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Probably New Zealanders too. (lemmy.ca)
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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

The whole South America:

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Right? People are forgetting that we've got essentially three languages in the entire hemisphere.

    You speak three languages in Europe? Congrats you speak 12% of the commonly spoken / national languages.

    Speak one language in the Americas? Congrats, you speak 1/3 of them!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm assuming the third language is French? And I mean really how gives a fuck about Quebec. They just push the language to be assholes.

    So really there are two...

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Portuguese, there's a few hundred million speakers of Portuguese in South America.

    I suppose I should have included French and made it four ... there's Quebec, but also Martinique, French Guiana, and so on. Maybe 10-15 million all in all?

    Vs. ~450m for Spanish, ~400m for English and ~300m for Portuguese.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well it depends, in my city in Colombia they pushed english a lot. Was also mandatory in my university in case your school was not bilingual. May be an oddity but you are certainly expected to learn it at some point to not fall behind in this globalized world. Also USA companies hire people cheaply across all industries and have common time zones, so it can be actually worth.

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