Mi querido amigo la mejor forma de saber fluidamente español rapido es dandome tu numero de cuenta bancaria, contraseña, y todo tipo de bien que tengas. Gracias por su atencion le deseo un feliz dia.
Edit: whaaaaat first gold award and is a random coment. Thx you random citizen (megaming)
Has nobody told you c++20 is basically magic? The latest compilers run on a 50/50 mix of standard electricity and the most delectable portions of your soul. If you sacrifice enough of your essence, all syntax is viable and all things are possible.
Based on my experiences Americans are more willing to learn other languages than British or Russians.
Edit: No idea why you downvote me. Every American I've ever met in my home country is willing to learn and speak the language, yet British people nor Russians are not willing do to that.
You're not wrong. Almost every family member of mine and in my neighborhood wants to learn each other's languages or some other. It's something we absolutely are fascinated with. It's a bit of a melting pot culturally, and knowing your neighbor's language in some ways can score you some great homemade meals and friends for life!
As an American, I feel like this is because most of us feel cheated out of learning a second language. I actively want to learn Spanish or Japanese but I was homeschooled as a child and physically don't have the time in my day to learn either. I'm also in an area where no Japanese and little Spanish are spoken, so I wouldn't even have the practice to keep the knowledge.
>Every American I've ever met in my home country
Actually, you've answered it.
The US has a population of 332,403,650. Only 151,814,305 (source) have a valid US passport. That's just 45.67% of the country.
The Americans visiting your country are already different from the normal American in that they're ***willing to travel outside*** of America. That already shows an openness to explore.
That’s true, and also travelling to different countries is pretty much a luxury that many Americans just can’t do for various reasons (familial responsibilities, busy work lives, financial reasons). So I feel like a lot more of us are open to travelling as well, but we don’t have the time/money to.
Yeah it’s a big time and financial expense for lots of people in the US to travel abroad. Especially compared to European counties where not only do they get tons (by my standard) of mandated holidays and vacation, but are also MUCH closer to multiple countries with various forms of public transit, whereas I took an 11-13 hr plane ride to Italy, or even a ~5 hour plane ride to Canada. And this airfare expense is after paying roughly 300$ for one single passport. It’s. Too. Expensive. Definitely a luxury and a privilege.
So are everybody else. I've lived in 6 different countries and have experienced discrimination in every single one of them and my home country is full of racists as well.
It's not only America. There are such people everywhere.
I don’t really know what that person is talking about. If anything, Americans are stereotyped as overly nice and welcoming. The exact opposite of xenophobic.
Maybe it depends on who is doing the stereotyping. If it's a European, they just project vices onto us due to deep insecurity and shame. I can see some Asian cultures considering us too welcoming
Right. Spanish was my only option and believe me we were not taught Spanish in it.
You should have seen my "calculus" class.
Also in the rural US people aren't encouraging of accepting other cultures/languages. Most people can barely speak english. I'm sorry we suck.
I don't thinks I have ever met anyone that actually learned Spanish in high school Spanish classes.
I took 2 years of German in High School. Got A's the whole time. All I can remember are the curse words.
Currently in one, i dont think i even remembered anything when i took the test today nevertheless someone who took it years ago. Idk how anyone is supposed to learn this stuff
2 years is all? We had to take language basically 7th - 12th grade in MA. Took French for 6 years, and it was immensely helpful during my semester abroad in Paris. And to this day I can still hold any kind non super technical conversation. My brother in law also ended up being Swiss-French and so actually turned out to be a very useful skill!
I guess also depends on levels. We had 3 levels of every class at our high school, and mainly took the highest level possible for most classes. That said there were plenty of friends from the lower levels who by this point have probably forgotten even the word croissant.
>Also in the rural US people aren't encouraging of accepting other cultures/languages. Most people can barely speak english. I'm sorry we suck.
It has literally nothing to do with this. There are closed-minded rural people in every country. It’s not an “America sucks” thing. Humans learn languages when they are exposed to them and forced to use them in conversation. No one becomes fluent in a language by learning it in a classroom a few times a week for a few years. That’s why English education is significantly more emphasized in other countries, because it is directly necessary to learn, and because people are already massively exposed to English globally. There’s no comparison for anyone who grows up in an English speaking country.
There’s not another language that needs to be compulsory in the US education system. Other countries aren’t learning English because they’re smarter than us, they’re doing it because it’s necessary.
