[Foundation-l] A simple question on languages.

[Thomas Dalton]

On 25/01/2008, Mark Williamson <node.ue at 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.