The EU is a cultural and linguistic melting pot made up of 28 countries with even more traditions and languages. Officially, only 24 languages are recognised for the purpose of diplomatic exchanges, excluding minority languages such as Welsh, Luxembourgish and Catalan, as these people also speak a language already recognised – in the aforementioned cases, English, German and French, and Spanish.

While the exact number of polyglot speakers around the world is unknown, a 2012 study conducted on behalf of…

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