Number Challenge

Submitted by aestheticdirt on May 17, 2026
Hello,

Question inspired by a conversation at work: how many languages can you count to ten in without googling or messing up? (Don’t even need to be fluent, literally just able to count from one to ten)

I’ll start:

- English

- French

- Spanish

- German

- Albanian

- Turkish

- Japanese

- Latin

Used to know esperanto, greek and mandarin at one point but forgot

33 Comments
+10
Level 72
May 17, 2026
English and Espanol
+1
Level 62
May 17, 2026
Same
+1
Level 46
May 17, 2026
Same
+3
Level 59
May 17, 2026
English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Mandarin
+4
Level 56
May 17, 2026
English, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Spanish
+3
Level 92
May 17, 2026
-English

-Espanol

-Francois

+2
Level 62
May 17, 2026
English and Spanish. I used to know how to do it in Korean but now I only know how to say 10 in Korean lol
+2
Level 53
May 17, 2026
English, Spanish, and Japanese.

I'm fluid on the first two, and I'm still learning Japanese.

+2
Level 62
May 17, 2026
English and French.
+2
Level 58
May 17, 2026
Swedish, English, German and Spanish
+2
Level 50
May 17, 2026
English, Bangla, Japanese, Latin
+2
Level 65
May 17, 2026
English, Indonesian/Malay, Italian
+2
Level 54
May 17, 2026
English and German
+2
Level 76
May 17, 2026
English, Spanish, French, and Chinese
+3
Level 71
May 17, 2026
English, German, Mandarin, Cantonese (they count, right? As they are dialects...)
+3
Level 53
May 18, 2026
I don’t see why not if they’re as different as they are
+2
Level 39
May 17, 2026
English, Spanish and Hindi, used to know Mandarin but I forgot it
+2
Level 54
May 17, 2026
English Urdu Arabic Persian pashto
+5
Level 78
May 18, 2026
English, German, French, Italian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Estonian. I've spent some time travelling through Europe on my own over the last few years.
+1
Level 71
May 18, 2026
Wow
+1
Level 53
May 18, 2026
Geedang!
+1
Level 53
May 18, 2026
I’ve always admired people across europe’s ability to learn so many languages, specifically every person I’ve met from either the netherlands or one of the former yugoslav countries speaks at least four or five different languages conversationally. Here we don’t start teaching kids different languages until like 11 or 12 and only require a few years in schools, as a result it just doesn’t stick with people.
+2
Level 78
May 18, 2026
Well, here in Croatia we started learning first (mandatory) and second (elective) foreign language at 10 (mostly English and German or Italian, French is taught in some schools), and nowadays kids start learning one mandatory language at 7.

Mind you, speaking one Slavic language as a native means you can learn how to count in several other Slavic languages pretty fast, Polish being the exception as they 'distort' common Slavic roots in their own way.

Also, many people, especially older, that work in public services in many European countries still don't speak English, so you need to learn some basic phrases if you go there alone and pray they won't ask you too many subquestions.

+4
Level 57
May 18, 2026
Engolsh, Feench, Spinach, Germanium, Mandatorin, Italic, and Duck
+5
Level 71
May 18, 2026
Quack

Quaack

Quack quack

Quacck

Quuaaacck

Quackity

Quackity quack

Quackk

Quaack quaack

QQQQUUUUAAACCCKKK

+5
Level 57
May 18, 2026
Spinach makes you stronger
+2
Level 71
May 18, 2026
Wow I didn't expect you to notice the italics...
+1
Level 57
May 18, 2026
Noto tutto...
+1
Level 53
May 18, 2026
no speak duck only czichen
+2
Level 78
May 18, 2026
English, French, Slovak, Japanese
+2
Level 68
May 18, 2026
Literally just English and Spanish. I'll try learning Dutch, Filipino, German, and Japanese though.
+2
Level 81
May 18, 2026
English, French, German, Italian,
+2
Level 80
May 18, 2026
English, French,Russian, Hindi, Marathi,