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[-] eddietrax@dmv.social 117 points 1 year ago

Ahh yes the blanket shit on Americans post.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Not sure why their are doing it, could of made fun of anyone.

[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 72 points 1 year ago

Make a joke about the British, they're like "Yeah we do drink a lot of tea did a lot of imperialism, and our food sucks"

Make a joke about the French, and they're like "ho ho, we are rude and love wine non?"

Make a joke about the Italians, and they're like "Ay, we do love a pizza, and can't fight a war!"

Make a joke about Americans, and there's always the "WHY DO YOU GUYS MAKE FUN OF US! NO FAIR! WHY DO PEOPLE THINK ITS FUNNY TO HATE US?!?"

[-] rosenjcb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I've experienced only the opposite. Americans love self deprecating humor but Yuros will literally cry about you "abusing my country" if you say one negative thing.

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[-] DaBabyAteMaDingo@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourselves. As a Latino born from Mexican immigrants, I speak English and Spanish poorly 😢

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[-] andresil@lemm.ee 60 points 1 year ago

Americans have trouble with any accent that isn't the blandest, nails on chalkboard accent.

Once had one ask me if I was speaking English when I spoke to him (for context I am Irish, the north bit)

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah, it's just the Americans that don't understand you. Sure...

[-] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

Bland and nails on chalkboard? That's like the opposite of bland. Not great, but definitely not bland. Bland is blunt and flat. Nails on chalkboard is shrill, sharp, and grating. I just don't understand how you can believe both at the same time.

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[-] Gormadt 59 points 1 year ago

My 3 favorite experiences with language as an American:

(1) My Jamaican coworker who I couldn't understand for the life of me and my Ukrainian coworker who my Jamaican couldn't understand at all, the Ukrainian coworker understood the Jamaican coworker just fine though and I understood my Ukrainian coworker just fine. Basically it turns into a fun game of telephone whenever we need to talk.

(2) My former coworker from Haiti who no one but the hiring manager and I could understand, the best part about this is that I didn't know he had an accent. I just didn't hear it somehow. He was a great guy, he went back home a few years ago when his mother passed. Got stuck due to the pandemic and never came back to the company. I hope he's doing well.

(3) My former coworker from Guatemala insisting English wasn't my first language as to him it sounded like English was my second language at best. I've been working on it since then. I still suck at it.

[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year ago

Um, plenty of Europeans speak 3 or more languages. Native language, language of the country you're living in, and English.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

German, Bavarian and English 😁

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[-] magicalbeast69@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago

This. I think european and asian should be swapped in this meme. I think its rarer to see asian speak 3 languages than seeing european speak 3 languages

[-] camillaSinensis@reddthat.com 24 points 1 year ago

Surely that depends on where in Asia you're looking at as well? On average, the number of languages people speak is quite different between, say, India and Japan. Or Switzerland vs Romania in Europe.

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[-] Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us 46 points 1 year ago

Oh look, it's the same old reposted garbage meme that I have seen on Reddit hundreds of times.

[-] el_bhm@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh look, it's the same old reposted garbage comment that I have seen on Reddit hundreds of times.

[-] Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us 20 points 1 year ago

Oh look, it's the same old comment complaining about another comment that I have seen on Reddit hundreds of times.

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[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago

Excuse me, but as an American I take offense to this meme. I speak 4 languages, English, Southern, Bostonian, and Spanish /s

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[-] Rengoku@lemmy.today 33 points 1 year ago
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[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Well, as an Indian with a love for anime, I speak 3 languages and am learning a 4th (Japanese).

मुळात माझी मातृभाषा मराठी आहे. आणि मी बरीच वर्ष महाराष्ट्रातच राहिलीय...

लेकिन school और दोस्तों के वजह से हिंदी भी बोल लेता है. और तो और, इन दोनो की लिपी एक जैसी ही होने के कारण पढणे मे भी दिक्कत नही आति.

わたしはあにめがすきですから、にほんごをべんきょうおします。今は、にほんごのうりょうくしけんのN5できました。今年の12月にN4できますよ。

And I plan on learning more soon 🙃.

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[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only good thing that the Americanization brought is, that, except the French, the world can communicate with each other in English.

[-] superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Even if the French could communicate in English, would anyone want to have a conversation with a Frenchman?

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[-] ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know you are joking but based on my purely anecdotal personal experience, the French (at least in Paris) can now speak and are willing to speak in English much more than a few decades back.

The first time I went to France, almost 25 years back, I had a rough time communicating at restaurants or even buying tickets at the Paris metro stations. Not sure if the latter was an ability or willingness issue because even holding up two fingers and saying "two tickets" was apparently indecipherable. Had to muster my school days French and say "deux billets" to produce instant results.

Edit: And no, the two fingers I was holding up were not the middle finger of each hand :P

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[-] charonn0@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll never understand this attitude that Europeans have towards Americans. I thought we were friends.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

North Americans and Europeans are only friends when someone from a different continent is in the room.

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[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

Many Americans actually are bilingual or are studying another language to become bilingual.

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[-] jungekatz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Many indians speak 4+ languages easily , and we dont even notice that 😅

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago
[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Last I checked.

Fun fact: when you say "Asian" to an American, their first thought is East or Southeast Asia, but a British person's primary association with "Asianness", for lack of a better term, is India and Pakistan.

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[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

damn, bro. It's almost like America is bigger than all of Europe and shares one language, and it's hard to become fluent in a language when there's no one to speak it with. If you are asian or european you can hop in the car or on a train to practice your french or vietnamese, but unless you're practicing Spanish or some specific language kept in your area(Polish in Chicago, Pennsylvania Dutch, German in some parts of Wisconsin) you have no way to practice.

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Include anglo Canadians in there too!

Complaining about bilingual (english + french) positions in the public service is a favorite hobby of anglo public servants, as if the french ones didn't need to learn a second language to get the job... Heck, it's not rare to see/hear one argue that french Canadians should just start speaking english and stop bothering them about their "unique culture"...

But hey, it's not racism... Or so they say 🤷

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[-] cambriakilgannon@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Americans: "I Don't think about you guys at all."

[-] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Some of my collegemates know 6 languages(India)

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[-] iterable@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Hey we speak two languages...English and Bad english....

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[-] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

German here, speaking english fluently, enough french to get everything done while on vacation in France or Wallony and learning Japanese atm.

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[-] MrSlicer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The nice thing about language is, if enough people are wrong they eventually become right.

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