Current Events > how the fuck are some people not bilingual at all?

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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 6:44:42 PM
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in 2020 there is no reason to only know one language.. that's such a narrow way to live. it isn't that hard to learn at least cursory level skills in another language

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PowerOats
05/03/20 6:45:05 PM
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Teach me TC
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trappedunderice
05/03/20 6:45:56 PM
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Irony
05/03/20 6:46:41 PM
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There's also no reason to learn a second language if you aren't leaving your country.

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ApherosyLove
05/03/20 6:47:33 PM
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I like to use the excuse that I doubled down on English to get my degree to justify as to why I don't speak a second language >_>

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gamer167
05/03/20 6:49:05 PM
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What useless second language do you know?
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Solid Snake07
05/03/20 6:50:53 PM
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The vast majority of people have zero practical use for knowing a second language.

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Xanathar
05/03/20 6:51:49 PM
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I speak fluent incel
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Lord_Shadow
05/03/20 6:52:57 PM
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I know English the Language of trade why would I bother learning a lesser language.

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Choco
05/03/20 6:53:14 PM
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Irony posted...
There's also no reason to learn a second language if you aren't leaving your country.

this is false in tons of places

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Lonestar2000
05/03/20 6:53:33 PM
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Hey TC, why aren't you trolling on your TRICKFINGER account?

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Flockaveli
05/03/20 6:53:47 PM
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How does anyone live in a big city in America and not try to learn Spanish.

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TheLastHero
05/03/20 6:53:47 PM
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You're not bilingual until you can fluently communicate in a second language with minimal grammatical errors. Which is going to take you years of constant practice and commitment
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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 6:53:48 PM
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imagine being so useless that you dont do things unless you "need to"

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Choco
05/03/20 6:53:52 PM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
The vast majority of people have zero practical use for knowing a second language.
this is also blatantly false

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Yadoken
05/03/20 6:53:58 PM
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I know ,right TC, people come to live in America for decades and still don't bother to learn the language.

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Turbam
05/03/20 6:54:07 PM
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I've been trying to learn Japanese so I can play weeb trash from the 90s

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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 6:54:26 PM
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Flockaveli posted...
How does anyone live in a big city in America and not try to learn Spanish.
this.

Lonestar2000 posted...
Hey TC, why aren't you trolling on your TRICKFINGER account?
honestly I feel like you all arent worthy of my main account.

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TheLastHero
05/03/20 6:54:58 PM
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Yadoken posted...
I know ,right TC, people come to live in America for decades and still don't bother to learn the language.


Yeah why don't more people speak American?
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kirbymuncher
05/03/20 6:55:15 PM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
The vast majority of people have zero practical use for knowing a second language.
the vast majority have zero practical use for anything they do, tbh. myself included <_<

Choco posted...
this is false in tons of places
considering how english sorta became the defacto language of the internet and computers in general, I feel like this is false pretty much anywhere where the first language isn't english

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Lord_Shadow
05/03/20 6:55:54 PM
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The only people who need to learn a second Language are those who don't know English. They need to learn English.

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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 6:56:16 PM
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ApherosyLove posted...
I like to use the excuse that I doubled down on English to get my degree to justify as to why I don't speak a second language >_>
lol, it's funny though because learning a s2nd language helped with my writing a lot.

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TheLastHero
05/03/20 6:56:47 PM
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The people saying it's not practical have clearly never worked customer service
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Dark_SilverX
05/03/20 6:57:31 PM
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Found this on the Rap & HipHop board. It got a nice beat.

https://audiomack.com/song/ben93-1/god-of-entirety-diss-god-of-loser

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Choco
05/03/20 6:58:33 PM
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Lord_Shadow posted...
The only people who need to learn a second Language are those who don't know English. They need to learn English.
people who only know english are really embarrassingly ignorant though and it's annoying how the internet is filled with them. so in summation i would say that everyone should learn a 2nd language.

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Irony
05/03/20 6:58:34 PM
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Choco posted...
this is false in tons of places
Citation needed

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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 6:58:52 PM
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Dark_SilverX posted...
Found this on the Rap & HipHop board. It got a nice beat.

https://audiomack.com/song/ben93-1/god-of-entirety-diss-god-of-loser
the reply got a better beat.
https://soundcloud.com/thatmancrisco/who-even-are-yu/s-108lMpUHGRA

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Turbam
05/03/20 6:58:59 PM
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Dark_SilverX posted...
Found this on the Rap & HipHop board. It got a nice beat.

https://audiomack.com/song/ben93-1/god-of-entirety-diss-god-of-loser
lmao what the fuck?

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Southernfatman
05/03/20 6:59:53 PM
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I'd love to learn Spanish or another language, but never had the time or means to like many others. Don't know why that's unacceptable to some people.