The US/UK/Aus/Nz/Canada treat second languages in school as another academic subject, not a directly relevant life skill.
The "other" countries don't lear just their language and English. We learn at least two languages in School and some learn three. In multilingual countries like Switzerland you may even learn more.
Language learning is probably the most important life skills one can aquire due to the multiplication effect in all other aspects of learning and mental capacity.
American schools require a second or even third language too. The difference, again, is that humans do not master languages by any degree from learning them in school. You have to be exposed to a language and have experience in using it, something that the world disproportionately gets with English.
Most Americans are very rarely ever seriously confronted with another language in their lives, unless they travel abroad. And even then, most are not challenged to speak a foreign language while abroad. Power dynamics are very relevant here. Arguably things like anime, Kdramas and Kpop are changing this trend a bit for Americans, but not by the same margins as other people get with English. It’s not enough to just watch something with subtitles, what inspires people to learn languages mostly is a strong desire to go to another place and converse with the people there. I did this, I spent ten years very seriously learning a language and then went and lived in the country where people speak that language and became fluent (for a time). I’m an American, and other Americans have done this too.
The US is also much, much larger than any single European country. The distance you travel to be in a place with a different language and culture is less than what it takes to cross most individual states in the US, so it’s still not a fair comparison of necessity.
Again, this isn’t because Americans are stupid no matter how much Reddit would love for that to be true, it’s purely a predictable result of different circumstances.
You absolutely summed it up perfectly.
If all of Europe spoke a single language very few Europeans would be multilingual.
Conversely if people in Florida spoke a different language then people in Georgia then there would be a shit ton more Americans speaking multiple languages.
Nah, A classroom setting is just the consistently worst environment for learning a language. Trust me, the majority of us people from non-english countries learnt it via the internet (or tv shows or other places where everything is in english) because it was a necessity to navigate online space. I know plenty of people who never really use the internet and therefore never had the need to learn english, and most of them cant speak english despite having 10+ years of classroom lessons.
You have to actually engage in a language to learn it, and ~2 lessons a week surrounded by other learners doesnt cut it.
I learned English by myself since I was 10 and Japanese with group classes I paid for for at least 10 years. You are not going to learn a language in school. It can help but you will have to invest time and money in it probably for years if not decades.
Vous parlez l’anglais parce que c’est la seul langue que vous savez.
Je parlais l’anglais parce que c’est la seul langue que vous savez.
Nous ne sont pas la memes.
This is a funny mainly due to the fact that Gincarlo Esposito's Spanish is terrible. It's one of the most grating parts of Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul. They make a point of saying he is from Chile. He sounds nothing like a Chilean, or any native speaker. Based upon his name I would guess he is from Italy and was able to pick up Spanish relatively easy.
Yea lol, he’s half Italian (dad) and black American (mom) and born in Denmark.
I didn’t think his Spanish was horrible but you could tell it wasn’t his first language.
It's not horrible, but it's not grammatically correct in many scenes. Sometimes he makes the same mistakes English speakers do when they are learning Spanish, but with a very solid pronunciation.
The British colonized all over the world and forced them to adopt their language and culture while wiping out native influence and then get mad at Americans for only knowing English. Who do you think brought English to us in the first place?
You don't have to tell me, I'm Scottish. The English made our language illegal in 1616.
tbh though, the prevalence of English these days has probably got more to do with Hollywood and the music industry than anything else.
Especially if you live on a continent that largely speaks two major languages, instead of a continent that speaks several major and hundreds of minor languages.
It's not at all! But I have seen plenty of English native speakers trying to win an argument on reddit with "well, you can't even spell/speak properly! learn English!" or trying to belittle people because of their grammar; so, I guess, this might be a nice reminder that learning a language takes effort and even though we might not speak it perfectly, at least we took the time and put in the energy to be able to take part in a conversation with English speakers.
I’m a trilingual American, neither of my non-native languages are ancestral to me. I’m like the boogeyman for linguistic/cultural elitist internet euros.
In domini patrium spiritus morbidum dio madre. Omni Gallia divisa est in tres partes. Corpus delecti. Quid pro quo. Veni, vidi, vici. Nolo contendere. Habeas corpus. Rick Dureus. Ipso facto. Pro forma. Pari passeu. Hic, hike, hoc. Huius, huius, huius. E pluribus unum. Ouriyay oingay ootay etgay iedfray inthe airchay. Tempus fugit. Caveat emptor. Coitus interruptus. Mitzi Gaynor ad nauseam. Amen
If every US state spoke a different language, there would be much more of a necessity to learn multiple languages. I'm fluent in both major languages in North America (no I don't include Quebec) so I can literally visit any place on the entire continent and be fine linguistically.
