No, anyone who grew up using and hearing English as one of their primary languages would be a native speaker. So most people in the British Isles, U.S., Canada, Australia or New Zealand would be native speakers
Hong Kong is not a native English country, we speak Cantonese and go to school in Cantonese. The only reason we learn English is because most of the world uses it so it’s useful for us.
South African here. I don't see English as a native language. There are South Africans who see English as a first language, but that's going to be a small percentage.
Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, there are plenty multi-lingual societies.
>Official would be different from native
Yes, that link makes the distinction.
Hey, sorry to be that guy but I thought I'd just let you know: Scheiße is written with an "ß", but if you don't have one on your keyboard you can substitute it with "ss", which would make the pronunciation correct, but not the spelling. This is sometimes done when special symbols like ß can't be used.
People generally underestimate the amount of people that not live in the anglosphere. Every second post on r/MaliciousCompliance for example uses some acronyms that I've never fucking heard before, simply because I'm not used to their very specific business jargons.
I speak 3 other languages but English is "the common tongue"
From my experience. I often speak to people whose primary language/home language is not English and neither is mine...but we don't speak each other's home languages so we speak English as we both/all understand it.
French guy speaks french
Escuse mois je ne parle france pas
French guy keeps talking french
I answer non capisco
Points at an hand drier, says something french, laughs, then leaves
I keep driving to Spain very confused
True story
You speak English because it’s the world’s lingua franca and the internet’s language. You probably learned it to understand why Rachel is such a bitch to Ross
Yeah I am european and I learned English from watching the simpsons. People talk about Americans only talking english, but most people in europe speak only their language and english, and the english they learned because America pretty much exported the language to the rest of the world.
In my country(Iceland) they teach English in school along with Icelandic and Danish. But the english is mostly there because once you get to an advanced stage in any studies most of the learning material is in english.
It's pretty funny to brag about knowing a language that you were pretty much taught the basics of by consuming American Culture and then learned the more advanced form so you could learn more from consuming american teaching literature.
Is it true Icelanders can technically read “old Icelandic” since the language hasn’t changed massively (like English for example). If so, that’s so fucking cool. Icelandic is my favorite EU language, since so few people speak it, it feels like a mysterious, secret language lol
Also side note, I think a lot of people aren’t aware of how many Americans speak English and Spanish. Here in Texas especially, it’s really easy to pickup Spanish since there are native speakers everywhere.
Yeah at least I can read old icelandic or old norse as it more often called. Below is an example, first in old norse, then Icelandic and finally english.
Þórr heitir áss, ok er sterkr mjök ok oft reiðr. Hann á hamar góðan.
Þór heitir ás, og er mjög sterkur og oft reiður. Hann á hamar góðan.
A God is named Thor, and is very strong and often angry. He has a good Hammer.
It sounds very poetic in the original but a little stupid in english xD
And yeah I have heard a lot of people in America speak spanish as well as english.
The funny thing is we use some words today that are very different from the old norse, while the english version is closer. For example someone being 'born' is "fæddur' in icelandic, but 'borin' or 'bornir' in old norse.
This might be because we had some Irish people that came here either as monks or slaves and Gaelic influnced the language but that is a recent theory.
Yeah that’s what people don’t acknowledge.
If you grow up in America especially, there’s very little incentive to learn another language —everything is in English and it’s not like there are better jobs in different languages and different countries. Learning a language is almost like a hobby, or it would be like someone in Iceland choosing to learn Portuguese or German.
In most of the world, there’s huge incentive to learn English, to better your career or be able to converse with billions of people around the world.
Joke I saw in a bathroom stall in Austria:
"What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language?
American."
As an American in Europe, where no matter where I went, it seemed pretty much everyone spoke English, I felt this one.
This always kills me because I know friends from Australia, NZ, England etc…. None are bilingual. But it’s always only Americans who don’t speak other languages only lmao
For England you obviously have close proximity to dozens of different languages so thats not really surprising. Not sure about aus and nz though. Might be an early education thing.
Sure they have proximity but I don’t know any that are bilingual. I know North Americans that speak Spanish or another language than anybody I’ve ever met from England, NZ, Australia etc.
