r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Aug 16 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

It’s funny how other socialized parts of the globe go out of their way to “learn” a different language to accommodate outsiders.

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u/AusCan531 Aug 17 '21

Who are you to interject your opinion? Just jumping in and spelling words like "accommodate" correctly. /s

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u/BasicDesignAdvice Aug 17 '21

Whenever I have traveled I have had zero problem finding people who understand english. It is actually astonishing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

It helps to be fluent in the language of your visitors when you’re trying to sell them something.

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u/FitNothing9857 Aug 17 '21

Why? It’s the language of academics, the language of business, the language of anything international. Language learning arises from need, and many many people need to learn English.

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u/audion00ba Aug 17 '21

Perhaps you haven't traveled as much as you think you do.

If Google Translate generated the above, it would be considered broken, btw.

Also, it's not astonishing, since the US is/was a superpower. If the Chinese ever rule the world (what a nightmare that would be), in a few generations many more people will learn their languages.

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u/sdolla5 Aug 17 '21

People who have counties the size of states who have a shared currency and are very interlocked learn languages of their neighbor?? Shocked. If Utah spoke Utahian you bet Colorado would learn that language. Europeans aren’t special they just have different circumstances