i speak english and spanish fluently.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness. Owing to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals' exposure to multiple languages is becoming increasingly frequent, thereby promoting a need to acquire additional languages. People who speak several languages are also called polyglots. Multilingual speakers have acquired and maintained at least one language during childhood, the so-called first language (L1). The first language (sometimes also referred to as the mother tongue) is acquired without formal education, by mechanisms heavily disputed. Children acquiring two languages in this way are called simultaneous bilinguals. Even in the case of simultaneous bilinguals, one language usually dominates the other. People who know more than one language have been reported to be more adept at language learning compared to monolinguals.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm bilingual! I can speak both English and Spanish."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think it is a great skill to have to speak more than one language.  It is called mulitlingualism and it is believed that there are more multilingual speaker in the world now than monolingual speakers."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hm, that's interesting. Living in America, you would think that most people are monolingual. I wonder where most bilingual speakers live."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Aparently more than half of all european cities claim to be multilingual."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's so cool. I've heard that bilingual people have different wiring in their brains compared to monolingual people. Makes me feel pretty special!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Also research says that multilingual people are much more adept and proficient at learning in general."}, {"role": "user", "content": "More people should be multilingual, if that's the case. I know that learning a new language is hard, but the benefits are overwhelming."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Definitely. Another name for people who speak more than one language i have just discovered is polygots.  i had never heard that word before.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've never heard of that word either. Interesting. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "But you are right though with the ease of information these days facilitated by the internet, we are exposed to multiple languages so it is promoting a need to get additional language skills."}]