Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Americans can't speak other languages

 go to a place where your futile attempts to communicate aren't so
laughable.
How many languages do you speak??? Just one like all your fellow ignorant
citizens???
I feel sorry for you.

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Pardon,
but when I was in France last winter, I was told this joke:
"Comment appellez vous une personne qui parle seulement une langue?
un Francais"
I've heard that same joke in this USA, with American replacing
Francais.
To be fair, the people who live near the border with other countries
tend to speak many other languages: Alsacians I know speak German,
Italian and English  (now that the European Union is headquartered
there).
People in the Jura also tend to speak Italian, German too.
But people in the middle of the country only speaks French.
So, Americans or not, we're pretty much influenced by where we live
and who our neighbours are.

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I'm too fucking lazy to study and understand the languages, so like
most Americans, I stick mostly to reading the sub-titles when watching
foreign films.  Wait, Americans don't watch foreign films.
Conard.

> I feel sorry for you.
In addition to English, I speak German with some degree of fluency, can get 
by in French, still remember a smattering of Russian from high school, have 
passable comprehension of Latin and classical Greek, and can read Arabic and 
Hebrew fairly well (but cannot speak them or comprehend them when spoken). I 
can also get the gist of written Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, 
Norwegian and Danish, as well as spoken Yiddish. Not that anyone speaks 
Yiddish in Europe anymore.
Kindly get thee to College Station, where your linguistic deficiencies won't 
be noticed.
-- 
Daniel Seriff
Your entire ass? Just packed full of red hot coals?

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Acutally, I watch more foreign films than most foreigners do (i.e., they're 
all too busy watching American movies to watch their own).
-- 
Daniel Seriff
I am filled with solutions!

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... and by global considerations.  For better or worse, English is pretty
much a lingua franca these days.  When, say, a Japanese person conducts
business with a Saudi, they speak English.  A major reason why many
Americans don't speak a second language is that there's no real pressing
need for us to be able to do so.

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I let you dreaming concerning American cinema !

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When French was the language to know for business, you all didn't speak it.

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Wrong. I live 200 miles from the Mexican borders and I can promise you
people do not speak spanish here.

So in English, German, Italian, Spanish, it doesnt matter...you equate
to the same.
Example- La mente enferma, esprit malade, Krankes Gem邦t, mente
malata, De zieke geest, mente doente, 忌抉抖抆扶抉快 技扶快扶我快,
sykt sinn, dementis infirma.
See, it all means the same for you little man.
Over here in the states we have to learn gutter spanish to understand
the Mexican's, e-bonics to understand the street urchins, pidgeon to
understand the street Hawaiians, creole to understand the Haitian's,
and Cajon to understand the Cajon's. Vietnamese is not so hard due to
the fact that they use our Alphabet.
So while you sit there and rub your belly proudly and fart, remember
you are studying established languages whilst many in the world have
corrupted these languages into new ones. So stop being an ignorant
ass- yes many American's speak only one language, but many in your
country do as well.
But honestly, you are a fake. You are here in America trying to rile
other American's into hatred. You see you posted through road runner
cable -
Company Facts 
Headquarters: Herndon, Virginia 
Employees: 400 (nationwide) 
Availability of Road Runner: Some 54 major U.S. urban and suburban
areas.
Now what kind of shitbag are you????

3 languages here, bitch.  English, Spanish, Swedish.  Where are you from anyways?
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The last time French was the language to know for business,
Charlemagne was still in power, and French was being spoken as the
primaryh language in fair London.
HTH
Archie Leach

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Je ne te dirais pas que ton Anglais est "Scheisselich".
Archie Leach

 primaryh language in fair London.
Charlemagne died more than 200 years before the Norman conquest.

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Merci ;-) J'essaye encore de faire des efforts mais je ne prétends pas
être bilingue.