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Anonymous
i was sitting next to some americans on the train to amsterdam, they were kinda cool but they could all speak spanish wtf ?ç!

i thought american people only knew how to speak english (and most of them barely)?
>> Anonymous
Because of all the illegals, more people are becoming bi-lingual. I wouldn't mind it, if it weren't for the illegal part.
>> Anonymous
>>1069551
Dear lord, that .gif chart is true.

Also, there are lots of illegal immigrants in the U.S., so we just go ahead and learn spanish to yell at the wet-backs to do a better job at cutting their lawn.

Also, I'm awesome.
>> Anonymous
>>1069551
Nobody likes Illegals...We want them dead. But everybody loves Mexicans...Especially the Mexican women. But if they are illegal beaners then they need to be shot!!!
Viva Lou Dobbs. Viva la Revolution. Yo Quero Taco Bell!

Your right about us having to learn Spanish. We have to press one for english when we make a phone call.
>> Anonymous
>>1069551
Most americans never leave the country. The ones that do are more likely to be multilingual.
>> Anonymous
>>1069759

Basically, although that is unusual for them to all be able to speak Spanish...
>> Anonymous
>>1069739Yeah Mexican women are great until they hit twenty. Then they put on two hundred pounds overnight. ...And they still try to squeeze into their old wardrobe. From what I've seen, Cuban girls age better.

>>1069813That depends on where they're from. Californians and Floridians can hardly get by without knowing at least some Spanish. Ever been to Miami?
>> Anonymous
Yea its strange. I took a couple of French classes in highschool and didn't learn anything. Mostly because the teachers were fucking idots. But I spend a few weeks each year in the caribian and now I can almost fluently speak spainish. Which is good because everytime my new roomates wants to say something over the phone to his girlfriend that he doesn't want me to hear he says it in spainish. lets just say he basically begs for sex.
>> Anonymous
There is only North and South America. So no, it's not unusual to here americans speak spanish.
Some speak Portuguese, if they are from Brazil.
>> Anonymous
>>1069551
This is why UKfags are so fucking annoying. You hate Americans cause you think we are stupid, but its kinda stupid to be surprised some of us know a different language. Fucking UKfags are just as bad as American patriot redneck fucks

FUCK IM SO ANGRY GAH
>> Anonymous
Most people who can speak Spanish are from the south west US, where it is more necessary to speak it. Most Americans that speak another language teach them selfs, which is much harder to do, especially after childhood. Some want to learn other languages, but have too much trouble, some just don't give a shit. Either way the school system doesn't teach it correctly. This is why most don't speak any other languages. As for barely speaking proper English, where not all dumb, just most of us. My self included, not going to lie, after all, I'm on /b/.
>> Anonymous
what were YOU doing in amsterdam?
>> Anonymous !TRiPFAG.zo
i can speak japanese! dasu dasu!
>> Anonymous
This thread is great!
>>1070240
So right about the school system...but that's the point!!!
They try to keep us stupid so they can walk all over us. The Gubment that is. They don't want us having a brain to see through their BS. If we found out what they were up to we'd revolt. We're too independent that's our curse and our blessing.
>> Anonymous
>>1070259
too true
>> Anonymous
>As for barely speaking proper English, where not all dumb
>where not all dumb
>where
>> Anonymous
>>1069551

If I'm correct, and I think I may very well be, this chart also correlates with the massive expansion of fast-food restaurants in this shit-hole of a country. We're getting more and more lazy, and as a result, fatter and fatter. That'll have to change soon. Especially once our dollar goes even deeper into the shitter than it already has. Love those capitalists....
>> Anonymous
You have to speak a foreign language to graduate college in the US. So a lot of Americans do speak a second language, its just they never have the chance to use it since most the world speaks english. So people tend to start to forget the language, I myself had 5 years of Spanish, but since I never really ever used it I have forgot a lot of it.
>> Anonymous
in southern california. it helps because their are alot of mexican immigrants.
>> Anonymous
>>1070527
you dont have to learn another language to graduate from college in the US...
>> Anonymous
>>1070527
>>You have to speak a foreign language to graduate college in the US.

That's entirely up to the university, your specific major being a large factor. I, being a music major, need exactly zero foreign language classes to graduate.

