• Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Um, plenty of Europeans speak 3 or more languages. Native language, language of the country you’re living in, and English.

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      This. I think european and asian should be swapped in this meme. I think its rarer to see asian speak 3 languages than seeing european speak 3 languages

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        Surely that depends on where in Asia you’re looking at as well? On average, the number of languages people speak is quite different between, say, India and Japan. Or Switzerland vs Romania in Europe.

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        Meh I only speak English and Norwegian. I can (with extreme difficulty) make myself understood in German, but I wouldn’t say I “speak German” . Although anyone who speaks Norwegian can also understand Swedish and Danish (not easily in the case of Danish unless it’s written).

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        As an asian, this has been my experience as well. Of course there are exceptions, but most asians I know (not just in my country) usually just speak 2 languages.

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      Dutch, English (Traditional not simplified), and french, and I can understand german but not speak it myself.