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  • (Score: 2) by bradley13 on Friday May 26 2017, @12:43PM

    by bradley13 (3053) on Friday May 26 2017, @12:43PM (#515933) Homepage Journal

    I'm actually pleasantly surprised, especially given how many Soylentils are in the US. When I moved to Europe, I could only speak English, despite many years of Spanish in high school. But here, at least outside of the UK, everyone speaks multiple languages, so you learn them too.

    Of course, there's always the question of how well you know a language. My German is fluent (but will never be native, for example, der/die/das will always be a problem), my Spanish is slowly getting to be ok, but my French is just embarrassing. And probably only the Swiss count Swiss-German as a separate langauge; everyone else just laughs at us.

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