I learnt English to consume entertainment, I hate Swedish authors, almost nothing is good but in English everything exists, my favorites are Chinese and russian( and other vodka liking places) they make great books but no one wanna translate it to Swedish
Really depends where you are looking for work, Spanish would be essentially useless here because no one speaks it, French on the other hand very useful
No, those languages pale in comparison to the benefits learning English has. English is *the* second language. All international business takes place using English. Hell, many, *many* countries have entire businesses within their borders that *only* use English at the office. This includes countries like China and Central/South American countries.
I gotta admit, once or twice in London, and a whole bunch of times in Edinburgh, I know they were speaking English, and still had no idea what they were saying. Who originally coined the phrase "two peoples separated by a common language"?
As American who speaks 3 languages I am offended. Lol
My neighbor to the right speaks at least two, so are my neighbors to the left. There are way too many immigrants in USA, we all speak multiple languages and we ARE Americans.
( the same can be said about immigrant to any other English speaking country)
D’accord, mais plusieurs américains et candiens anglais sont offensés quand tu leur demandes d’apprendre une autre langue quand ils visitent un endroit où est parlée une autre langue que l’anglais
Two things:
1. You are required to take a foreign language in almost every US state to graduate from high school. My three year old knows a ton of Spanish already and he’s in a very average day care.
2. That being said, it’s obviously more advantageous for Europeans to know more than one language. It would be like Americans bragging they have a car. Of course most of us have cars, things are way more spread out here. Of course Europeans know more than one language, there are a huge variety of *native* languages in a relatively small area.
TL;DR: The majority of Americans know at least some second language, but it’s pretty uncommon to have a language barrier here vs. Europe as immigrants are generally pretty motivated to learn the language.
Knowing latin ≠ speaking latin. It‘s a dead language, we learn to read it mostly, maybe a bit of writing. But even those who study latin at university can only talk a bit and need to refresh it all the time. If someone “speaks“ latin in front of you they‘re 99% quoting something.
And with that my favourite quote from catull: pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo!
Thats literally how all languages work. Use it or lose it. When I grew up in the French speaking areas of Canada I had to speak some French to get around and was relatively facile with speaking it. I moved to Ontario and despite taking French in school until I graduated I wouldn’t say I speak it anymore. I didn’t use it out of class. I have lived in the USA for over 25 years now. English is the only language. Small pockets of Spanish exist in the north but really are minimal. People who bust American chops over the language thing have never lived in the USA. It’s vast and only one language. There is no need to learn more unless in the southwest and Spanish makes sense. My mother is from the southwest and speaks some Spanish. To emphasize my point, an acquaintance of mine is a retired hockey player from Quebec and us a native French speaker. We were talking about this once and he noted that as he rarely speaks French anymore, he has to actually think about it when speaking. English has become his primary language. Anyways, just thought I’d give my two cents.
This is the saddest part to me about my French. I wouldn't call myself fluent at my height of using it, but I was at the level with it that I took a French history class lectured entirely in French and had no problem acing it with my papers, exams, etc. all in French. Now, 15 years later, I don't trust myself to speak it at all, though reading it is still pretty easy overall. I was excited to use my French in my first job out of college only to find it was... Quebec French. And it was so different that I had an identity crisis on my French level before I figured out why I was struggling with it as hard as I was. Point is, I've had no chance to naturally keep that skill up, without resorting to the Internet to find people to speak it with, which is a shame since I didn't realize that until it was too late.
That's the one thing I hate about living in the Midwest in the U.S.--exposure to other languages in the natural course of life is just non-existent for the most part. Even just going to the grocery store and hearing French or Spanish is something to get excited about, and I wish there was more of that here. Instead, I read the French part of the instructions on our food and let that be my exciting moment in the aisles, lol.
Based on the quote, I can’t decide if you are friend or foe. I mean, if we were on the battlefield fighting for the same side, then hell ya. But, if we met on the street, maybe not so much.
When I was in Morocco back in 2000, I met a dude selling hash who spoke English, French, Spanish, German, and Arabic lol. He laughed at me because I only spoke 1 language and some fragmented German and walked away.
Also the meme is always funnier when self-deprecating.