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bluezero
05/03/20 7:00:21 PM
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God_Of_Entirety posted...
that's such a narrow way to live
lol

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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 7:00:37 PM
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Southernfatman posted...
I'd love to learn Spanish or another language, but never had the time or means to like many others. Don't know why that's unacceptable to some people.
duolingo

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Choco
05/03/20 7:00:45 PM
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Irony posted...
Citation needed
like 97% of what i do in life wouldn't be possible if i didn't know english.

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KeeperOfShadows
05/03/20 7:00:48 PM
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The day I have a legitimate reason to learn another language, I will. It's not the kind of thing I want to go through just to say I did it, ya know.

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xMythic
05/03/20 7:00:55 PM
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I somehow made it through high school without learning a foreign language, which is a requirement to graduate. I regret it now. I should have at least learned Spanish.

Last December I spent two weeks in Costa Rica, couldn't communicate with the nice local people I met. Had to rely on a translator the entire time. I've been using Duolingo for the past few weeks. It's working out well, I'm catching on quick. I hope to be not completely clueless when I go back.

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dib153
05/03/20 7:01:02 PM
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Iay ancay eakspay igpay atinlay

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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 7:01:41 PM
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KeeperOfShadows posted...
It's not the kind of thing I want to go through just to say I did it, ya know.
that's... not why you do it

xMythic posted...
I somehow made it through high school without learning a foreign language, which is a requirement to graduate. I regret it now. I should have at least learned Spanish.

Last December I spent two weeks in Costa Rica, couldn't communicate with the nice local people I met. Had to rely on a translator the entire time. I've been using Duolingo for the past few weeks. It's working out well, I'm catching on quick. I hope to be not completely clueless when I go back.
motivation 100

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Turbam
05/03/20 7:02:32 PM
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xMythic posted...
I somehow made it through high school without learning a foreign language, which is a requirement to graduate. I regret it now. I should have at least learned Spanish.

Last December I spent two weeks in Costa Rica, couldn't communicate with the nice local people I met. Had to rely on a translator the entire time. I've been using Duolingo for the past few weeks. It's working out well, I'm catching on quick. I hope to be not completely clueless when I go back.
High school Spanish was so fucking worthless for me.
All they taught me was how to conjugate verbs. Not what the verbs meant, just how to conjugate them.

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Akagami_Shanks
05/03/20 7:03:08 PM
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bilingual meaning you can fluently speak another language. That takes years and lots of practice. Most people don't have a need to ever speak anything other than their native language unless they're moving to a different country.

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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 7:03:10 PM
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Turbam posted...
High school Spanish was so fucking worthless for me.
All they taught me was how to conjugate verbs. Not what the verbs meant, just how to conjugate them.
lol

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KStateKing17
05/03/20 7:03:14 PM
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Yadoken posted...
I know ,right TC, people come to live in America for decades and still don't bother to learn the language.
Including the people that were born here.
"There" "Their" and "They're" should not still be a struggle by the time you get to high school.

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Choco
05/03/20 7:03:18 PM
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Turbam posted...
High school Spanish was so fucking worthless for me.
All they taught me was how to conjugate verbs. Not what the verbs meant, just how to conjugate them.
XD

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REMercsChamp
05/03/20 7:03:45 PM
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I can speak that old middle ages language they wrote Shakespeare in

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God_Of_Entirety
05/03/20 7:04:08 PM
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Akagami_Shanks posted...
Most people don't have a need to ever speak anything other than their native language unless they're moving to a different country.
no shit. not the point of the thread

imagine only doing things in life because you "need" to do them.


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Choco
05/03/20 7:04:10 PM
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Captain_Qwark posted...
I live in the midwest and every town within an hour of me is 95% white.
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KeeperOfShadows
05/03/20 7:05:18 PM
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God_Of_Entirety posted...
that's... not why you do it
It would be for me. I don't know a single person irl who doesn't at least understand English, and with me having zero desire to travel, I doubt I'll be meeting anyone anytime soon.

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Solid Snake07
05/03/20 7:05:45 PM
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Choco posted...
this is also blatantly false


No it definitly isn't. Most people speak the same language as 90+% of the people who they live near and interact with on a daily basis.

That's not to say there's no benefit to learning a second language. But that's highly dependent on the language you're learning and why you're learning it. I was semi fluent in French as a teenager, which was completly useless in retrospect. I live somewhere with very few french speaking people and have only been to France once. So I never really used it and it's largely forgotten at this point. Spanish probably would have been much more useful.

Either way, most people can get by their entire life with little to no issue only speaking one language. Especially if that language is english, chinese, or spanish.

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Southernfatman
05/03/20 7:06:26 PM
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God_Of_Entirety posted...
duolingo

Is it that good?

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monkmith
05/03/20 7:06:30 PM
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shit schools, and the fact that google translate is a thing.

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Feline_Heart
05/03/20 7:06:47 PM
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I know the basics of Spanish and French but I've never been able to reach the next level

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