How rare is it to see a person who can't speak any language fluently other than his/her mother tongue in your country?
In Japan, over 90% population is monolingual and they've given up learning new languages, naturally as most of them will have no chance to use ones in real life.
Even in large global cities like Tokyo and Osaka I guess the numbers won't go under 80.
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There's like 1 percent of foreigner in japan and they're pretty much not monolingual
In addition, it's not like there's no english class, so everyone is just too shy to speak english because it just never sounds too good and even if it is, it just feels quite embarrassed to brag about that
Swede on vacation in Japan
Speaking 3 languages is quite common due to all the shitskins
I speak 3 as well but I am white so its ok
what?
Speaking english is basically a prerequisite here, any other language as well puts you over 90% of the population
I mean don't you took some classes in your high school?
I don't know if our school was being good in teaching English but all graduate of our high school is able to communicate normally with foreigners (but with sever grammar problems and weird intonation)
Why doesn't Japan expand into Africa, and teach a bunch of Africans Japanese?
Your posts are a proof our school system is not good enough
why not go to Europe instead?
>why not go to Europe instead?
how is this even relevant
Japan can easily and effectively increase their soft power by expanding their african campaign
if japan keeps on acting like an american vassal state that's all they will be
they need to act like a serious competitor of China
Does that mean it's difficult for you to live comfortably in Sweden unless you are good at that many languages?
I have done an English exam made for Japanese students, the grammar and sentence structure was totally out of whack, not natural at all
No you only need to speak Swedish but everyone knows at least 2 other languages and sometimes 3 due to having another mother tongue for being a shitskin
Most people here can't speak a foreign language for shit.
It's mostly people under 25 who can speak a bit of broken English. But don't expect much.
Tous les américains parlent français
In my part of the country Spanish is almost mandatory if you want to speak to the labourer class, or to anybody really Mexican really. They like pretending not to know English when it's convenient for them.
over 90% is monolingual here.
I thought Jap learn Korean and Chinese easily.
>Korean
Still not relevant or culturally interesting enough for many to want to learn it
>Chinese
different kanji characters and the infamous, infinitely difficult tones
Not remotely easy even for Asians
>How rare is it to see a person who can't speak any language fluently other than his/her mother tongue in your country?
In this country, the opposite holds true, since it's pretty common to encounter people who don't know a language other than Spanish. On the contrary, it's rare to find a person that is proficient in more than one language.
People here just don't give a fuck about learning a second language, and many are dumb as pricks anyway, so they wouldn't accomplish it no matter how much they wanted to do so.
The only bilingual people in this country that I can think about are Amerindians who know both their mother tongues and Spanish
Hispanics are considered a major group of bilinguals in America.
My other mother tongue has >90% bilingual speakers for at least a century. Possibly because it is not the official language of any of the four states it is natively spoken in. Namely, Aramaic.
very rare in norway.
most People here can speak Norwegian and English. and sometimes a third language.
It depends where you are in the country. Apart from Donegal, Mayo, Galway and Kerry, and parts of Cork and Waterford, it's probably 80-90% monolingual, although a lot of people do understand more Irish than they think they do when pressed.
On the west coast, most people speak at least some Irish.
en.wikipedia.org
>Japanese is the common language. Because settlers from the United States, Europe and other Pacific islands preceded ethnic Japanese residents, an English-lexified pidgin (creole), the Ogasawara Mixed Language (OML), emerged on the islands during the 19th century.[31] This was the result of Japanese being hybridised with island English, resulting in a mixed language that can still be heard.
Do Japanese ever encounter these people in media or anything?
This
Nobody lives in Bonin, they were only relevant in 1968.
ok Peter Solberg
I'm from the UK
Few people speak a second language at a competent level. Those that do are either immigrants, children of immigrants, or come from remote regions of Wales
Most white Canadians only speak English, which is fine because English is the master language anyway, there is really no need to learn another. Also, Canada is not a bilingual country no matter how hard our government tries to pander to the fucking Quebecois.
I guess some youngsters (like >me) could speak or write somewhat understandable English but that's it. Have never met anyone who can speaks French or any non-English foreign language. High-schools in my areas teach greeting-level Japanese. Ethnic minorities speak their native language along with Vietnamese (except some of those in the far north, where they speak no Vietnamese).
According to a survey in made in January 2013 by Consulta Mitofsky, only 12.9% of Mexicans aged 18 and over can speak a foreign language (92.1% of those speak English which means that 11.6% of the total Mexican population can speak English).
I am literally retarded at languages other than my own
I don't think I have ever met anyone here in Sweden who doesn't speak at least 2 languages.
Japan and french people share the love of food and the hate of anglo language
To earn the right of higher education you will have to learn at least 2 foreign languages in school.
For the basic education english is enough.
I think this is good. Monolingual people are usually very dumb anyway.
In my state about 50% of people know german, english, french and latin
But very few are fluent in the last 2
Aside from immigrants, children of immigrants and diaspora,
and according to the Mexican Intercensal Survey 2015, 6.5% can speak an indigenous language
Well, Spain could be a case but we have 10 million people being able to speak their regional language.
Something like 85% speak two languages here.
60 ish % speak 3 or more.
Pretty much this desu
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90% know english
very, very few people know a third language though, unless they're not danish.
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Americans suck at foreign languages because they learn them from 2-3 years of high school classes
>very few
Bullshit. Der er ret mange på gymnasiet, som uddanner sig i et sprogligt fag. Tallene fra giver mere mening, men jeg troede faktisk det var hojere end 23%
theyll come back (literally) to haunt them when they leave many years later
it's like a frog grabbing some spnniard or rital sentences
A lot of people I know are at least fluent in two languages because they are migrants that grew up bilingually.
White piggu go home
>theyll come back (literally) to haunt them when they leave many years later
learning japanese is incredibly hard
those who can do it deserve to come to japan
枢軸国の言語と英語しかできない。
In monolingual regions, most people only speak Spanish. Even the youth who are supposed to learn foreign languages in school. In bilingual regions, everyone is expected to speak Spanish and the regional language if you go to school there.
Most people speak at least some English as a second language. German and French as third or fourth language is also not uncommon. English, French and German are part of most middle school curriculums which sucks if you're me and shit at French.
most of the young generation can speak english and arabic well enough, even some of the older generation, albeit a bit broken
that's more than enough desu
it's 23% for "at least 3 languages other than mother tongue"
That's what Uk and France did, look at London and Paris now
fairly common
Pretty rare. Everyone can speak at least a little bit English. Older people might speak some German.
90% of people barely know our own language here. Let alone foreign ones.
Oh I see. It's pretty misleading though, since I thought it included the mother tongue. On the other hand, it'd be weird if only 89% of danes could speak Danish, even counting immigrants in.
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there are very few norwegians who talk like him
English alone puts you over around 95% of the population, your average favelafag, the rural population and even a large portion of mostly older rich and educated either don’t know english or have a very basic level
This lmao