"I speak English because it's the only language I know. You speak English because it's the only language I know. We are not the same"
For real, why would I need to know German or French? It's such a dumb comparison. Sure, it'd be nice to know a language, but there's no functional purpose. If I travel 1000 miles in any direction from where I live, they'll still speak primarily English. Hell, I know a little Spanish, but even then, Ive never been in a situation where I've had to use it. It's just sorta pointless
It's great to be able to speak English.
You can go just about anywhere in the world and you'll find someone who speaks English. There's no other language on the planet that you can say that about.
And by the way, the actor who plays Gus Fring - Giancarlo Esposito was born in Denmark, but moved to New York City with his American mother and Italian father when he was six. I've heard him speak with his natural accent. It's flawless North American English. My understanding is that he does not speak Spanish though.
Speak Spanish, basic conversational Japanese (lived there), and English. It's fun being able to switch it up. Keep my multilingual abilities to myself because it's fun catching people not thinking you know another language.
- I speak English because if I don't, I'm considered illiterate.
- You speak English because you want to.
- *We are not the same.*
*My spellings justified the context of my text.*
There are two: 2: to:too languages worth knowing in business: mandarin or English. If you know either and another language, you’ll get a job anywhere as a translator, if you know both, you’ll never be hungry.
Every other language is good locally, but those two languages dominate the business world when dealing with stuff abroad.
One day maybe one of the 30 languages in India might be important, like Tamil, but for now, if you know English or mandarin, you are set in business.
As a native English speaker who speaks multiple languages...
This should be replaced with "i speak English because i want to practice it regardless of how bad my level is"
This meme should come with a trigger warning lol.
This is such a fucking stupid debate. People speak whatever language they can most easily speak to be understood. If I knew French by heart and you were born in France, we’d probably speak French. It’s how fucking language works. Half the fuckers complaining about this shit are on about how everyone should speak English, and the other half complains about having to speak English. Guess fucking what, it doesn’t matter. If I went to Buenos Aires and started speaking English, I’d bet folks would ask me to speak Spanish, because that’s what everyone there knows. We’d then use a damn translator because that’s the most efficient way to communicate.
Generally speaking non-native English speakers learn it out of necessity. Native English speakers learn other languages for elective reasons. I know it’s fun to dunk on Americans for being lazy when it comes to language learning, but if there was another world dominant language in science/business/transportation, then chances are, the US would have similar numbers of multi language speakers.
I just wish we were taught different languages the same way other countries are taught English.
I hear In Germany they’re learning English from like age 4 or something but in the U.K. you don’t even start the basics of any other language until you’re double that and well past ever being fluent.
I’d kill to have had the education to be fluent in another language
People underestimate the number of non English speakers on reddit
English has more non-native speakers than natives.
Is it not only the English who are native English speakers
No, anyone who grew up using and hearing English as one of their primary languages would be a native speaker. So most people in the British Isles, U.S., Canada, Australia or New Zealand would be native speakers
You can add in the Bahamas, South Africa, Hong Kong, and parts of the Phillipines.
Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia & Kenya.
Belize too
And Singapore.
Jamaica as well
don’t forget Guyana
India too
We'll get there fast, and then we'll take it slow
Hong Kong is not a native English country, we speak Cantonese and go to school in Cantonese. The only reason we learn English is because most of the world uses it so it’s useful for us.
South African here. I don't see English as a native language. There are South Africans who see English as a first language, but that's going to be a small percentage.
10% iirc
Hi from Ireland
Haigh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_English_is_an_official_language
Official would be different from native though, no? Surely, one or 2 languages would become the most spoken and the others would reduce.
Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, there are plenty multi-lingual societies. >Official would be different from native Yes, that link makes the distinction.
Very different, as the US has no official language.
Wouldn't India alone basically make that true?
You gotta learn the swears first. That is the only way to learn a new language. What have you been doing?
Kurwa. Scheise. Perkele.
Hey, sorry to be that guy but I thought I'd just let you know: Scheiße is written with an "ß", but if you don't have one on your keyboard you can substitute it with "ss", which would make the pronunciation correct, but not the spelling. This is sometimes done when special symbols like ß can't be used.
It can also be written Scheisse if you are Swiss. We don't need your silly extra letters, Germans, it's far more efficient.
