• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    Lean

    Oh, the irony.

    Bit oblivious, more like.

    What value does a foreign language have for Bob, who lives in the middle of the country?

    I learned two languages in school, have never used either one with a native speaker of that language.

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        America has 300 different answers for “what language do you speak at home with family”.

        Three hundred.

        You could have 6 different languages per state, with no overlap, just by shuffling people around.

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          Yeah and there are people that speak Basque in Spain. However, you won’t find many that are not Basque speaking that language. The Basque speakers all mostly speak Spanish.

          Same thing in the US. Sure there are people that speak 300 languages, but the majority speak English. They are also spread out.

          Only major exception would be Spanish

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            And even in the US there are a pretty good amount of native English speakers who have learned Spanish for this reason.

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          I mean, I understand the spirit, but that’s bit too close to ethnic cleansing.

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        You have a different language in each house. If you want to learn or practice a new language, you’ll find speakers in any community.

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      What value does a foreign language have for Bob, who lives in the middle of the country?

      I learned two languages in school, have never used either one with a native speaker of that language.

      We have a huge population of Spanish speaking people here.

      There’s roughly the same amount of people in the US that speak Spanish that do in Spain.

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        You might notice the word “lean” somewhere up there. That’s a typo that OOP unintentionally & ironically made while mocking people for their perceived linguistics shortcomings.