A person who speaks more than two languages is called ‘multilingual’ (although the term ‘bilingualism’ can be used for both situations). Multilingualism isn’t unusual; in fact, it’s the norm for most of the world’s societies.

a person who speaks, writes, or reads a number of languages. a book, especially a Bible, containing the same text in several languages.

If you understood everything you just read, you’re probably a polyglot — a person who understands multiple languages. There are thousands of languages spoken in the world, but you don’t need to know them all to be a polyglot.

If you study Spanish long enough, sooner or later you’ll hear a tale about Spanish King Ferdinand, who supposedly spoke with a lisp, causing Spaniards to imitate him in pronouncing the z and sometimes the c to be pronounced with the “th” sound of “thin.”

France has many big cities and peoples from big cities are stressed and make everything fast, even speaking. The French love to speak and love to play with the language, with words: la tchatche, les vannes, clasher, etc.

This has been studied by scientists and Italian is just slightly faster than English in number of syllables per second….r/italianlearning.

It’s interesting that you say your problem has “always” been the speed of Italian speech. Actually, Italians speak no faster than anyone else. The speed of normal speech is certainly AN issue, but is not normally THE issue. Unless you are super, super advanced in Italian, you will always be not understanding something.