You speak English because it is the only language you know.
I speak English because it is the only language you know.
We are not the same.
Sidenote, but as a Finn it’s always so fun to read or hear Estonian. Very often I can get at least the gist of what’s being said, and with this phrase I was like 75% sure of what it meant (the 25% comes from the fact that many Estonian words look familiar but actually mean something completely different than what I’d expect.) Finnic languages are pretty rare with like 7 million speakers total, so getting this “oh this language sounds so familiar” feeling isn’t exactly common for us.
Somebody actually did a fun video on this where a Finn and an Estonian tried to guess what the other was saying.
Rausch*
Empfehle den zweiten Teil. Die Story ist echt gut und Michaela spielt den Flohwalzer auf nem Klavier.
People in the US: Can speak English, sometimes Spanish
People in Germany: Can speak German, had Spanish & French in school, can understand most of dutch natively and have learned some Turkish from their friends
You forgot that they have English in school, too, sometimes starting in first grade already.
had Spanish & French in school
Most of the German tourists I see either didn’t or did their damnest to not learn :_)
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
Hätten sie lieber die Spanische Inquisition?
One of my favorite things about Reddit was that whenever two Germans found each other in a comment section they would always start a long reply chain in German. I always thought it was cute.
