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20674105

Anonymous Wed Jul 13 22:04:40 2022 No.20674105 [Reply] [Original]

>Americans can only read one language

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 13 22:06:11 2022 No.20674108 >>20674105 Not true I can read American and English mostly.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 13 22:06:15 2022 No.20674109 Spanish?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 00:15:48 2022 No.20674527 >>20674105 >He thinks Americans can read English

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 00:16:30 2022 No.20674529 >>20674105 Yeah the only language that matters.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 00:21:59 2022 No.20674554 >>20674105 I can read Portuguese well enough to talk with brasileiras

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 00:23:06 2022 No.20674557 >Americans can only read one language >Americans literally just the same for all anglos

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 02:51:45 2022 No.20675060 >>20674105 Not all of us.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 03:42:35 2022 No.20675258 >>20674529 Your entire civilization is underpinned by non-English texts.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 04:43:38 2022 No.20675450 >>20674105 I sleep soundly every night knowing that billions of people are dreaming in the language of my ancestors and not their own.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 04:48:18 2022 No.20675464 Not true I can read the first chapter of a Spanish translation of Moby-Dick (for children). Nevermind that I looked up 100 words in the span of three pages.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 07:41:32 2022 No.20675939 >>20674105 Unfortunately applies to a lot more than just the US. Being born in a monolingual country is a curse.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 07:42:42 2022 No.20675944 >>20674105 Ebonics right

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 07:47:23 2022 No.20675957 >>20674105 It’s sad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 07:49:12 2022 No.20675959 File: 298 KB, 500x375, 1565178003056.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20674105 >Americans can read

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 07:49:31 2022 No.20675960 >>20675450 Imagine being this much of a loser

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 07:54:01 2022 No.20675974 >>20675258 Who cares. Eat a bullet, Hans

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 11:43:27 2022 No.20676507 File: 993 KB, 1000x1000, le-comte-de-monte-cristo-tea-9782346135943_0-2716173410.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I been working on learning french with picrel, along with film exposure and duolingo. Think it's doable bros?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 11:46:48 2022 No.20676519 >>20676507 I don't think so, you need a teacher.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 11:52:02 2022 No.20676532 >>20674109 Don't they learn spanish or french?

>>	Sage Thu Jul 14 13:44:48 2022 No.20676859 Low effort off topic thread. Get saged and reported.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 14:05:59 2022 No.20676935 File: 6 KB, 166x250, 1610157826823s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20676859 >Low effort off topic thread. Get saged and reported.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 14:16:08 2022 No.20676971 >>20674105 Who is that in the pic?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 14:43:07 2022 No.20677066 >>20676971 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPmNM0IF7Y&t=60s

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 14:48:28 2022 No.20677072 >>20677066 LOL

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 15:59:52 2022 No.20677339 File: 283 KB, 432x420, 228688130.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20674105 >Only need to

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 16:02:42 2022 No.20677349 >>20676971 your mom

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 16:19:24 2022 No.20677408 >>20674529 Based. If you're a native speaker of English you won the language lottery--fags have to cope that being multilingual is on the same level as mastering English.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 17:51:05 2022 No.20677783 >>20676507 Honestly Duolingo sucks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 17:52:14 2022 No.20677785 >>20676519 I've learned Esperanto and Japanese pretty alright on my own, so it's definitely possible. I've taken a semester of Japanese at uni since, but I had enough self-study to test in at the 300 level.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 17:55:23 2022 No.20677797 >>20677408 Yes, being a native English speaker is a huge unearned privilege.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 21:37:55 2022 No.20678724 File: 2 KB, 108x124, 1630095660343s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20677408 >Based. If you're a native speaker of English you won the language lottery--fags have to cope that being multilingual is on the same level as mastering English.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 21:42:53 2022 No.20678751 >>20677408 Being a native speaker does not mean you are mastering the language

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 22:09:52 2022 No.20678871 >>20674554 Baseado

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 14 23:07:42 2022 No.20679065 >>20674105 The mental gymnastics we anglos go through to justify our monolingualism are insane. Even 80iq peasants in 3rd world countries can learn other languages and you're telling me you can't learn French or whatever kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 00:27:26 2022 No.20679391 >>20674105 >>Americans can only read one language And the best part is, is that they aren't even literate or can speak English. America is a failed state.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 00:36:01 2022 No.20679428 >>20679065 who the fuck cares about the french? english is the only european language worth learning. beyond that, chinese might be useful for commerce.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 00:42:56 2022 No.20679455 >>20679428 bugman mindset

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 00:49:00 2022 No.20679479 >>20679455 did i upset the frog?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 00:51:41 2022 No.20679491 >>20674105 "PETRO DOLLAR" read that..