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> Average user is not multilingual I don't know your reality but literally anywhere in the 744 million users in Europe if you consider the technology literate
by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> Average user is not multilingual
I don't know your reality but literally anywhere in the 744 million users in Europe if you consider the technology literate average of internet users I guarantee that someone who is not even bilingual is precisely the exception.
I would hazard say the same is true in most of Asia and Africa perhaps less so in South America where Spanish/Portuguese are more monolithic.
- anal_reactor 1y agoI don't think you understand the proficiency needed to comfortably consume content in another language. Save for a few hotspots (Benelux, Nordics) most people say "yes, I speak a second language" because when they focus hard, they can say "me wants toilet" and that's enough for their use case (holiday abroad once a year). My mother is a teacher of English but when I brought a friend who only spoke English, I had to translate the conversation between them. This is the reality of bilingualism in small towns.
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- Mawr 1y agoMaybe in those countries. In any case, it's considerably easier to read and listen than write and speak.
- joseda-hg 1y agoMost ESL people (And by definition most english speakers) are at least bilingual A significant part of Africa, Benelux, The Nordics, a huge part of the indian subcontinent, most expats in any country, Canada... Even if you live in a purely Monoglot country (And those are less common than people think), in absolute numbers it's a lot of people