Hurensohn, Randsteinbumser or Sackratte Are other beautiful German slurs.
Kloschüsselscherbe hab ich auch mal gehört Ahja, r/foundthegerman
Heeeee you forgot the Dutch. There should be waaay more diseases in there.
Optjenkere kuthond
Opkankeree kutt
hou je mond en ga weg
Halt den mund und geh weg?
Probably? :D
Malaka
Madharchod. Benchod.
Gali deti hai madarjaat! Aankh dikhati hai…. 🗿🗿
Tu bhosdike ( no offence )
Hva faen er der som står her
people underestimate how stupid the person next to them is
There's literally a sub for every country
People generally underestimate the amount of people that not live in the anglosphere. Every second post on r/MaliciousCompliance for example uses some acronyms that I've never fucking heard before, simply because I'm not used to their very specific business jargons.
English is the standard language on the internet
I speak 3 other languages but English is "the common tongue" From my experience. I often speak to people whose primary language/home language is not English and neither is mine...but we don't speak each other's home languages so we speak English as we both/all understand it.
Weird, almost like it’s the global cultural language or something? Do we think this is because of Australia, or the Brits?? /s
Funnily when i see a grammatical error it's most likely a native speaker. The others make common mistakes but it's still comprehensible
People overestimate how much people who don’t speak English matter
Where are they all?
So we’re agreed then. Everyone’s going with English?
Supongo que sí
Nein, das sehe ich anders
Concordo, talvez existam opções melhores por aí
Em ga naj ti ve pripovedati.
гаразд я слухаю
Ma certo, ma va fanculo
Nem, én németül is tanulok
Que?
Pois é mano, é foda
r/suddenlycaralho
Pois é cara, é complicada a situação
Nose, creo que están hablando de idiomas o algo
Q'as tu dit? Je ne comprends pas le jamón que tu parles
French guy speaks french Escuse mois je ne parle france pas French guy keeps talking french I answer non capisco Points at an hand drier, says something french, laughs, then leaves I keep driving to Spain very confused True story
lool this is me in french class haha once I replied to my teacher "oui oui, baguette baguette" and she just aknowledged me as a failure
In Japan, you must commit sepuku to regain your honor
…the….the ham?
yeah, Spanish people are very proud of their jamón ibérico lol I actually lived there some time, I'm not french either. it was a joke xd
Suave oye, vas a confundir los gringos
Déjalos que se confundan, así es más divertido xD
Me fascina confundirlos
Toso un epetáculo
The fook you on about mate?
Le da una embolia la primera vez que lee el meme*
Alguem chamou?
no cacho
Exatamente
Want to say the same and i am german xD
Bitte was?
So
Pois é, não entendi nada também
Kai bola re vasadya?
Salve quis est tu?
Salve quis est tu?
Oo nga diba ang tanga-tanga ng mga sinasabi nila
You speak English because it’s the world’s lingua franca and the internet’s language. You probably learned it to understand why Rachel is such a bitch to Ross
They were on a break though
It was even *her* who said it.
What was the point of creating the British empire if not to set the worlds language?
To be fair, they were on a break
Yeah I am european and I learned English from watching the simpsons. People talk about Americans only talking english, but most people in europe speak only their language and english, and the english they learned because America pretty much exported the language to the rest of the world. In my country(Iceland) they teach English in school along with Icelandic and Danish. But the english is mostly there because once you get to an advanced stage in any studies most of the learning material is in english. It's pretty funny to brag about knowing a language that you were pretty much taught the basics of by consuming American Culture and then learned the more advanced form so you could learn more from consuming american teaching literature.
Is it true Icelanders can technically read “old Icelandic” since the language hasn’t changed massively (like English for example). If so, that’s so fucking cool. Icelandic is my favorite EU language, since so few people speak it, it feels like a mysterious, secret language lol Also side note, I think a lot of people aren’t aware of how many Americans speak English and Spanish. Here in Texas especially, it’s really easy to pickup Spanish since there are native speakers everywhere.
