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Ascend910@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
They say being bilingual is only impressive if your first language is English. Since you are expected to know English anyways. Is it true?
When someone asks me which languages I speak, I say Italian.
“…and?” “Well, English of course”
“…and?” “…and that’s it”, I’d admit embarassed.
Among young educated people in most of Europe it is common to speak at least two languages beside your native one.
Well nobody can objectively force something to impress you or not impress you. But most people speak more than one language natively or on a regular basis, hell just short of 2 billion people (1/4 the world’s population!) alone are from the Indian subcontinent region, and there the high variation/diversity of languages throughout the region make speaking 3-4 languages well the norm.
Similar story with Indonesia/Papua New Guinea. And most people in Central Asia and many European parts of the former USSR speak Russian as a 2nd language (nearly all Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Baltic people speak Russian natively to a high fluency, while also speaking a 2nd sometimes 3rd native language)
uis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There are trilingual regions in my country. And one neighbouring country is mostly trilingual too(2 official languages + 1 foreign)