How many languages does the Dutch Caribbean-born professional baseball player speak who is noted for having hit a home run in the Major Leagues?
Hensley Meulens Hensley Filemon Acasio "Bam Bam" Meulens (] ; born June 23, 1967) is a retired Dutch professional baseball player and current hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants. A native of Curaçao, he played from 1989 to 2000 in Major League Baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Korea Baseball Organization. He was the first Curaçaoan to play in both Major League Baseball and the Dominican Professional Baseball League He speaks five languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, Papiamento and Japanese.
Papiamento Papiamento ( ) or Papiamentu ( ) is a West Iberian creole language spoken in the Dutch West Indies and believed to be derived from Portuguese, Judaeo-Portuguese, Spanish, Judaeo-Spanish, African languages, Indigenous languages, English, and Dutch. It is the most-widely spoken language on the Caribbean ABC islands, having official status in Aruba and Curaçao. The language is also recognized in Bonaire by the Dutch government.