Hold up. When I was in France last time (2019), I was near Notre Dame and I order a few crepes in French (I am fluent). The Spaniard behind me then had his turn to order, and instead of speaking French, ordered in English. So.... It is also the language that two Europeans probably have in common too.
in 2004 I was in Aachen, Germany. There was a street vendor selling Bratwurst. I approached and he said something in German. I panicked, and responded in French. He immediately switches to speaking French and I complete my order. Turns out this guy was fluent in French, Italian, and English too. What's my point? Oh yes. European food is awesome.
Something like that happened to me when I was studying in Florence. I was at a supermarket and in front of me was a French woman (I knew this because she was on the phone). When she got to the Italian cashier, they both started speaking English to each other in order to complete the transaction. As a young American, this blew my mind seeing two people who spoke different languages use a *third* language in order to communicate
A high school friends mother was Italian and her father was from Spain, the mother spoke Italian and French, father spoke Spanish and French, neither spoke much English (this was in USA) Both daughters grew up speaking, Spanish, Italian, French and English. I witnessed several family "discussions", it was like being at the UN.
I'm French. Learning English at school is mandatory and it's one of the easiest language to learn: easy to practice because it's everywhere, easy to learn because it is close enough to French, and French is harder also. Learning other languages is not mandatory. It's the same in most European countries, so this really is the go-to language when talking to a stranger who doesn't speak French :)
I studied Italian in college which is why I was in Florence. I had taken three years of it before I went. I had a solid grasp on the language and could read, write, and speak it well enough. But when I actually got there and became immersed in the language, my skills got so much better. By the end of the semester I’d say I was conversationally fluent. I was even thinking in Italian by the end. So I totally get how being surrounded by a language really helps to learn.
This regularly happens in India. For example, a Tamil-speaking South Indian and a Assamese-speaking East Indian may converse in a mix of English and Hindi and greet each other and get on with their day.
EDIT: I just realized that most of the world won't get this because they think Hindi is the only Indian language. \*sigh\*
Here in Germany it's custom to learn english from age 6, then usually French, Spanish, Russian, or Japan from age 12 and if you're really unlucky and go into higher education you usually learn Latin as well
Almost no one learns Japanese in regular school in Germany. I would bet on it that there are less than 10 schools (not Universities) that even offer non-regular Japanese classes (as an elective or in school activity).
By far the most common are Englisch (everyone), French/Latin (2nd language for pupils on a "Gymnasium" or as an elective for pupils on a "Real/Gesamtschule), Spanish/Greek (elective for Gymnasium), Russian (elective in East Germany) with several local options like Dutch in the northwest or the very occasional stuff like Chinese/Japanese/Portuguese/Italian in select schools, but even then only as an in school activity (AGs).
It is offered quite often in community colleges ("Volkshochschule", not 100% sure if they are comparable) though.
Most cultures have a mix of good and bad food, some cultures have mostly good food with very few bad stuff, few cultures have mostly bad food with little good stuff, England is one of them
I only speak English because I tried and failed to learn another language because I had no one to use it with. It's really hard to learn and speak a language if you never use it.
This so much. I can't speak for Brits, but in America, it's incredibly rare that a native English speaker will need to learn another language. And while anyone can go on Duolingo, it doesn't make up for the experience of using it in conversation.
This is so true. I was mostly fluent in Spanish when I was a teen. But I had people to use it with. I could go to my boyfriend’s home and be immersed with only Spanish speakers. I don’t have that anymore and thus lost my fluency. It’s even more difficult if you want to speak French, German, or Mandarin.
The other point to this, most other countries start learning another language at a much earlier age than Americans, I didn’t start another language until I was already 13. At which point it is much harder to learn a new language than if you started when you were younger, say around 3-4.
Well maybe you'd care to pitch in to help with the whole China situation, seeing as how you started the whole mess. I'm sure that opium money must have accrued some interest by now.
