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In my experience it is far more likely that the Bulgarian and the Spaniard would communicate in English than in either native tongue.
by VBprogrammer 15y ago
In my experience it is far more likely that the Bulgarian and the Spaniard would communicate in English than in either native tongue.
- freehunter 15y agoAnother reason why Americans (and Canadians and Brits and Australians) don't need to learn foreign languages: many other people speak English as well. I spent the summer in Germany two years ago. I am conversational in German, but when I would talk to someone they sometimes picked up on my accent or my use of a grammatically proper word that didn't necessarily fit with modern German trends. About 50% of them instantly switched to English. Of those 50%, only about 30% went back to German when I said "auf Deutsch, bitte." What it ended up being was me speaking in German and getting responses in English. They were all too happy to use me to practice their English. We don't need to learn a foreign language, because a large number of non-English people speak English anyway.