The only foreign language of any use to 95% of Americans is Spanish, but, honestly, who the fuck would want to learn that shit language? And unlike in Europe, you can travel thousands of miles across the US and not hear anything but English. Where it might be helpful for someone living in southern France to know Italian, or someone in Germany to know English, in the US there's just no need.
>> Anonymous
>>1070628
and what give you a basis to justify a language as shit?
english and spanish share similar origins, even if english is more influenced by germanic languages
>> Porn story sites? Anonymous
English is the universal language. Every country speaks it, every country teaches it. So the British and Americans get it easy, since it's our native language. THAT'S why most americans don't learn a second language. There's simply no need. Plus think about it, what language do you learn once you know the main one? With every other country they learn their language AND english. But we START with english. And so there simply isn't a mass-used language to learn beside it. Not sure if brits learn second languages but if they did it makes sense, they live in europe. A coalition of differant countries that all speak differant languages. America is pretty much alone with it's english speaking canadian neighbor and mexican speaking shoe of a neighbor.
>> Anonymous
>>1070648

I think Spanish is ugly. I assume English is also ugly, but can't tell since I speak it.
>> Anonymous
ITT: Americans justify being to stupid to learn other languages
>> Anonymous
>>1070660

>>ITT: Americans justify being to stupid to learn other languages
>>justify being to stupid
>>to stupid
>> TOKKA
I failed French and Spanish respectively in middle school and high school taking them in summer school and getting a B. I did 5 years of latin in catholic school from 1st to 5th grade. I did poorly in those too.

I have been told that when i was in class I was either the worse french/spanish/latin student to the point one french teacher said I was worse french speaking student she had since a deaf child two years before she had me.

But for strange reasons unbenonced to me when i'm put into situations like say a high school trip to mexico, looking up old relgious documents for a college research paper in comparitive relgions, taking a family trip to france and push comes to shove i can easily understand and speak in casual Spanish and French and read and comprehend Latin.

I think one thing though you have to look at is american's who did not travel out of the states frequently didn't really have to speak anything but english.

It's only now as 10% and fastly growing population of the USA is becoming 1st generation US citizens is it that we have such a boom in the need and development of a bilingual nation.

I'm for fuck sake put Europe's land on top of the USA you only take up 1/3 if that of what we take up and you have over 30 languages that are commonly spoken if not the additional 20 or 30 spoken only in remote towns or villages around all of southern and eastern europe.
>> Anonymous
>>1070666
He's american.
>> Anonymous
If there were a need to learn other languages, we would. I know korean, latin, and slovene besides english, so ???? ??? ?? ?? ? ??? ????
>> Anonemouse
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>>1070682
"I failed French and Spanish respectively"

You're fuckin pathetic at English too:"unbenonced"?

I won't even begin to pick apart your grammar.

-Sincerely,
English Police
>> Anonymous
>>1069551
They people you probably saw were either from California or Florida. In those two states it's almost nessesary to learn Spanish in order to simple shit like order food or shop or whatever because the immigrants (illegal and legal) are taking up all the jobs for lower pay. I live in Napa, California in the central of the state and yet it's almost like "Newer Mexico".
>> Anonymous
>>1070257
its ??, dumb fuck get it right
>> Anonymous
EAT MAH SHIT!
>> Anonymous
>>1070802
Houston is just as bad with Spanish. In my area (which used to have like 35320985205 billion English White Trash and Old White people in the 80s) more and more adverts are going up in spanish. Shoot, Pepsi bottles in this area are marked "Pepsi si" wtf.

What sucks even worse is I now live next door to a stupid Tejano Party rental place. EVery weekend I get to listen to the same 'awesome' Mexican song over and over! OH BOY. And to think my neighbors robbed the old lady that used to live there, bought her house when she sold it (cuz of being robbed) and then burned it down to build this awesome party house! YAY.
>> Anonymous
>>1070831
>>1070257

you're both fags. stfu
>> Anonymous
this thread is trolls of trolls of trolls.

i hate you all so much.
>> Anonymous
it's pretty effin tits that colorado is keeping at a lighter weight though. My props to CO.
>> Anonymous
>>1070689
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>> Anonymous
If you'll notice that you can argue to a certain degree that the states leading this trend are states that are rural, for the most part. It really has to more to do with location that practicality. When I lived in Europe, the first thing I noticed is that in most of the countries, you have to fucking walk nearly everywhere. In America, the same point A to B might be literally 120 miles away. Things just don't work the same way in the United States. Practicality will always take precedence over anything else. No one in hell is going to bike for four hours to get to work.
>> Anonymous
>>1069582
>>1069557
A sign of the end.
>> Anonymous
Watching this chart makes me proud to be a Coloradan.
>> Anonymous
>>1070929
yeah thats why people here in texas are so fat, everything is so fucking far from everything else that you pretty much have to drive

like if somebody is walking on the sidewalk, they're either exercising or some kid who doesn't have a car. no exceptions.