odium@programming.dev to memes@lemmy.world · 8 months agoA thing I noticed with many pplprogramming.devexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1387arrow-down125
arrow-up1362arrow-down1external-linkA thing I noticed with many pplprogramming.devodium@programming.dev to memes@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareKalkaline linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·8 months agoIf you can speak more than one language, that’s really impressive to me. I speak English and beginner Spanish and I’m so timid I hardly even try to speak Spanish because I don’t want to sound like an idiot.
minus-squarehuginn@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·8 months agoApproximately 60% of the world is at least bilingual, just as a heads up. It’s less common to be monolingual than bilingual.
minus-squareodium@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 months agoAnd there are places in the world where people expect you to be at least trilingual even.
If you can speak more than one language, that’s really impressive to me. I speak English and beginner Spanish and I’m so timid I hardly even try to speak Spanish because I don’t want to sound like an idiot.
Approximately 60% of the world is at least bilingual, just as a heads up.
It’s less common to be monolingual than bilingual.
And there are places in the world where people expect you to be at least trilingual even.