Okay, but it still stands.
On 25/01/2008, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Don't forget though that English does not have to be one of the languages of the bilingualism. I'm sure there is a fair population who speaks say Yiddish and Russian, or French and German, or Cantonese and Mandarin, etc.
-Dan On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
Speaking "at least a little bit of English" is far from functional bilingualism. You being able to buy toiletries is not the same as them being able to read a press release.
Mark
On 25/01/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/01/2008, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, still, that stands. A lot less people are bilingual than you seem to think.
What are you basing that on? Speaking more than one language isn't particularly common in English-speaking countries, but elsewhere, it's pretty much standard in my experience. I've done a fair bit of travelling and speak only English and a little German, and I've have rarely had much difficulty - an enormous number of people in the world speak at least a little English. People whose native language is only spoken by a small group will very often (probably almost always, but I don't have the evidence to back that up) also know the language that is more widely spoken in their country.
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