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The website MoveHub.com is a resource for people looking to move abroad.
They've released this eye-opening infographic that shows the second language of every region across the globe. Some are rather predictable, such as Canada's knowledge of French.
But others are very telling about the histories of certain regions and how our global story has played out over hundreds of years.
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[URL]http://www.businessinsider.com/the-second-languages-in-every-part-of-the-world-infographic-2014-10[/URL]
Mirandese in Portugal?
Did they only survey old people or something?
Go English! Hoo hoo hoo hoo
Haha, i ert face finnar!
Huh? The most spoken second language is English, not Turkish.
How can you even disagree? I live here and no German learns Turkish and Turks only make up around 3% of the population.
The title and the name in the picture are misleading as hell, it says "most popular second languages" and that would be English, not Turkish. It doesn't say anywhere that it's the most popular second native languages
Turkish in Germany and Polish in England haha. I also like how 3 countries around Hungary is Hungarian, not surprising really.
I laughed at Poland and England, languages switched.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/uJnwRjU.png[/t]
This triggers me a little. :v:
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;46384312]It is the most spoken second native language, not most spoken "second language"
Then it would be english everywhere[/QUOTE]
Then I don't see how English is the second most spoken native language in all those other European countries.
Polish in the UK?
I thought it would honestly be Pakistani or something.
I would go as far as saying that Italian is our second language, given how each region has its own dialect that others can barely understand :v:
Why why why do Americans always call Irish "Gaelic", nobody here uses the term unless referring to Gaelic football or Scots Gaelic, which is a completely different language.
I was confident as hell that South Africa would have Afrikaans as their second language?
Did anyone else chuckle a little when they saw Polish as a second language in the UK?
Seriously, didn't expect it because the image was thumbnailed and I thought it said Gaelic.
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[QUOTE=Grindigo;46384320]I laughed at Poland and England, languages switched.[/QUOTE]
Ok so I wasn't the only one :v:
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;46383933][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AuEE4nX.png[/IMG]
that's actually pretty surprising[/QUOTE]
Not really, there are a very large amount of ethnic Koreans in this country. French is a pretty popular language to learn for high schoolers and college students As well.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;46384576]I was confident as hell that South Africa would have Afrikaans as their second language?[/QUOTE]
Afrikaans is one of the main languages.
was surprised to read turkish on austria too
Why do so many people want to learn French, it's a fucking horrible language
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;46384680]Did anyone else chuckle a little when they saw Polish as a second language in the UK?
Seriously, didn't expect it because the image was thumbnailed and I thought it said Gaelic.
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Keynote, Gaelic still beats out Polish in Scotland by about 1000-3000 people (57,000 vs 54,000) and welsh still beats polish by a landslide in wales IIRC.
I was honestly surprised that Turkish is spoken so much in Germany and Austria
As a Portuguese person... what the bloody hell is Mirandese? I've never actually heard it. I would have thought the second language would be Spanish or English.
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[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;46383952]Mirandese in Portugal?
Did they only survey old people or something?[/QUOTE]
Old people in the northeast, no less...
[t]http://i.imgur.com/1vzQgBD.png[/t]
I love how Britain's is Polish haha
That's gonna piss some EDL type guys off.
This map is very weird. If it's about local linguistic minorities then having English everywhere makes no sense, but if it's about people's second language then it's weird to see small, regional languages like Mirandese instead of English.
America should be practically nothing.
I know 0 people born anywhere in america that isnt cali or texas that knows decent spanish. Including myself.
Murricans think it's below them to learn a second language or something, I myself was never taught really anything about second languages properly. It was always for one semester and I couldn't remember anything afterwards.
[QUOTE=BenJammin';46385180]America should be practically nothing.
I know 0 people born anywhere in america that isnt cali or texas that knows decent spanish. Including myself.
Murricans think it's below them to learn a second language or something, I myself was never taught really anything about second languages properly. It was always for one semester and I couldn't remember anything afterwards.[/QUOTE]
Im from NY and I speak Spanish better than most Spanish people in my class, then again ive been learning it for 3 years now so there's that too
Not sure if these maps are really right. For example, I doubt majority of germans speak turkish but I am pretty sure that a majority of germans knows english.
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;46383933][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AuEE4nX.png[/IMG]
that's actually pretty surprising[/QUOTE]
It's been shown that larger minorities increase tensions and extend them for much more time.
Like you'd think Americans are more Islamophobic than the French, but the French are wildly racist, and many think it is because there are significantly more Muslims in France than in the United States.
[QUOTE=Trebgarta;46385223]Really, I can't understand this , It may be just me, but learning languages is awesome imo
Just try it, when you become adept at another language, it opens new horizons for you
I know turkish, english , I can count myself adept at german, and am looking forward to adding French and Russian on top. I learnt most of the stuff I know in English, I don't know what would I do if I stayed content with my mother tongue.
It is an ability after all. It gives great benefits, even just being able to read a book in another language is rewarding enough, and think about going abroad and speaking with native speakers. You even think differently with another language.[/QUOTE]
It's hard to understand, but it's just the lazy culture here. We think that we don't need to learn another language to get by and anyone visiting should learn english instead of us learning their language. I have to admit I am guilty of that myself. I would always get frustrated trying to learn a new language in school and then I just gave up and didn't learn anything about it, and every single one of my second language teachers in middle and highschool had no balls and let class clowns basically do anything they wanted and didn't really care, so every language class I had was one of those fuck around classes.
That doesn't apply to everyone here though, but that is how it is for the general american suburban population. You get a few smart kids who actually give a shit here and there.
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