• Ziglin@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      What’s your definition of first/second language if you grow up bilingual?

      The majority of English speakers aren’t from the US, though the US does have the most English speakers. Important distinction to make!

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      I’d just like to mention that plenty of ESL users speak English more than their native, and that the country with the most people who use English for interacting with the Internet, it’s probably India. Indians communicate to a lot of their compatriots in English, since they are also an ex-British colony, and have a large variety of native languages.

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      That sounds like America’s problem. Big portion of western eu, especially non-boomer and non-french, comprehend English very well, so I dunno why you’d just dismiss it in a post about us-defaultism when almost everything is text based