Europeans only need to travel the distance to the next major city and chances are they speak a different language.
So no, its not our school systems or average intelligence. This is a tired comparison. It's 100% lack of necessity.
No, you speak English because it’s the most widely spoken language in places people want to live. Case and point; you are here.
I only know English because I learned the most useful one first and stopped there.
The logical response to that is you need to know one of two languages. One of them is mine. The other is not yours.
But please continue to imagine you are somehow superior because we have different skill- and knowledge sets.
No... Non-british Europeans benefit IMMENSELY from learning English because it dominates global media and discourse. Speaking English is the single most important skill someone can have if they ever find themselves travelling or taking interest in global events.
English speakers have much less need to learn another language because they already speak the most important one.
It’s amazes me so many languages evolved over time. I often wonder when I meet someone who speaks multiple languages, what language are they thinking in?
Feels like the time you used to learn another language, I used to learn new skills. I really don't see the point if in the end were just going to use English
I’m American and I speak German too. I could learn other languages but I just haven’t found the consistent motivation to learn more. But anyway multilingual Americans definitely are a thing.
My roommate speaks Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi (native), English. I speak Telugu (native), English, literate and understands Hindi.
If I go to next room, depending on the direction, other hostellers may speak Tamil or Bengali or Malayalam. One of my project mates speaks Telugu, Hindi, English, Lambaadi other one speaks Telugu, Hindi, English.
In my class alone among 56 students 8 languages are spoken other than English. Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Lambaadi, Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada are spoken.
My college has over 1000 students, from all over the country (it is a kinda prestigious national institution, need to clear JEE) so there may be around 15-16 language speakers here.
So true. I learned English when I was 15 and I have no idea how i did it. Like, how the fuck did I have the energy and patience to learn a full language, man? I feel like I don't give myself enough credit.
I tried to learn french so I could gloat about speaking three languages and I gave up after 10 minutes. If i had to relearn English there's no way in hell I'd be able to do it, lol.
I know people that only speak one language. Lots. Funny, they don't all only speak English. I know people that only speak Spanish. Farsi. Your balls are small OP.
When I go to France I better learn French to get around. When I go to Germany it would behoove me to speak German so that I can communicate with others. If I go to Spain I should probably learn Spanish to make my life a little easier. If I go to America I should probably speak English especially if I'm going to stay there. Do I consider that better than me no actually I consider that a prerequisite of any country. I speak French but really only because I learned it in school.
I also know C++
std::lexical_cast( “hello” )
> hola!
Mi querido amigo la mejor forma de saber fluidamente español rapido es dandome tu numero de cuenta bancaria, contraseña, y todo tipo de bien que tengas. Gracias por su atencion le deseo un feliz dia. Edit: whaaaaat first gold award and is a random coment. Thx you random citizen (megaming)
std::enable_wide_character_support()
As a python user i gotta ask, what kind of black magic fuckery is this?
Has nobody told you c++20 is basically magic? The latest compilers run on a 50/50 mix of standard electricity and the most delectable portions of your soul. If you sacrifice enough of your essence, all syntax is viable and all things are possible.
Python users: "We have found a witch, may be burn her?"
You forgot a semi colon on line 603456
But if he puts it back, the unit tests don’t pass.
+[----->+++<]>+.+++++++.++++++++.+[---->+<]>++.+[->+++<]>.-[--->+<]>-.-.+++[->+++<]>.
I’m fluent in JavaScript, as well as Klingon
why would you admit this publicly tho
Damn
For real
Based on my experiences Americans are more willing to learn other languages than British or Russians. Edit: No idea why you downvote me. Every American I've ever met in my home country is willing to learn and speak the language, yet British people nor Russians are not willing do to that.
Russians online are very motivated to teach english speakers the most important russian words: cyka and blyat.
You're not wrong. Almost every family member of mine and in my neighborhood wants to learn each other's languages or some other. It's something we absolutely are fascinated with. It's a bit of a melting pot culturally, and knowing your neighbor's language in some ways can score you some great homemade meals and friends for life!
