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...you say in English.
Also for the record if you learn 3 romance languages that's the equivalent of like 2 normal ones because they're so similar. Fight me.
...and English is my fourth language. Then I had to take French in school, so five total.
This is Europe.
Did you remember your romance language similarity discount?
(Congrats on 5 though, that is neat)
German, English, Danish, Swedish, French, and the little bit of Japanese I remember from working there 20 years ago.
Are romance languages not normal?
What does normal mean in this context? There are many different languages in the world. Romance languages are all pretty similar, as are Germanic languages. English is a mix of Germanic and romantic languages, and very similar to both. Thus learning any romance or any Germanic language is fairly easy for someone who knows English. It is much more difficult to learn a language from a different family.
I think the guy I was responding to was just being a gatekeeping butthead tbh.