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re: Visiting Europe and noticing little differences between Europe and the US
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:11 am to BulldogXero
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:11 am to BulldogXero
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quote: Most everyone speaks 4 languages fluently. Switzerland, for example, speaks German, French, Italian and Romanish. That's their native languages except almost everyone speaks English. So the majority of the population speaks fluently at least 5 languages. That is impressive. Americans have little reason to learn another language. America is a huge country with a lot of geographical diversity. We're not a tiny country surrounded by other tiny countries who speak totally different languages. At best there is a smattering of folks in Canada who speak primarily French. Mexico is obviously Spanish speaking, but again, the average American has very little reason to ever travel to Mexico.
Major wars every couple decades for the last three centuries force language acquisition so that governments know what other countries are up to.
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Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:13 am to RedPop4
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Major wars every couple decades for the last three centuries force language acquisition so that governments know what other countries are up to.
Plus, if New York, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey all had a different language, those people would probably be fluent in a couple of languages as well
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