slicktor@lemmy.ca to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoProbably New Zealanders too.lemmy.caimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1844arrow-down116
arrow-up1828arrow-down1imageProbably New Zealanders too.lemmy.caslicktor@lemmy.ca to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square103fedilink
minus-squareEndMilkInCrisps [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down3·edit-22 years agoIt’s an Anglosphere problem
minus-squareslackassassin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoIt’s not a problem, though? Many people learn other languages in the US. They just don’t get a chance to use them, and those skills fade very quickly. I’m sure if more people would be fluent in another language if daily life motivated retention. I’ve studied 3 but only used French for the first time this year in my 40s. I just could never afford to travel until work sent me. It was inevitable that some language would become the most “global.” It’s not anyone’s fault that it also happens to be their native tongue.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·2 years agoEven the Anglophones that live in places where they’re in minority refuse to learn the local language. That’s the case in Quebec anyway.
minus-squareslackassassin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoThis just sounds like a strange form of prejudice, tbh.
minus-squaredlhextall@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·2 years agoYup, same thing in anglo Canada.
minus-squareCatfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·2 years agoIt’s called the Crackerverse actually.
It’s an Anglosphere problem
It’s not a problem, though? Many people learn other languages in the US. They just don’t get a chance to use them, and those skills fade very quickly.
I’m sure if more people would be fluent in another language if daily life motivated retention.
I’ve studied 3 but only used French for the first time this year in my 40s. I just could never afford to travel until work sent me.
It was inevitable that some language would become the most “global.” It’s not anyone’s fault that it also happens to be their native tongue.
Even the Anglophones that live in places where they’re in minority refuse to learn the local language. That’s the case in Quebec anyway.
This just sounds like a strange form of prejudice, tbh.
Yup, same thing in anglo Canada.
It’s called the Crackerverse actually.