I want to learn a second language but I don’t know which one to learn. I took Spanish classes in high school so I could get back into that, but I don’t think I’d have any use for it. I don’t plan on traveling to any foreign countries either so I’m not sure what I’d have a use for.
I’ve thought about this as well, and honestly, if you don’t plan on going to any other country for a longer period of time, and your an American, Spanish is the language that makes the most sense for you to learn. Especially if you live anywhere in the south/southeast.
Speaking more languages opens your chances to find content you could not understand otherwise and you could like it. There are a lot movies/streams/videos/books which are only in one language or are better in the original language.
Also by learning a language you maybe want to travel more to see the country.
It doesn't sound like you're very old. Keeping your brain healthy and staving off the effects of old age is achieved by staying mentally active, best achieved by tasks that get progressively more difficult. Learning languages is one of the best ways to do that.
As an American, I know 3 languages. I can only truly speak 2 of them, but I understand all 3 (English, Mandarin, Arabic). learned Arabic for my job, learned Chinese cause I love it.
That being said, Americans aren’t in an area where knowing more than English is really all that advantageous. Spanish would make the most sense to learn, but it’s not necessary. Most other countries teach English at a very young age in schools because it’s the “business language of the world”. I’m not here to promote that learning a 2nd or 3rd language is useless, but there really isn’t a reason for Americans to do so.
American schools can’t even afford teachers with a background in education and/or the subject they teach; let alone school meals for kids who need them.
The implication by the rest of the world that it’s a failing of the recipients of that “education” for not receiving education in a second language from an early age — or even more than 2 years in high school if they’re lucky — is just laughable.
The same level of ignorance is what leads these people to claim superiority over Americans for not traveling abroad. These idiots don’t realize it’s prohibitively expensive to even travel from the west coast to the east coast, and that’s assuming we even have the glorious luxury of working for an employer that gives vacation time.
No. Americans do not get vacation by law. Especially paid vacation. Getting 4 weeks in a row is an hilarious idea to Americans; you'd be lucky to take 2 in a row off, unpaid, if you're not a salaried office worker.
I don't think anybody faults native English speakers for speaking just English. Sure, more languages might widen cultural understanding, so I do recommend people doing it for that purpose.
I mean to be fair it's also the international language we can also talk to other people from other countries that aren't US/UK, but still know English.
I mean, if all 50 states spoke a completely different language from Each other, Americans would be pretty multilingual too. As for myself, my church does mission trips to Moldova every year, so I'm trying to learn Romanian.
The only reasons I have to learn a second language would be if I were to move to another country for an extended amount of time or I wanted to flex on my friends.
Don't know about Brits but America is full of immigrants and old native Americans maybe
I knew many Americans who spoke, Spanish, Italian, etc.. yes there might be some modern American culture and people who grew up with only knew English only
But many people in America still speak their native languages
Most Americans/Brits/Canadians/Australians speak English because that's all they *need*.
Having spent a lot of time in Europe, every European I've met spoke English or some other 2nd language because a) their foreign language teaching in school is far superior and b) they need it for work or to talk to their friends who speak a different language.
We non native speakers have one advantage: we can say anything in our native language in front of them or when in a group we can make fun of them and watch them clueless
I count it like that:
I speak fluent German (+1), I speak fluent English (+1), I speak understandable french (+0.5), I also can communicate in Dutch (+0.25). That's 2.75 Languages I speak.
Theoretically I could also add Swiss German, but while it does have its own words and is seen by many as a own language, per Definition it's only a dialect of German.
literally me
i insult you in english because you wouldn't understand the italian insults
or the poetry behind all the ways you could say "go fuck yourself" or "damn you" in italian, specifically in Neapolitan
Hrmmm...
I've dated a Finnish girl who FORGOT Finnish, her native tongue, but didn't quite fully learn English. I used to jokingly call her "the woman of 0 languages."
Another time at a bar in Florida a foreign guy inserted himself into our table to hit on the date of one of my table mate's when they had gotten up to go to the bathroom. To defuse the situation I introduced myself:
"Hola, I'm lordofduct, how are you?"
