Very hard question, I don’t know the exact names of many great ones I stumbled into during vacations in e.g., Italy, Malta, or Croatia. One of the best I’ve been to recently is Brasserie Sture 1912 in Malmö, offering a mix of French and Swedish cuisine.
I speak English and German mostly fluent, and although I can’t speak it per se I also had Latin and ancient Greek in school. And I am meaning to but constantly forgetting to start learning Lower German and Arabic.
Core French starts in Grade 4 for Canadians. Americans typically need 2 years of foreign language to graduate high school and it’s required to get your undergraduate degree. Mexicans start learning English in Grade 1. Where are you talking about?
Just because they have mandatory French in Canada … doesn’t mean that people go on to learn the language. I’m in northern Ontario among a lot of Francophones. Lots of people went through school around me that had French but they went through the programs and never bothered to learn beyond that and then forgot it all as adults because their families looked down at the French language and French culture.
Many people don’t get to go to post secondary school unless you or your family have a bit of wealth … so they don’t bother learning another language for any reason. So being poor and from an anglocentric culture that looks down at other enthnicities usually ends up with people not learning or wanting to learn another language.
The sad part is that I’m Indigenous Canadian … my first language is Ojibway/Cree, it was the first language I learned and spoke fluently until I was about ten years of age - I learned English in school but it was more or less a foreign language to me until later in life. The sad part is that this was all about 40 years ago and now the majority of people being born into my family almost all of them speak only English and know little of our Ojibway language.
When you are poor and don’t have the means … you almost have no choice but to get stuck in one language because you don’t have the time, energy or resources to have the luxury to learn another language and poverty has the double edged sword of taking away any language you or your family already had.
I’ve lived in Europe my whole life. AMA
What else??
What else do you have to say besides what else?
It’s like that K&P skit about that guy in the group who says “anyways…” but doesn’t follow up xD
gasp me too!
We have so much in common!
What is your absolute favorite restaurant?
Very hard question, I don’t know the exact names of many great ones I stumbled into during vacations in e.g., Italy, Malta, or Croatia. One of the best I’ve been to recently is Brasserie Sture 1912 in Malmö, offering a mix of French and Swedish cuisine.
How many languages do you speak?
Most North Americans are shocked that a human can learn more than one language
I speak English and German mostly fluent, and although I can’t speak it per se I also had Latin and ancient Greek in school. And I am meaning to but constantly forgetting to start learning Lower German and Arabic.
Core French starts in Grade 4 for Canadians. Americans typically need 2 years of foreign language to graduate high school and it’s required to get your undergraduate degree. Mexicans start learning English in Grade 1. Where are you talking about?
Just because they have mandatory French in Canada … doesn’t mean that people go on to learn the language. I’m in northern Ontario among a lot of Francophones. Lots of people went through school around me that had French but they went through the programs and never bothered to learn beyond that and then forgot it all as adults because their families looked down at the French language and French culture.
Many people don’t get to go to post secondary school unless you or your family have a bit of wealth … so they don’t bother learning another language for any reason. So being poor and from an anglocentric culture that looks down at other enthnicities usually ends up with people not learning or wanting to learn another language.
The sad part is that I’m Indigenous Canadian … my first language is Ojibway/Cree, it was the first language I learned and spoke fluently until I was about ten years of age - I learned English in school but it was more or less a foreign language to me until later in life. The sad part is that this was all about 40 years ago and now the majority of people being born into my family almost all of them speak only English and know little of our Ojibway language.
When you are poor and don’t have the means … you almost have no choice but to get stuck in one language because you don’t have the time, energy or resources to have the luxury to learn another language and poverty has the double edged sword of taking away any language you or your family already had.
That’s a very, very long way from “Most North Americans are shocked that a human can learn more than one language” which is what you said.