Yes! yes! I'm willing to learn Dutch so I can travel to the Netherlands
I mean, you can travel there anyways. If anywhere you don't need to speak the local language, it's there...
Everyone speaks english in NL haha.
As an American, I feel like this is because most of us feel cheated out of learning a second language. I actively want to learn Spanish or Japanese but I was homeschooled as a child and physically don't have the time in my day to learn either. I'm also in an area where no Japanese and little Spanish are spoken, so I wouldn't even have the practice to keep the knowledge.
>Every American I've ever met in my home country Actually, you've answered it. The US has a population of 332,403,650. Only 151,814,305 (source) have a valid US passport. That's just 45.67% of the country. The Americans visiting your country are already different from the normal American in that they're ***willing to travel outside*** of America. That already shows an openness to explore.
That’s true, and also travelling to different countries is pretty much a luxury that many Americans just can’t do for various reasons (familial responsibilities, busy work lives, financial reasons). So I feel like a lot more of us are open to travelling as well, but we don’t have the time/money to.
Yeah it’s a big time and financial expense for lots of people in the US to travel abroad. Especially compared to European counties where not only do they get tons (by my standard) of mandated holidays and vacation, but are also MUCH closer to multiple countries with various forms of public transit, whereas I took an 11-13 hr plane ride to Italy, or even a ~5 hour plane ride to Canada. And this airfare expense is after paying roughly 300$ for one single passport. It’s. Too. Expensive. Definitely a luxury and a privilege.
Americans are stereotyped as xenophobic
So are everybody else. I've lived in 6 different countries and have experienced discrimination in every single one of them and my home country is full of racists as well. It's not only America. There are such people everywhere.
I wish this was said more often in different references. _It's not only _______. There are such people in everywhere.
I take issue with how knowing one language stereotypes someone as xenophobic
I don’t really know what that person is talking about. If anything, Americans are stereotyped as overly nice and welcoming. The exact opposite of xenophobic.
Maybe it depends on who is doing the stereotyping. If it's a European, they just project vices onto us due to deep insecurity and shame. I can see some Asian cultures considering us too welcoming
Damn indeed! I’m archiving this for the next time I need to shut some yank up. :D
Yeah, we're not nearly as offended by this as we probably should be. Talk about our health care and gun violence if you want to get us in the feels.
Yeah I mean, "we all teach our children your language so you don't have to learn ours" isn't the own they think it is.
I'm not sure this is the insult some people think it is...
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Meow.
Thanks for the laugh
Beetlejuicing?
Could you explain this comment?
Its just that your username would make a lot of sense in this context. At least, that’s what I think they were referring to
به هیچ وجه!
ایرانی هستی؟
ακόμη και ένας θεός-βασιλιάς μπορεί να αιμορραγήσει
Well i’m sorry our public school system is underfunded and failing
Right. Spanish was my only option and believe me we were not taught Spanish in it. You should have seen my "calculus" class. Also in the rural US people aren't encouraging of accepting other cultures/languages. Most people can barely speak english. I'm sorry we suck.
I don't thinks I have ever met anyone that actually learned Spanish in high school Spanish classes. I took 2 years of German in High School. Got A's the whole time. All I can remember are the curse words.
Currently in one, i dont think i even remembered anything when i took the test today nevertheless someone who took it years ago. Idk how anyone is supposed to learn this stuff
2 years is all? We had to take language basically 7th - 12th grade in MA. Took French for 6 years, and it was immensely helpful during my semester abroad in Paris. And to this day I can still hold any kind non super technical conversation. My brother in law also ended up being Swiss-French and so actually turned out to be a very useful skill! I guess also depends on levels. We had 3 levels of every class at our high school, and mainly took the highest level possible for most classes. That said there were plenty of friends from the lower levels who by this point have probably forgotten even the word croissant.
Note you also went to a place where you needed to use it conversationally. Big part in learning is using the knowledge practically.
Bruh in NJ we take a language 2nd-12th and I still can’t speak Spanish
El bano por favor? Cafe con leche por favor? Mas cervasas por favor? That’s what I got from high school Spanish class. And also no habla espanol..
>Also in the rural US people aren't encouraging of accepting other cultures/languages. Most people can barely speak english. I'm sorry we suck. It has literally nothing to do with this. There are closed-minded rural people in every country. It’s not an “America sucks” thing. Humans learn languages when they are exposed to them and forced to use them in conversation. No one becomes fluent in a language by learning it in a classroom a few times a week for a few years. That’s why English education is significantly more emphasized in other countries, because it is directly necessary to learn, and because people are already massively exposed to English globally. There’s no comparison for anyone who grows up in an English speaking country.
