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[–] 92 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Ahh yes the blanket shit on Americans post.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Not sure why their are doing it, could of made fun of anyone.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Make a joke about the British, they're like "Yeah we do drink a lot of tea did a lot of imperialism, and our food sucks"

    Make a joke about the French, and they're like "ho ho, we are rude and love wine non?"

    Make a joke about the Italians, and they're like "Ay, we do love a pizza, and can't fight a war!"

    Make a joke about Americans, and there's always the "WHY DO YOU GUYS MAKE FUN OF US! NO FAIR! WHY DO PEOPLE THINK ITS FUNNY TO HATE US?!?"

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    [–] 73 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Speak for yourselves. As a Latino born from Mexican immigrants, I speak English and Spanish poorly 😢

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    [–] 57 points 3 years ago

    My 3 favorite experiences with language as an American:

    (1) My Jamaican coworker who I couldn't understand for the life of me and my Ukrainian coworker who my Jamaican couldn't understand at all, the Ukrainian coworker understood the Jamaican coworker just fine though and I understood my Ukrainian coworker just fine. Basically it turns into a fun game of telephone whenever we need to talk.

    (2) My former coworker from Haiti who no one but the hiring manager and I could understand, the best part about this is that I didn't know he had an accent. I just didn't hear it somehow. He was a great guy, he went back home a few years ago when his mother passed. Got stuck due to the pandemic and never came back to the company. I hope he's doing well.

    (3) My former coworker from Guatemala insisting English wasn't my first language as to him it sounded like English was my second language at best. I've been working on it since then. I still suck at it.

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  • [+] 51 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    This. I think european and asian should be swapped in this meme. I think its rarer to see asian speak 3 languages than seeing european speak 3 languages

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    [–] 44 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Americans have trouble with any accent that isn't the blandest, nails on chalkboard accent.

    Once had one ask me if I was speaking English when I spoke to him (for context I am Irish, the north bit)

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    [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Excuse me, but as an American I take offense to this meme. I speak 4 languages, English, Southern, Bostonian, and Spanish /s

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    [–] 31 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Oh look, it's the same old reposted garbage meme that I have seen on Reddit hundreds of times.

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    [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Meanwhile, many africans speak 2 languages in their family, a third one for people that don't speak one of theses two and have studied french and english.

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    [–] 30 points 3 years ago (20 children)

    Well, as an Indian with a love for anime, I speak 3 languages and am learning a 4th (Japanese).

    मुळात माझी मातृभाषा मराठी आहे. आणि मी बरीच वर्ष महाराष्ट्रातच राहिलीय...

    लेकिन school और दोस्तों के वजह से हिंदी भी बोल लेता है. और तो और, इन दोनो की लिपी एक जैसी ही होने के कारण पढणे मे भी दिक्कत नही आति.

    わたしはあにめがすきですから、にほんごをべんきょうおします。今は、にほんごのうりょうくしけんのN5できました。今年の12月にN4できますよ。

    And I plan on learning more soon 🙃.

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    [–] 23 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Many indians speak 4+ languages easily , and we dont even notice that 😅

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  • [–] 56 points 3 years ago (7 children)
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    [–] 23 points 3 years ago* (9 children)

    The only good thing that the Americanization brought is, that, except the French, the world can communicate with each other in English.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    I know you are joking but based on my purely anecdotal personal experience, the French (at least in Paris) can now speak and are willing to speak in English much more than a few decades back.

    The first time I went to France, almost 25 years back, I had a rough time communicating at restaurants or even buying tickets at the Paris metro stations. Not sure if the latter was an ability or willingness issue because even holding up two fingers and saying "two tickets" was apparently indecipherable. Had to muster my school days French and say "deux billets" to produce instant results.

    Edit: And no, the two fingers I was holding up were not the middle finger of each hand :P

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    Americans: "I Don't think about you guys at all."

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago* (17 children)

    I'll never understand this attitude that Europeans have towards Americans. I thought we were friends.

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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Many Americans actually are bilingual or are studying another language to become bilingual.

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    [–] 16 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Some of my collegemates know 6 languages(India)

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    [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hey we speak two languages...English and Bad english....

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (6 children)

    面白いね。メキシコがアメリカの近くにあるのに、アメリカの大分がスペイン語を全然はなせないねw!私もスペイン語が習いたいけど、日本語もうPainintheassだよ!

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    The nice thing about language is, if enough people are wrong they eventually become right.

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