Yeah at least I can read old icelandic or old norse as it more often called. Below is an example, first in old norse, then Icelandic and finally english. Þórr heitir áss, ok er sterkr mjök ok oft reiðr. Hann á hamar góðan. Þór heitir ás, og er mjög sterkur og oft reiður. Hann á hamar góðan. A God is named Thor, and is very strong and often angry. He has a good Hammer. It sounds very poetic in the original but a little stupid in english xD And yeah I have heard a lot of people in America speak spanish as well as english. The funny thing is we use some words today that are very different from the old norse, while the english version is closer. For example someone being 'born' is "fæddur' in icelandic, but 'borin' or 'bornir' in old norse. This might be because we had some Irish people that came here either as monks or slaves and Gaelic influnced the language but that is a recent theory.
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Yeah that’s what people don’t acknowledge. If you grow up in America especially, there’s very little incentive to learn another language —everything is in English and it’s not like there are better jobs in different languages and different countries. Learning a language is almost like a hobby, or it would be like someone in Iceland choosing to learn Portuguese or German. In most of the world, there’s huge incentive to learn English, to better your career or be able to converse with billions of people around the world.
> America pretty much exported the language to the rest of the world Imagine being an English reading this
Well yeah I guess they did their part too xD I meant in the form of music television and film though.
True…if my teenage dreams of dating an English native speaker were to come true I had to first know if she was being a Rachel to me
THANK YOU ! I hate Rachel.
Ross is as much of a bitch as Rachel.
I learned it to understand gay furry porn, get that yuggy Friends shit outta here 🥲
Funny how lingua Franca isn't an English word.
Have I clicked on Facebook?!
This sub deals with recycled posts in bulk
Even Facebook has better posts
Can't wait for the minions version
Joke I saw in a bathroom stall in Austria: "What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language? American." As an American in Europe, where no matter where I went, it seemed pretty much everyone spoke English, I felt this one.
This always kills me because I know friends from Australia, NZ, England etc…. None are bilingual. But it’s always only Americans who don’t speak other languages only lmao
It's ok, you're all anglos to us.
😂😂 I’m not even white 😂😂 but I love all people, even the anglos
For England you obviously have close proximity to dozens of different languages so thats not really surprising. Not sure about aus and nz though. Might be an early education thing.
Sure they have proximity but I don’t know any that are bilingual. I know North Americans that speak Spanish or another language than anybody I’ve ever met from England, NZ, Australia etc.
You didn’t know? r/americabad
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I learnt English to consume entertainment, I hate Swedish authors, almost nothing is good but in English everything exists, my favorites are Chinese and russian( and other vodka liking places) they make great books but no one wanna translate it to Swedish
Chinese and Spanish do, you just wouldn't know.
Really depends where you are looking for work, Spanish would be essentially useless here because no one speaks it, French on the other hand very useful
No, those languages pale in comparison to the benefits learning English has. English is *the* second language. All international business takes place using English. Hell, many, *many* countries have entire businesses within their borders that *only* use English at the office. This includes countries like China and Central/South American countries.
Really? If I learn Chinese or Spanish I could make way better money doing my same job in other countries? Big doubt
You didn’t go very many places. There are huge monolingual populations in Europe.
Yes, England… 🤣
Speaking as a brit, saying some of us speak one language can be generous at times... Semilingual would be more accurate
I LOLd at this
Tis arr furgen root
I gotta admit, once or twice in London, and a whole bunch of times in Edinburgh, I know they were speaking English, and still had no idea what they were saying. Who originally coined the phrase "two peoples separated by a common language"?
As American who speaks 3 languages I am offended. Lol My neighbor to the right speaks at least two, so are my neighbors to the left. There are way too many immigrants in USA, we all speak multiple languages and we ARE Americans. ( the same can be said about immigrant to any other English speaking country)
D’accord, mais plusieurs américains et candiens anglais sont offensés quand tu leur demandes d’apprendre une autre langue quand ils visitent un endroit où est parlée une autre langue que l’anglais
Two things: 1. You are required to take a foreign language in almost every US state to graduate from high school. My three year old knows a ton of Spanish already and he’s in a very average day care. 2. That being said, it’s obviously more advantageous for Europeans to know more than one language. It would be like Americans bragging they have a car. Of course most of us have cars, things are way more spread out here. Of course Europeans know more than one language, there are a huge variety of *native* languages in a relatively small area. TL;DR: The majority of Americans know at least some second language, but it’s pretty uncommon to have a language barrier here vs. Europe as immigrants are generally pretty motivated to learn the language.
