Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. 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 called polyglots.

Russian
Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. It is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and the largest native language in Europe with 144 million speakers in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. It is the eighth most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers and seventh by total number of speakers.

Known Speakers

 * Ivan Vanko
 * Phil Coulson (not fluently)

Spanish
Spanish is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain. It is usually considered the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.

Known Speakers

 * Phil Coulson (not fluently)