• BruceLee@lemmy.ml
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    Basically most European are the second worste in the world when it comes to language. The worst being the Anglo-Saxon with special mention for the amercain among they who think it is normal to only speak one.

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      They don’t think it’s normal, it’s all that’s necessary. English is the lingua franca

      The incentive to learn a language is in software, not human.

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        English is the lingua franca
        My french side scream every time I see this oxymoron.

        Also, it is the lingua franca only in some context like international business and internet. But for many other thing including international business that doesn’t occure world wide other language are more useful. Such as mandarin chinese, arabic, spanish, french, russian.

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      Learning 3+ languages sounds like a lot of work. Colonizing the entire world so that you never have to learn a second language seems like the smarter move if you ask me 🧐