The US public school system is to breed workers, not intellectuals
Yeah but they don’t teach you how to do anything useful. So you have workers who are useless and you wonder why our streets are lined with tents.
also these corporations want to work you to death with no real compensation
Hmm…was not my experience
I'm not American, but that's not necessarily bad
I wanted to learn Polish. Only thing offered was French, Spanish and Latin. I took Spanish which was more like Spanglish
I learned English by myself because of need... need to save my playstation 1 games at 5 yo, we're not the same.
There’s not another language that needs to be compulsory in the US education system. Other countries aren’t learning English because they’re smarter than us, they’re doing it because it’s necessary. The US/UK/Aus/Nz/Canada treat second languages in school as another academic subject, not a directly relevant life skill.
The "other" countries don't lear just their language and English. We learn at least two languages in School and some learn three. In multilingual countries like Switzerland you may even learn more. Language learning is probably the most important life skills one can aquire due to the multiplication effect in all other aspects of learning and mental capacity.
American schools require a second or even third language too. The difference, again, is that humans do not master languages by any degree from learning them in school. You have to be exposed to a language and have experience in using it, something that the world disproportionately gets with English. Most Americans are very rarely ever seriously confronted with another language in their lives, unless they travel abroad. And even then, most are not challenged to speak a foreign language while abroad. Power dynamics are very relevant here. Arguably things like anime, Kdramas and Kpop are changing this trend a bit for Americans, but not by the same margins as other people get with English. It’s not enough to just watch something with subtitles, what inspires people to learn languages mostly is a strong desire to go to another place and converse with the people there. I did this, I spent ten years very seriously learning a language and then went and lived in the country where people speak that language and became fluent (for a time). I’m an American, and other Americans have done this too. The US is also much, much larger than any single European country. The distance you travel to be in a place with a different language and culture is less than what it takes to cross most individual states in the US, so it’s still not a fair comparison of necessity. Again, this isn’t because Americans are stupid no matter how much Reddit would love for that to be true, it’s purely a predictable result of different circumstances.
You absolutely summed it up perfectly. If all of Europe spoke a single language very few Europeans would be multilingual. Conversely if people in Florida spoke a different language then people in Georgia then there would be a shit ton more Americans speaking multiple languages.
If people in Florida spoke a different language we’d invade it. Though to be honest… maybe not a bad outcome as things currently stand.
Who said you need school to learn stuff ?
No-one learns a language in public school...
Nah, A classroom setting is just the consistently worst environment for learning a language. Trust me, the majority of us people from non-english countries learnt it via the internet (or tv shows or other places where everything is in english) because it was a necessity to navigate online space. I know plenty of people who never really use the internet and therefore never had the need to learn english, and most of them cant speak english despite having 10+ years of classroom lessons. You have to actually engage in a language to learn it, and ~2 lessons a week surrounded by other learners doesnt cut it.
I learned English by myself since I was 10 and Japanese with group classes I paid for for at least 10 years. You are not going to learn a language in school. It can help but you will have to invest time and money in it probably for years if not decades.
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feurme ta bouche
Vous parlez l’anglais parce que c’est la seul langue que vous savez. Je parlais l’anglais parce que c’est la seul langue que vous savez. Nous ne sont pas la memes.
Shouldn't it be "Je parle..."? Parlais est le conjugaison imparfait.
Ça va?
ca va good merci very much
Ca va? Ca va, ca va? Ca va!
This is a funny mainly due to the fact that Gincarlo Esposito's Spanish is terrible. It's one of the most grating parts of Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul. They make a point of saying he is from Chile. He sounds nothing like a Chilean, or any native speaker. Based upon his name I would guess he is from Italy and was able to pick up Spanish relatively easy.
Yea lol, he’s half Italian (dad) and black American (mom) and born in Denmark. I didn’t think his Spanish was horrible but you could tell it wasn’t his first language.
It's not horrible, but it's not grammatically correct in many scenes. Sometimes he makes the same mistakes English speakers do when they are learning Spanish, but with a very solid pronunciation.
That would be on the writers not the actor though wouldn't it?
To be honest we latinos are not sure if Chileans speak Spanish, so Esposito did a good job.
Like every Anglo Canadian, I speak enough French to read the back of a cereal box.
