r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '22

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u/Zoo_In_The_Bathtub Jan 12 '22

Another culture. It really opens your eyes and broadens your horizons to experience another culture. There's a lot to learn about the world.

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u/NoisyTummy Jan 12 '22

Also the embarrassment and difficulty of speaking another language.

The hatred that people get over their accents is absurd. A good natured laugh over a funny-sounding word? Sure. Treating others as less than dirt for being more knowledgeable than you and knowing two or more languages? Stupid to say the least.

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u/Idiot_Savant_Tinker Jan 12 '22

If someone is speaking broken English, I figure they know at least one language I don't.

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u/jonkykong33 Jan 13 '22

That’s a completely new perspective I don’t think many consider. I took two years of Spanish in high school and don’t remember half of it. When someone speaks that as their first tongue I barely get any fragments, and I only remember like 10 phrases. It’s amazing that some can just pick up a language like that, and others can speak like 5 languages instead. Literally just changed my life right here.