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Some countries have true bilingual culture, where being a bilingual is a necessary part of life and not something to achieve. Meaning that it's not uncommon to
by zzzcpan 9y ago
Some countries have true bilingual culture, where being a bilingual is a necessary part of life and not something to achieve. Meaning that it's not uncommon to see a group of people discussing something in two languages like it's a single language and not bothering to switch to other peoples language, because everyone automatically assumes that everyone else understand them in either one.
- umanwizard 9y agoThere are places in the US where this is true. It's definitely true of most of southern Arizona (i.e., further south than Tucson) and probably other parts of the Southwest as well. I saw a video of a Nogales, Arizona city council meeting -- the meeting was being conducted in English, then at some point somebody made a 15 minute speech in Spanish and nobody batted an eye.