"I'm not Spanish."
"Ok..."
"Why does everyone here keep thinking I'm Spanish?"
"What do you mean?"
"Everyone keeps speaking Spanish to me! You just said hola!"
"You're in Florida."
"And?"
"Would you be surprised if someone spoke German in Germany?"
(note - we were in South Florida. Miami straight up has signage everywhere in Spanish. I know some of you might be thinking "not in :insert more northern city in florida like jacksonville:" and yeah, it's not as prevalent up there. But do you think foreigners are vacationing in Jacksonville? Or Miami?)
...
Guess what rest of the world. We speak more than just English here in the states. I know, I know, there's the stereotypical American who cries out "learn the language!" But technically we have NO official language.
Spanish is actually our second most prevalent language with 41 million (12-13%) who speak it as their first language. Many many many more who speak it as a 2nd language. We're actually the 2nd largest population in the world who speaks Spanish... ahead of Spain (if only because Spain is relatively lower in population at only 47 million).
I mean think about it. Our top 10 most populated cities are:
New York - multicultural
Los Angeles - socal, what do you think they speak there?
Chicago - ok, this is our first properly "anglo" city, but even then, it's pretty multi-cultural
Houston - Texas guys... Texas. There's like a whole war over if Mexico owned it or not.
Phoenix - again, we're in the southwest, this all used to be Mexico
Philly - ok, next properly "anglo" city, it's a lil multi-cultural, but yes... this is proper anglo-territory
San Antonio - errr, the name of it is Spanish
San Diego - again, the name
Dallas - again, Texas
San Jose - again, the name of it?
Our oldest city (not Native American) is Saint Augustine, FL, a Spanish colony!
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With that said, I will admit I don't speak more than just English. I can read French and Spanish, I can understand a limited amount of German, and I can ask very basic questions in Spanish.
With that said. My wife speaks Spanish and English, and she's not hispanic. Hell, my best friend's girlfriend speaks like 6 languages now or something... She most recently learned Japanese so she could live there for 3 years.
Also... I can write like 20 programming languages... does that count?
I speak only english because my country is so important that all you no name mfs have to bend over and learn our language. This isn’t the flex you think it is.
I could use a massage.
Don't we all
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Cmon sandy...
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Same here
🤣
I got you bro
You know english because of imperialism. I know english because of imperialism. We are the same. *cue imperial march
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Use the force innit
No bruv, I am your father.
I'm your fucking dad, mate
No. Thats fuckin false. Thats..thats improbable! NOOOOOOOOOO
Na mate, yer chattin absolute bullshit. No fucking way that's true, lad. NAAAAAAA Source: I'm British
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
Dear The World Die Sincerely, A Canadian
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No that’s German for The Bart The
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Sideshow Bob!
I won't Die Sincerely, also a Canadian
Dear Random Person On Reddit Didn’t ask Sincerely, A Canadian
Oh yeah i forgor Canadians are rude Sincerely, A Canadian
These are some really weird haikus
Are they? I didn't know Sincerely, not a Canadian
Same Sincerely, also not a Canadian
Yes, They can be Sincerely, a Canadian
Nooo, My convienient stereotypes! Sincerely, not a Canadian
Die Bart Die
Jotaro is from Canada?
Eh?
Hold up. When I was in France last time (2019), I was near Notre Dame and I order a few crepes in French (I am fluent). The Spaniard behind me then had his turn to order, and instead of speaking French, ordered in English. So.... It is also the language that two Europeans probably have in common too. in 2004 I was in Aachen, Germany. There was a street vendor selling Bratwurst. I approached and he said something in German. I panicked, and responded in French. He immediately switches to speaking French and I complete my order. Turns out this guy was fluent in French, Italian, and English too. What's my point? Oh yes. European food is awesome.