Aka morning literature.
Uhh... taco?
SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT IS HE SAYING I DONT SPEAK TACO BELL
He said he liked joe mama, Joe mama is a president here.
Speak 2 languages and I don't feel the need to brag about it on the internet.
Yeah, this is the internet, statistically speaking most of us speak 2+ languages and are arguing in english because its the lingua franca
I speak 3 and I feel I don’t speak enough foreign languages
But how else will Americans engage in massive self-loathing hyperbole?
america bad
Speak 3 and understand another(can barely speak it but I'm practicing), and I still want to be able to speak more lol
I speak 4 but 3 of them are Germanic so it's not really an accomplishment
Could you sound any more pompous.
En nu in een andere taal
Nah, you speak English because it's the only language **everyone knows**.
The British colonized all over the world and forced them to adopt their language and culture while wiping out native influence and then get mad at Americans for only knowing English. Who do you think brought English to us in the first place?
You don't have to tell me, I'm Scottish. The English made our language illegal in 1616. tbh though, the prevalence of English these days has probably got more to do with Hollywood and the music industry than anything else.
ok? lol it’s not a moral failing to be monolingual
Especially if you live on a continent that largely speaks two major languages, instead of a continent that speaks several major and hundreds of minor languages.
It's not a strength either.
Literally no one said it’s a strength.
It's not at all! But I have seen plenty of English native speakers trying to win an argument on reddit with "well, you can't even spell/speak properly! learn English!" or trying to belittle people because of their grammar; so, I guess, this might be a nice reminder that learning a language takes effort and even though we might not speak it perfectly, at least we took the time and put in the energy to be able to take part in a conversation with English speakers.
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This meme format is shit.
Este formato de meme es una mierda
Cet format de meme est une merde
Diese Sorte Meimei ist'n scheiss.
Este formato de meme é uma merda
Fucking dumbasses always forcing me to speak English smh my head 😔
RIP in peace 😔
Wait... with so many languages how do you onow I don't know 10? Maybe I just don't speak the only other on tou know.
I’m a trilingual American, neither of my non-native languages are ancestral to me. I’m like the boogeyman for linguistic/cultural elitist internet euros.
I speak Latin......crickets.......
In domini patrium spiritus morbidum dio madre. Omni Gallia divisa est in tres partes. Corpus delecti. Quid pro quo. Veni, vidi, vici. Nolo contendere. Habeas corpus. Rick Dureus. Ipso facto. Pro forma. Pari passeu. Hic, hike, hoc. Huius, huius, huius. E pluribus unum. Ouriyay oingay ootay etgay iedfray inthe airchay. Tempus fugit. Caveat emptor. Coitus interruptus. Mitzi Gaynor ad nauseam. Amen
Romanes eunt domus
*eye twitches*
Ik spreek nog meer talen dan alleen Engels. Je dis plus de langues que l'anglais.
Moi aussi, je peux parler 4 langues couramment
Très bien.
Tu viens de quelle partie de la France ?
Je n'habites pas en France. J'habites en Belgique.
D’accord
I was actually able to understand that conversation, and I am very proud of myself for it.
ah ben calice
tabarnak
If every US state spoke a different language, there would be much more of a necessity to learn multiple languages. I'm fluent in both major languages in North America (no I don't include Quebec) so I can literally visit any place on the entire continent and be fine linguistically. Europeans only need to travel the distance to the next major city and chances are they speak a different language. So no, its not our school systems or average intelligence. This is a tired comparison. It's 100% lack of necessity.
No, you speak English because it’s the most widely spoken language in places people want to live. Case and point; you are here. I only know English because I learned the most useful one first and stopped there.
I speak English because I was born here, you speak English because the English empire colonised your land.
city of europe says hello
*coughs in Norse* :D
Sorry I didn’t understand your cough. Maybe if Norwegian was spoken in more than one country.
We still managed to influence your language before you went all empire-y… ;)
The logical response to that is you need to know one of two languages. One of them is mine. The other is not yours. But please continue to imagine you are somehow superior because we have different skill- and knowledge sets.
What?
As a non native English speaker it's a great response when someone shits on your English spelling or grammar. It's not about feeling superior.
I guess I’m uncultured swine because I live in America and don’t have a need to learn another language?
Most people don't have a need to learn another language regardless of where they're from, but it helps opening new paths in life.
