Polyglot, not multilingual here. Mum and Grandmere spoke French around me, my Dad's side had Yiddish and Spanish, Hebrew for prayers on both sides. Everyone speaks English as well.
Maternal grandmother (English and German Jew) spoke rather disdainfully of Yiddish, and didn't use it, preferring French and Hebrew.
In high school, when I was taking French 3, I was paired with a Haitian classmate because I understood her speech and only the teacher understood her otherwise, not our other classmates. I can usually communicate with people, if I have even a base language in common. My teen taught themselves classical Greek to read Homer and history of Alexander the Great, and is learning Chinese for a favorite donghua, Heaven Official's Blessing.
We did use American Sign Language with the teen as a baby, on top of the other household languages.
Sometimes I like not understanding why (mostly American) people are proud of only speaking one language...
I'm a polyglot
Maternal grandmother (English and German Jew) spoke rather disdainfully of Yiddish, and didn't use it, preferring French and Hebrew.
In high school, when I was taking French 3, I was paired with a Haitian classmate because I understood her speech and only the teacher understood her otherwise, not our other classmates. I can usually communicate with people, if I have even a base language in common. My teen taught themselves classical Greek to read Homer and history of Alexander the Great, and is learning Chinese for a favorite donghua, Heaven Official's Blessing.
We did use American Sign Language with the teen as a baby, on top of the other household languages.
Sometimes I like not understanding why (mostly American) people are proud of only speaking one language...