Midaja Wrote:And dont be so sure about every European speaking English... Im always surprised how many german people just dont care about English and as a result how many of them are hardly able to communicate on a higher level then "hello, my name is xyz, how are you?".
It's definitely a cultural thing that doesn't spread ALL over Europe, yes. I've been told by a couple European friends that both France and Germany have a more 'proud' culture (overall, not everyone obviously believes this) in that they don't really believe any language but their own is 'required.' Like American culture in that respect, where instead of hearing that why someone doesn't know anything except English is "because they have no need for it," instead you hear things like "everyone should speak our language because we're so influential in the world."
I wish that I spoke like... an insane number of languages though... like, 30 languages. Maybe one day I'll try and start working on that.
It's very cool to me though how much you can learn about a culture though by learning it's language. For example, in Danish the term "Hygge" means... well, it's really HARD to translate. It's like, a cozy feeling... at home... with family... or just comfortable, warm, content, and... tranquil. But even with me explaining it like that, it's still hard to translate, because it's just a word that NO other language has to describe a specific feeling/occurrence. It says a lot about their culture that they have such a word.
All different countries have stuff like that. It's cool to me, and it's also interesting when I try to find certain American terms that no other country seems to have words for.
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