• @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    87 months ago

    Because western imperialism from English speaking countries has been around for at least 500 years and it’s given lots of countries time to learn it.

    But also I make sure to know how to introduce myself and ask if they speak English in basically every language I interact with as to not start with it. And then I have conversational understanding of about 7 languages.

    • Vaquedoso
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      17 months ago

      I would say the English language supremacy started around 300 years ago, before that the preferred language was french

      • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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        17 months ago

        And Dutch. But let’s be honest it was a revolving door of Western Europe and they all new each other.