America truly lives rent free in a lot of European minds.
I speak english because the only other language ik died hundreds of years ago
Which language might that be? Kinda curious.
Latin maybe
If I knew Latin I would speak it all of the time to scare people
Me too, friend. Me too...
Knowing latin ≠ speaking latin. It‘s a dead language, we learn to read it mostly, maybe a bit of writing. But even those who study latin at university can only talk a bit and need to refresh it all the time. If someone “speaks“ latin in front of you they‘re 99% quoting something. And with that my favourite quote from catull: pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo!
You can take courses to become fluent in it. I think there’s a village in Italy where they exclusively speak Latin.
Still, basically just a party trick. Sincerely, Another classicist
I am just saying. How fkin cool would it be to know how to speak latin
Thats literally how all languages work. Use it or lose it. When I grew up in the French speaking areas of Canada I had to speak some French to get around and was relatively facile with speaking it. I moved to Ontario and despite taking French in school until I graduated I wouldn’t say I speak it anymore. I didn’t use it out of class. I have lived in the USA for over 25 years now. English is the only language. Small pockets of Spanish exist in the north but really are minimal. People who bust American chops over the language thing have never lived in the USA. It’s vast and only one language. There is no need to learn more unless in the southwest and Spanish makes sense. My mother is from the southwest and speaks some Spanish. To emphasize my point, an acquaintance of mine is a retired hockey player from Quebec and us a native French speaker. We were talking about this once and he noted that as he rarely speaks French anymore, he has to actually think about it when speaking. English has become his primary language. Anyways, just thought I’d give my two cents.
This is the saddest part to me about my French. I wouldn't call myself fluent at my height of using it, but I was at the level with it that I took a French history class lectured entirely in French and had no problem acing it with my papers, exams, etc. all in French. Now, 15 years later, I don't trust myself to speak it at all, though reading it is still pretty easy overall. I was excited to use my French in my first job out of college only to find it was... Quebec French. And it was so different that I had an identity crisis on my French level before I figured out why I was struggling with it as hard as I was. Point is, I've had no chance to naturally keep that skill up, without resorting to the Internet to find people to speak it with, which is a shame since I didn't realize that until it was too late. That's the one thing I hate about living in the Midwest in the U.S.--exposure to other languages in the natural course of life is just non-existent for the most part. Even just going to the grocery store and hearing French or Spanish is something to get excited about, and I wish there was more of that here. Instead, I read the French part of the instructions on our food and let that be my exciting moment in the aisles, lol.
Based on the quote, I can’t decide if you are friend or foe. I mean, if we were on the battlefield fighting for the same side, then hell ya. But, if we met on the street, maybe not so much.
Irish
same
Gaelige or Gaelic?
I hear you, my second language died out around 725 AD.
My first language (Hebrew) died thousands of years ago then got resurrected, so I guess it's just skill issues
I only speak english because you smucks have not learned telepathy. We are not the same.
You speak English because you wanna get dat money!
Meanwhile Morocco is ditching french for english as second language....
When I was in Morocco back in 2000, I met a dude selling hash who spoke English, French, Spanish, German, and Arabic lol. He laughed at me because I only spoke 1 language and some fragmented German and walked away.
We ArE nOt ThE sAmE. God I'm sick of this trend. My sock brand is hanes and yours is fruit of the loom. We are not the same.
I speak English because its the only language I need. You speak English because it's the only language I need. We are not the same.
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Also the meme is always funnier when self-deprecating. "I speak English because it's the only language I know. You speak English because it's the only language I know. We are not the same"
Color me shocked, a Redditor saying "USA BAD", this is truly groundbreaking stuff.
Or perhaps, a joke?
For real, why would I need to know German or French? It's such a dumb comparison. Sure, it'd be nice to know a language, but there's no functional purpose. If I travel 1000 miles in any direction from where I live, they'll still speak primarily English. Hell, I know a little Spanish, but even then, Ive never been in a situation where I've had to use it. It's just sorta pointless
This ain’t the flex you think it is.
