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If your attitude is that a local language is "irrelevant", I don't think you're going to have a good time living abroad, no matter where you end up.
by keiferski 3y ago
If your attitude is that a local language is "irrelevant", I don't think you're going to have a good time living abroad, no matter where you end up.
- kvdveer 3y agoNetherlands might work for them then. 15% of people here don't speak Dutch well enough to use it as a primary language, and this is generally accepted.
- arlcode 3y agoI wonder whether these are communities that would accept him or that he wants to belong to. They speak a language and it's probably not his either.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoNot him, but I think there are languages which are important out of their home countries: many east Asian languages, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi. Languages which are widely spoken in other countries as a lingua franca as well as by immigrant communities. Outside of an EU perspective, German isn't a very useful language to know across the world economy. If you're going to move somewhere where your kids will grow up learning the language, I don't think it's a bad idea to weigh the value of them learning German vs. Chinese vs. Swahili and how it will help them in the future
- keiferski 3y agoSure, but it's a bit absurd and disrespectful to consider moving to a country while calling their national language "irrelevant."
- shortrounddev2 3y agoIt's a sober analysis of the pros/cons of moving to that country. Familiarity with Chinese or Arabic can help you navigate parts of the global economy. German less so. I don't think it's disrespectful to point out that Germany is culturally irrelevant to the vast majority of the world.
- barbazoo 3y agoespecially in Germany
- lostmsu 3y agoGerman is not one of the irrelevant languages though.
- lostmsu 3y agoI already live abroad, seems pretty OK. Many languages are really irrelevant though. Objectively. Like under 20m speakers total.