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I get the feeling that to a lot of americans, the concept of speaking more than one language is something wierd and unusual. If it happens, it's mostly because
by cyborgx7 10y ago
I get the feeling that to a lot of americans, the concept of speaking more than one language is something wierd and unusual. If it happens, it's mostly because auf migration from one country to another. And if someone learns another language to a fluent level without moving to a different country it's an impressive achievement.
- mobilefriendly 10y agoIt isn't weird, almost all Americans study a second language in high school (or earlier). But it is unusual to achieve any facility with a second language, outside of Spanish in LA or Miami.
- scrollaway 10y agoNo, it is different, and it applies to most of the anglosphere outside of dual-language countries like Canada. In most of the non-english-speaking western world, almost everybody studies English as a second language and a lot of people study a third language in high school.
- tangue 10y agoYep I had this feeling too that we've got american standards on software. I switched to Safari when Chrome wanted to translate every page I read in English.
- thanksgiving 10y agoYou should be able to disable this behavior in settings by searching for translate chrome://settings/search#translate and deselecting `Offer to translate pages that aren't in a language you read`. Or maybe you tried it and it didn't work as expected?
- remir 10y agoIt's something Chrome does by default when you browse a site in a language that is different from your system's. My OS is set to French and Chrome ask me to translate English webpages in French.