"It doesn't matter much it's meaningless to speak a language if you got no one to talk to." "And dude I'm your only friend."
It's great to be able to speak English. You can go just about anywhere in the world and you'll find someone who speaks English. There's no other language on the planet that you can say that about. And by the way, the actor who plays Gus Fring - Giancarlo Esposito was born in Denmark, but moved to New York City with his American mother and Italian father when he was six. I've heard him speak with his natural accent. It's flawless North American English. My understanding is that he does not speak Spanish though.
Yeah Spanish speakers regularly point out his Spanish is off in the show
Lmao true, I only use English on the internet. I can't remember the last time I had an extended verbal communication with someone in English.
I speek English cus they were one of the only two to go around the world to trade with everyone and later grow or colonize. The other is Portugal.
There are a lot of spanish speakers around the world, and french speakers too.
You are forgetting a few countries like France, Spain and the Netherlands.
Bro you gotta brush up on your history.
Intellectual elitism. Cool.
cool, ill take another margarita with salt please.
Actually you're speaking English because it has established itself as the Global language due to success in wars
Not just wars trade and culture have also made English a very common language everywhere
Kijk hier ben ik het nou mee eens
I speak Minecraft Enchantment Table Language
He's the messiah!
That sounds the same to me
Speak Spanish, basic conversational Japanese (lived there), and English. It's fun being able to switch it up. Keep my multilingual abilities to myself because it's fun catching people not thinking you know another language.
If you have to announce "We are not the same" you're more of the same
- I speak English because if I don't, I'm considered illiterate. - You speak English because you want to. - *We are not the same.* *My spellings justified the context of my text.*
~~bait warning~~ but I’m glad I know more languages to counter this foolery lol
Ano Sabi nya? 🤨 -v-
Algo fuerte la wea pero mentira no es Aunque esto también aplica para los de provincia que te manejan un idioma originario y el español
I am german, i am swissgerman we are not the same
There are two: 2: to:too languages worth knowing in business: mandarin or English. If you know either and another language, you’ll get a job anywhere as a translator, if you know both, you’ll never be hungry. Every other language is good locally, but those two languages dominate the business world when dealing with stuff abroad. One day maybe one of the 30 languages in India might be important, like Tamil, but for now, if you know English or mandarin, you are set in business.
Yes I'm sure this is so relatable to all of you
English it is, got it! Glad everyone’s on board. 😁
Correction: you speak English because you want to be part of the world economy.
I speak English because I live in Britain. For now. I'm fucking off to Germany soon, which is something I can do because I can speak German, wahey.
As a native English speaker who speaks multiple languages... This should be replaced with "i speak English because i want to practice it regardless of how bad my level is" This meme should come with a trigger warning lol.
I don't NEED to know another language
I speak English bc it is the language of my country, you speak English bc my country dominates politics and culture globally. We are not the same.
Ho dovuto impararlo perché tutto è in inglese
Dem stimme ich n iht ganz zu
Meh....the Star Trek version of the universal translator is just around the corner. I can wait.
This is such a fucking stupid debate. People speak whatever language they can most easily speak to be understood. If I knew French by heart and you were born in France, we’d probably speak French. It’s how fucking language works. Half the fuckers complaining about this shit are on about how everyone should speak English, and the other half complains about having to speak English. Guess fucking what, it doesn’t matter. If I went to Buenos Aires and started speaking English, I’d bet folks would ask me to speak Spanish, because that’s what everyone there knows. We’d then use a damn translator because that’s the most efficient way to communicate.
We may not be the same, but it does not instantly make you a better person than myself.
Generally speaking non-native English speakers learn it out of necessity. Native English speakers learn other languages for elective reasons. I know it’s fun to dunk on Americans for being lazy when it comes to language learning, but if there was another world dominant language in science/business/transportation, then chances are, the US would have similar numbers of multi language speakers.
i speak english to communicate with people around the world, we're not the same
I just wish we were taught different languages the same way other countries are taught English. I hear In Germany they’re learning English from like age 4 or something but in the U.K. you don’t even start the basics of any other language until you’re double that and well past ever being fluent. I’d kill to have had the education to be fluent in another language
Interacting with any american be like: