• Badass_panda@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Right? People are forgetting that we’ve got essentially three languages in the entire hemisphere.

      You speak three languages in Europe? Congrats you speak 12% of the commonly spoken / national languages.

      Speak one language in the Americas? Congrats, you speak 1/3 of them!

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        1 year ago

        I’m assuming the third language is French? And I mean really how gives a fuck about Quebec. They just push the language to be assholes.

        So really there are two…

    • Leo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Well it depends, in my city in Colombia they pushed english a lot. Was also mandatory in my university in case your school was not bilingual. May be an oddity but you are certainly expected to learn it at some point to not fall behind in this globalized world. Also USA companies hire people cheaply across all industries and have common time zones, so it can be actually worth.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, in mine too. But if you are not going to leave the continent or study it is not so necessary. I mean the reason I know English is just to look for knowledge.

        Also as just @Badass_panda says, 3 languages in the whole hemisphere.

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      Sorry, but you have a lot of places where different languages melt and mix, especially near Brazil. They don’t speak Spanish there