smattering

A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.

“She knows a smattering of Greek, but not enough to carry on a conversation.”

A small number or amount of something.

“There’s only a smattering of people who oppose the first amendment.”

To talk superficially; to babble, chatter.

To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge.

To study or approach superficially; to dabble in.

To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything; to smack.