[Foundation-l] A simple question on languages.

[Mark Williamson]

Okay, but it still stands.

On 25/01/2008, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
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