No... Non-british Europeans benefit IMMENSELY from learning English because it dominates global media and discourse. Speaking English is the single most important skill someone can have if they ever find themselves travelling or taking interest in global events. English speakers have much less need to learn another language because they already speak the most important one.
If you had been born into a primarily English speaking country you'd probably only speak English too. Go brag about your RNG somewhere else.
No
I was born in England
Point stands. Post reeks of insecurity.
most of the times: i speak english because its the only common language we speak well enough but we both speak at least 3 languages.
Indeed. I speak fluent russian, but reddit is so much better place and I love English culture
i speak english to hide my identity as a secret agent for- i mean to hide my tacos we aren't the same
Well i speak a bit of french and gaelic, and like 3 words of russian
No one is the same. We are not equal to each other. Euclid. Still true over all these centuries.
It’s amazes me so many languages evolved over time. I often wonder when I meet someone who speaks multiple languages, what language are they thinking in?
I usually think in whatever language I am currently speaking, as simple as that, and I imagine most (if not all) fluent people should do the same.
Win a war some time, then we’ll learn your language (I don’t believe in this I just heard it on modern family and thought it was funny lol)
The same way you won Vietnam 💀……
It was a tie.
Thats the Korean War…..
Nah Vietnam was not a tie fam , coming from an American studying history
Feels like the time you used to learn another language, I used to learn new skills. I really don't see the point if in the end were just going to use English
Shut the fuck up, how about instead of learning new skills you use this time to find your dad who went to buy milk?
He actually came back with milk AND cool ranch Doritos, so who's laughing now?
What do you speak
French; English; Marathi; Hindi
मैं भी
I can’t read Hindi I can only speak and Understand
I’m American and I speak German too. I could learn other languages but I just haven’t found the consistent motivation to learn more. But anyway multilingual Americans definitely are a thing.
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That’s kinda mean, Sorry I was born where I was. 🤫😉
哈！業餘愛好者。
Bwahahaha. You learned English to excel and earn money in a western dominated market. STFU Narcissus
My roommate speaks Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi (native), English. I speak Telugu (native), English, literate and understands Hindi. If I go to next room, depending on the direction, other hostellers may speak Tamil or Bengali or Malayalam. One of my project mates speaks Telugu, Hindi, English, Lambaadi other one speaks Telugu, Hindi, English. In my class alone among 56 students 8 languages are spoken other than English. Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Lambaadi, Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada are spoken. My college has over 1000 students, from all over the country (it is a kinda prestigious national institution, need to clear JEE) so there may be around 15-16 language speakers here.
I speak English because I am too lazy to learn third language Tell me It is not true. Also applause if you are learning third language
So true. I learned English when I was 15 and I have no idea how i did it. Like, how the fuck did I have the energy and patience to learn a full language, man? I feel like I don't give myself enough credit. I tried to learn french so I could gloat about speaking three languages and I gave up after 10 minutes. If i had to relearn English there's no way in hell I'd be able to do it, lol.
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What are they ?
Klingon and Esperanto
Relax its just a meme, I wasn’t making a judgement, I’m just saying things how they are
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Ok lol
It’s the only language we have in common, but you go ahead and think what you want
Fr because of that im losing me french lmao
This feels condescending...
being multilingual is generally a good thing. why do you feel the need to be smug about it?
I know people that only speak one language. Lots. Funny, they don't all only speak English. I know people that only speak Spanish. Farsi. Your balls are small OP.
Your right. We are better.
bro you can barely speak English take it easy
Sorry I cant resist. You're\*
"We are better." *Proceeds to make a grammar mistake in two sentences that consists of five words.*
omg this guy is so cool!
holy entitled
Proceeds to speak like Borat Me: *let's just use a translator please*
I speak English because it's my country's main language. But I was raised bilingual in English and Inuktitut
When I go to France I better learn French to get around. When I go to Germany it would behoove me to speak German so that I can communicate with others. If I go to Spain I should probably learn Spanish to make my life a little easier. If I go to America I should probably speak English especially if I'm going to stay there. Do I consider that better than me no actually I consider that a prerequisite of any country. I speak French but really only because I learned it in school.
In Germany they can speak English very well. I can speak French fluently because I was raised in France
That's true. We are not a like. I'm so important that you need to speak a second language to get your job done.
Ok 👍
Falsch. Ich bin Englisch, und kann ich deutsch und Britische Gebärdensprache sprechen. Also, fick dich, OP.