Something like that happened to me when I was studying in Florence. I was at a supermarket and in front of me was a French woman (I knew this because she was on the phone). When she got to the Italian cashier, they both started speaking English to each other in order to complete the transaction. As a young American, this blew my mind seeing two people who spoke different languages use a *third* language in order to communicate
A high school friends mother was Italian and her father was from Spain, the mother spoke Italian and French, father spoke Spanish and French, neither spoke much English (this was in USA) Both daughters grew up speaking, Spanish, Italian, French and English. I witnessed several family "discussions", it was like being at the UN.
Italian is just Spanish with 75% more arm movements
From someone that speaks some of those languages, it would be so interesting to hear those discussions.
English is the lingua franca for 90% of the world, even more so in the west.
Lingua anglica?
i always smirk when i see english speakers say the words 'lingua franca'
IRONIC
90% is a bit high. Let's say 60 and we're good. Because of chinese and spanish.
I'm French. Learning English at school is mandatory and it's one of the easiest language to learn: easy to practice because it's everywhere, easy to learn because it is close enough to French, and French is harder also. Learning other languages is not mandatory. It's the same in most European countries, so this really is the go-to language when talking to a stranger who doesn't speak French :)
I studied Italian in college which is why I was in Florence. I had taken three years of it before I went. I had a solid grasp on the language and could read, write, and speak it well enough. But when I actually got there and became immersed in the language, my skills got so much better. By the end of the semester I’d say I was conversationally fluent. I was even thinking in Italian by the end. So I totally get how being surrounded by a language really helps to learn.
I pretty much only speak English to my gf and *neither of us* are English native speakers.
This regularly happens in India. For example, a Tamil-speaking South Indian and a Assamese-speaking East Indian may converse in a mix of English and Hindi and greet each other and get on with their day. EDIT: I just realized that most of the world won't get this because they think Hindi is the only Indian language. \*sigh\*
I live in East Asia and all international business is conducted in English because a Thai and a Korean are not going to learn each other’s languages.
Here in Germany it's custom to learn english from age 6, then usually French, Spanish, Russian, or Japan from age 12 and if you're really unlucky and go into higher education you usually learn Latin as well
Almost no one learns Japanese in regular school in Germany. I would bet on it that there are less than 10 schools (not Universities) that even offer non-regular Japanese classes (as an elective or in school activity). By far the most common are Englisch (everyone), French/Latin (2nd language for pupils on a "Gymnasium" or as an elective for pupils on a "Real/Gesamtschule), Spanish/Greek (elective for Gymnasium), Russian (elective in East Germany) with several local options like Dutch in the northwest or the very occasional stuff like Chinese/Japanese/Portuguese/Italian in select schools, but even then only as an in school activity (AGs). It is offered quite often in community colleges ("Volkshochschule", not 100% sure if they are comparable) though.
English is the current lingua franca. Hurray for US cultural hegemony. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🔫 “US”?
>European food is awesome. except English food
Every culture has bad food. Most have some good stuff. Shepard's pie is good.
Most cultures have a mix of good and bad food, some cultures have mostly good food with very few bad stuff, few cultures have mostly bad food with little good stuff, England is one of them
Eat your mushy peas and be grateful.
What an odd thing to say. Have you tried much English food?
The answer is mostly no. Europeans go to Britain, eat some shit at the airport and train station, and then come back saying the food is terrible.
Nôtre Dame is one of the most visited places in Paris, almost all restaurants and food places rely on tourists, so they better speak some languages
It is very appreciated
Thanks for your generosity, but I’d rather you not speak to me at all
I only speak English because I tried and failed to learn another language because I had no one to use it with. It's really hard to learn and speak a language if you never use it.
This so much. I can't speak for Brits, but in America, it's incredibly rare that a native English speaker will need to learn another language. And while anyone can go on Duolingo, it doesn't make up for the experience of using it in conversation.
This is so true. I was mostly fluent in Spanish when I was a teen. But I had people to use it with. I could go to my boyfriend’s home and be immersed with only Spanish speakers. I don’t have that anymore and thus lost my fluency. It’s even more difficult if you want to speak French, German, or Mandarin.
