Why are Americans monolingual?
Why are Americans monolingual?
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At official functions, I've never heard Angela Merkel speak anything besides German
and why the hell does the x-axis start at 0? Who speaks 0 languages?
Why is it important to speak more than one language?
if it started at 1, there wouldn't be a bar for any countries whose leaders are monolingual
>and why the hell does the x-axis start at 0? Who speaks 0 languages?
DRUMPF speaks 0.5 languages, that's why
Because heres the languages that are important to know:
1. Your Native Language
2. Your Countries lingua Franca
3. The World Lingua Franca (English).
All 3 of those are English for an Anglo American.
Now lets say you are a Flem. Here are the langauges that are important to know:
1. Dutch (Native)
2. French (Countries lingua franca)
3. English
And lets say you are a Zulu
1. Zulu
2. English
3. English
Lets say you are French
1. French
2. French
3. English
Now Bavarian
1. Bavarian Dialect German
2. Standard German
3. English
Now Catalonian
1. Catalonian
2. Spanish
3. English
Now you are from York
1. English
2. English
3. English
I think you get the point
Because English is the Holy language of Earth and if you live in Heaven (any Anglo country) and a native English speaker you have no reason to waste your time on learning inferior subhumanish languages.
based
Emmanuel Macron speaks two languages
Based and VERY redpilled
Mutti & Putti can speak so many languages? Seems like a bullshit to me.
but he supports French as langua franca
Macron speaks French and English, why is France set to 1 here on this graph? Doesn't make any sense. People even say that he's better at speaking English than Trump
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you should probably go back to school and learn English grammar, retard
Merkel speaks German, Russian (learned at school, which was the default first foreign language to be learned in the GDR) and English
Putin speaks Russian, English and German (learned in the army while stationed in East Germany)
>you should probably go back to school and learn English grammar, retard
Please fuck off prescriptivist scum
I dont know if Europeans are trolling or actually dont realize this chart is from 2013 and says G8 instead of G7
Look, speaking English—my president was a great talker and businessman and seller, Emperor Donald J. Trump at the Trump tower; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Ivanka Trump School of Oration, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Ivanka's school, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the English language, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (English is everywhere; my president explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four languages—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the French are great speakers, the French are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us
>People even say that he's better at speaking English than Trump
Its impossible to speak a language better than a native speaker
>Merkel speaks Russian...and English
>Putin speaks...English
Bullshit, just like i said before.
>be na(t)ive English speaker
>don't know the difference between there, their and they're
>don't know the difference between your and you're
>don't know the difference between its and it's
>don't know the difference between were and we're
>don't know the difference between who, whom, whose and who's
>don't know the difference between then and than
>don't know the difference between to and too
>don't know the difference between of and off
>don't know the difference between lose and loose
>don't know the difference between effect and affect
>don't know the difference between simple past and past perfect participle
>don't know the difference between adjectives and adverbs
>don't know the difference between possessive form, plural and third person singular
>don't know how to spell common words
>don't know comma or any other punctuation rules
>unironically say "should of" or "could of"
So an Ebonics speaker speaks better English than someone who learned English fluently as a second language.
Yes.
Black American English is a perfectly valid dialect of english
>be german
>be extremely retarded
This list gave me cancer
>be na(t)ive English speaker
>>don't know the difference between there, their and they're
>>don't know the difference between your and you're
>>don't know the difference between its and it's
>>don't know the difference between were and we're
>>don't know the difference between who, whom, whose and who's
>>don't know the difference between then and than
>>don't know the difference between to and too
>>don't know the difference between of and off
>>don't know the difference between lose and loose
>>don't know the difference between effect and affect
These are all writing not Language dumbass. It has absolutely nothing to do with what your language is.
>don't know the difference between simple past and past perfect participle
>don't know the difference between adjectives and adverbs
>don't know the difference between possessive form, plural and third person singular
Those are just prescripvist bullshit. If a native english speaker says something its correct.
>unironically say "should of" or "could of"
This might be the most retarded thing I've read on Jow Forums today. You don't say either of those things. "Should of" is just a different way to write "Should've", they are both pronounced the exact same in most dialects
>be negro Murrican
>don't know the difference between do and does
>unironically say "ain't"
don't know much more, 2bh... I hate the negro "culture"
Thank you for confirming all of what I have already said :)
>and why the hell does the x-axis start at 0?
Fucking really?
>Your Countries lingua Franca
Americans in the bible belt, many of whom barely understand or speak english