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Re:Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca... by angry_octet on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:36PM (#27230194)
Less inclined, or with less incentive, and fewer opportunities? Whereas English is omnipresent. Finding good teachers is always tough in a monolingual environment. I'm reminded of visiting China in the 2000s, many Chinese languages, rarely foreign languages, but a hunger to learn English from native speakers.
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Re:Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca... by Kreotiko on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:43AM (#27233900)
I believe it to be a cultural thing. Sure, you don’t necessarily have the incentive to learn a language for work but the education system does not promote it either. I know a lot mainland European who speak languages other than English just out of interest for other cultures with no real use in their daily job.
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