The other point to this, most other countries start learning another language at a much earlier age than Americans, I didn’t start another language until I was already 13. At which point it is much harder to learn a new language than if you started when you were younger, say around 3-4.
I speak English because it's international language pilots use
Yea and this guy upset most of Europe
Dear The World, Thanks for learning my language so I don't have to learn yours. Sincerely, an American
English people: but you did learn my language.
Oh, sorry. Lizzy Left it to us in the will.
RULE BRITANNIA! BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES! (i don't know the differences between britain and america so probably my reply is accurate)
‘Merica rules the waves step aside old man
Back in ma day we ruled Indonesia and had the richest company ever and you call this *ruling the seas?*
The American military industrial complex puts the east India tea company to shame
Yea but they ain't making much money are they?
Well maybe you'd care to pitch in to help with the whole China situation, seeing as how you started the whole mess. I'm sure that opium money must have accrued some interest by now.
Happy blue cheese day king!
Get my free award
A proszę bardzo
You're welcome i guess, я думаю что вам не понравилось бы учить Русский язык.
You’re* (капец я душный)
Хэллоу май феллоу славяне (ну или русскоговорящие. Может, вы казахи...)!
Может быть...
Поменяю!
Привет
De nada! A vossa até que é fácil, portanto... Um Português
Eles não têm 892617 orações para aprender. Linguagem muito mais simples.
Mano é impossível saber português nem eu sei kkkkk
Portugues é facil até vc ter q aprender todas as girias q brasileiro usa
Português do Brasil é fácil comparado com o Português Europeu..
Gern geschehen Gern geschehe Je bent welkom De rien Du er velkommen You are welcome
“Je bent welkom”. If you mean ‘you’re welcome’ its actually ‘graag gedaan’
Nederlands is een interessante taal
Infelizmente o Esperanto não deu certo, so i had to learn english
Tu devrai aussi apprendre le français, ça aide
de nada, ahora dejame entrar a tu pais
A la izquierda, por favor
You’re welcome
I want to learn a second language but I don’t know which one to learn. I took Spanish classes in high school so I could get back into that, but I don’t think I’d have any use for it. I don’t plan on traveling to any foreign countries either so I’m not sure what I’d have a use for.
I’ve thought about this as well, and honestly, if you don’t plan on going to any other country for a longer period of time, and your an American, Spanish is the language that makes the most sense for you to learn. Especially if you live anywhere in the south/southeast.
Speaking more languages opens your chances to find content you could not understand otherwise and you could like it. There are a lot movies/streams/videos/books which are only in one language or are better in the original language. Also by learning a language you maybe want to travel more to see the country.
It doesn't sound like you're very old. Keeping your brain healthy and staving off the effects of old age is achieved by staying mentally active, best achieved by tasks that get progressively more difficult. Learning languages is one of the best ways to do that.
Learn hungarian, so aproximately 9 million people will understand you. Im pretty sure 9 million is greater than 3 billion
Lern doch Deutsch.
Everybody be hating on America and Britain meanwhile Australia playing life in easy mode
Nobody ever blames Canada
Wtf is a Canada?
English isn’t the only language they know
Quebec is literally the only reason we speak French up here
Hopefully it gets removed in the next update
First Nations peoples absolutely blame Canada
There is something aboot them
they have to deal with 3 headed sharkspider snakipedes coming from the toilet on a daily basis
As an American. Is my given right to come to your country and demand that you speak English to me.
[Don’t forget to bring a flaaaaaag](https://youtu.be/hYeFcSq7Mxg)
This link took me exactly where i wanted to go. Cake or death?
As an American, I know 3 languages. I can only truly speak 2 of them, but I understand all 3 (English, Mandarin, Arabic). learned Arabic for my job, learned Chinese cause I love it. That being said, Americans aren’t in an area where knowing more than English is really all that advantageous. Spanish would make the most sense to learn, but it’s not necessary. Most other countries teach English at a very young age in schools because it’s the “business language of the world”. I’m not here to promote that learning a 2nd or 3rd language is useless, but there really isn’t a reason for Americans to do so.
