What Country Are You In?

[your mother]

cebrian said:
South America, and central america, and mexico (where i am from and actually in northamerica) all speak english as their second language, you know, one of the advantages (if not the only one) if living in a third world country is that you get bilingual. I bet anyone in the forums that there are more bilingual people in mexico, central and southamerica than there are in the United States (and im talking about people that are acctually from the USA and not people with other origins.

Im going to get flammed for my next comment, but the country with the highest levels of ignorance is the USA. And i'm not talking about levels of literacy, but about level of awareness of culture and other people/places and not just the me, me, me, thinking. What I find the most infuriating is the fact that most people up there supported the war on Iraq... speaking about ignorance.

Most South American countries do speak English as a second language, but normally their spoken English is lacking and their written English skils are a far cry from yours (yours being good).

But yeah, any South American posting here is by default bilingual - at the very least. Europe, however, really surprises me. There's quite a few Europeans in the small touristy island where I live and it's funny, but the English (UK) folks by and large can only speak English. Other European nationalities, on the other hand, are bilingual, trilingual, and it's not uncommon to find a couple of polyglots. Free border transit and a mosaic of languages compressed in such a small area will do that to people.