@nemoserves@marls_lena@Wolfgang18842 Lame excuse. It's not the end of the world to admit you were wrong. If it's such a problem that people don't speak English maybe YOU should stay in your hometown. I'm sure your presence won't be missed.
@nemoserves@marls_lena@Wolfgang18842 Lingua franca is a common language. It doesn’t necessarily connote worldwide application. I didn’t mention national language either you dumb fuck I said your environment.
@Wolfgang18842@nemoserves@marls_lena I'm well aware. It's laughable how entitled they are thinking they own the world when the USA is quite literally a third world country with a Gucci belt.
@nemoserves@marls_lena@Wolfgang18842 See now that's just pure ignorance. English may be the lingua franca relative to your environment but not for everyone in the world. I'd even argue Spanish is useful to you as an American since there are millions of Spanish speakers in the US.
@nemoserves@marls_lena@Wolfgang18842 You must be extremely unlucky if you had this much trouble. Then again there's the argument that Spanish has more native speakers than English so why expect Spaniards to learn English when you could just as easily learn Spanish?
@nemoserves@marls_lena@Wolfgang18842 Then where in France and Spain are you going? I mean fair enough the French are snobs but I’ve never had any problems in Spain and I lived there for a year.
@nemoserves@marls_lena@Wolfgang18842 Are you talking about the general public in those countries? I cannot say I have ever thought the English proficiency was high in Asia or Africa unless it was from hotel staff or in obvious tourist areas.
@nemoserves@marls_lena@Wolfgang18842 Brother this makes no sense. You're talking about Europeans primarily? So if Asians/Africans or what not don't speak English it doesn't matter? Why is it specifically Europeans?