficult for a language learner to ever know as many words as a native speaker. Typically native speakers know 15,000 to 20,000 word families – or lemmas – in their first language. Word family/lemma is a root word and all its inflections, for example: run, running, ran; blue, bluer, bluest, blueish, etc.

How many words do you need to learn to speak English?

Linguists Paul Nation and John Read (who doesn’t love a bit of nominative determinism?), along with their colleague Robin Goulden, came up with a test involving only 50 words. Their theory is that if you count up how many of the 50 words you understand and multiply the total by 500 you are able to estimate your total English vocabulary.