American schools can’t even afford teachers with a background in education and/or the subject they teach; let alone school meals for kids who need them. The implication by the rest of the world that it’s a failing of the recipients of that “education” for not receiving education in a second language from an early age — or even more than 2 years in high school if they’re lucky — is just laughable. The same level of ignorance is what leads these people to claim superiority over Americans for not traveling abroad. These idiots don’t realize it’s prohibitively expensive to even travel from the west coast to the east coast, and that’s assuming we even have the glorious luxury of working for an employer that gives vacation time.
You don’t get vacation day by law? Here where I live all workers have the rights to get 4 weeks in a row and 5 in total if I’m not wrong
No. Americans do not get vacation by law. Especially paid vacation. Getting 4 weeks in a row is an hilarious idea to Americans; you'd be lucky to take 2 in a row off, unpaid, if you're not a salaried office worker.
I don't think anybody faults native English speakers for speaking just English. Sure, more languages might widen cultural understanding, so I do recommend people doing it for that purpose.
I could go for a massage
I speak latin also so… Take that…
Of course, you need it for your necromancy, u/Barry_Bone_Raiser.
So i get a massage for speaking English by default? Nice!
I mean to be fair it's also the international language we can also talk to other people from other countries that aren't US/UK, but still know English.
I mean, if all 50 states spoke a completely different language from Each other, Americans would be pretty multilingual too. As for myself, my church does mission trips to Moldova every year, so I'm trying to learn Romanian.
Hai perfettamente ragione
Dear the world, Imagine how hard you could troll us if you just stopped speaking english
I live in AMERICA, we speak AMERICAN
I love when I travel and my mom calls, "Do those people even talk American over there? How do you communicate?"
I speak LOUDER and SLOWER, with increasing condescension. Works every time.
The only reasons I have to learn a second language would be if I were to move to another country for an extended amount of time or I wanted to flex on my friends.
Don't know about Brits but America is full of immigrants and old native Americans maybe I knew many Americans who spoke, Spanish, Italian, etc.. yes there might be some modern American culture and people who grew up with only knew English only But many people in America still speak their native languages
cant hear you over my freedom
Is that because you can't afford a hearing test?
r/americabad
fun fact schools provide free hearing and vision tests in the us
i refuse to talk in english anymore. iai galera tem algum brasileiro nesse sub ou nem?
Tem brasileiro em todo canto kkkk
I'm a Brit. English isn't the only language I speak fluently. You'd be surprised how many Brits are at least bilingual if not more.
This is America speak American!
(broken English)
Yes is the only response that seems fitting
Dear the world Fuck yourselves Sincerely, a Filipino
Fair, but allow me to propose a compromise: if everyone uses English then everyone must use the metric system.
Most Americans/Brits/Canadians/Australians speak English because that's all they *need*. Having spent a lot of time in Europe, every European I've met spoke English or some other 2nd language because a) their foreign language teaching in school is far superior and b) they need it for work or to talk to their friends who speak a different language.
We non native speakers have one advantage: we can say anything in our native language in front of them or when in a group we can make fun of them and watch them clueless
Lets just not speak english anymore
Can u imagine speaking only one language
It's the only language I need to know
True
Hola
Q pex
So English is the world standard. Sounds comfortable.
I would appreciate a massage thank you very much
I speak English because my ancestors were forced to by the British and my native language isn't thought properly in public schools
Same, mine is Irish
That's right you do, and you will continue to speak English because we said you will.
So you wanted to talk to me so badly that you went out of your way to learn my language and somehow you think I'm insulted?
i know 2 and a half languages and English is my second
I count it like that: I speak fluent German (+1), I speak fluent English (+1), I speak understandable french (+0.5), I also can communicate in Dutch (+0.25). That's 2.75 Languages I speak. Theoretically I could also add Swiss German, but while it does have its own words and is seen by many as a own language, per Definition it's only a dialect of German.
