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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
As for those from the UK and Australia, I can hardly discern what nonsense they are spouting.
I wish they would learn to use the language as it was intended.
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I know, right??? The worst thing for me is that they spell words incorrectly! They stick all these "U" in everywhere. Canadians do that, too!
Nah, I love different accents. Some are harder to understand than others.
I think the idea that European countries are in closer proximity to a lot of different languages is spot-on. There are definitely various languages in the US as well, in their own microcosms. I took German and Norwegian, and learned Navajo, and was passable in all three of those languages, but certainly not fluent. When I learned each new language, the old ones sort of got sucked into the new one. years later, I found myself trying to put a sentence together and realizing I had German and Norwegian all stuck together in there. No wonder those German tourists looked at me like I was nuts ...
So I am bilingual, and have learned bits and pieces of a few more languages, but it almost feels like my brain is full and I can't fit any more languages in there. I know I'm not concentrating on any other language other than that two I'm fluent in, because there isn't any great need for it. I speak those two languages daily in my job; I don't need to speak another language in my daily life.