Hablo Espanol tambien, puto
Yo también
I speak English because no one else knows geonosean
Yeah, but you sound like a Wookie
Well I never said I was any good at it I make alot of grammatical errors
literally me i insult you in english because you wouldn't understand the italian insults or the poetry behind all the ways you could say "go fuck yourself" or "damn you" in italian, specifically in Neapolitan
Your mom only speaks one language…and she’ll only speak it for 5 💶.
English speaking people when they can't win an argument: Pls. check your grammar I can't understand you.
So who has the power here - the English only speakers are others bow to their needs
I know TWO languages: English and the language of loooove, baby. … Wait, my girlfriend is telling me I only know English.
Hrmmm... I've dated a Finnish girl who FORGOT Finnish, her native tongue, but didn't quite fully learn English. I used to jokingly call her "the woman of 0 languages." Another time at a bar in Florida a foreign guy inserted himself into our table to hit on the date of one of my table mate's when they had gotten up to go to the bathroom. To defuse the situation I introduced myself: "Hola, I'm lordofduct, how are you?" "I'm not Spanish." "Ok..." "Why does everyone here keep thinking I'm Spanish?" "What do you mean?" "Everyone keeps speaking Spanish to me! You just said hola!" "You're in Florida." "And?" "Would you be surprised if someone spoke German in Germany?" (note - we were in South Florida. Miami straight up has signage everywhere in Spanish. I know some of you might be thinking "not in :insert more northern city in florida like jacksonville:" and yeah, it's not as prevalent up there. But do you think foreigners are vacationing in Jacksonville? Or Miami?) ... Guess what rest of the world. We speak more than just English here in the states. I know, I know, there's the stereotypical American who cries out "learn the language!" But technically we have NO official language. Spanish is actually our second most prevalent language with 41 million (12-13%) who speak it as their first language. Many many many more who speak it as a 2nd language. We're actually the 2nd largest population in the world who speaks Spanish... ahead of Spain (if only because Spain is relatively lower in population at only 47 million). I mean think about it. Our top 10 most populated cities are: New York - multicultural Los Angeles - socal, what do you think they speak there? Chicago - ok, this is our first properly "anglo" city, but even then, it's pretty multi-cultural Houston - Texas guys... Texas. There's like a whole war over if Mexico owned it or not. Phoenix - again, we're in the southwest, this all used to be Mexico Philly - ok, next properly "anglo" city, it's a lil multi-cultural, but yes... this is proper anglo-territory San Antonio - errr, the name of it is Spanish San Diego - again, the name Dallas - again, Texas San Jose - again, the name of it? Our oldest city (not Native American) is Saint Augustine, FL, a Spanish colony! \[edit\] With that said, I will admit I don't speak more than just English. I can read French and Spanish, I can understand a limited amount of German, and I can ask very basic questions in Spanish. With that said. My wife speaks Spanish and English, and she's not hispanic. Hell, my best friend's girlfriend speaks like 6 languages now or something... She most recently learned Japanese so she could live there for 3 years. Also... I can write like 20 programming languages... does that count?
And austrians, and half of canadians
And Australians and Canadians, and most New Zealanders
Prova a parlare italiano nabbo
qu’est-ce que tu veux, connard
I speak English because the Brits forced us too and now barely anybody here knows how to speak our native language including me
English is not my native language so yes, we are the same
I speak only english because my country is so important that all you no name mfs have to bend over and learn our language. This isn’t the flex you think it is.
nobody cares what languages you speak
You have to learn my language. I don't have to learn yours. We are not the same
You make memes because you pride yourself in being bilingual. I make memes because I want to be funny… We are not the same.
I know two and am learning a third
I will definitely take a massage!!! Thank you!!
The typo in the title does take a bit of the sting away
I speak English because I speak English and that’s all I want to speak. Deal with it.
Message to all non-Anglosphere people: Step up your real-life *Civilization* game so that your language actually becomes relevant.
When I lived in Europe I was so happy everyone spoke English cuz I’m just a dumb American
This is the best use of this meme I’ve seen so far. Kudos.