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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]EU Kids end HS being fluent in at least three languages. Education counts.[/quote]

That's completely due to geography and necessity. If you drive 5 hours from France, you have the possibility of driving through 4 different countries speaking 4 different languages. This is not the case in the USA where you can drive 2000 miles and everyone still speaks English (for the most part).[/quote]

What four countries do you think you're driving through from France?  Is that just your way of justifying being monolingual?  You don't pick up another language at a gas station on your way, you know.

The part of Switzerland that borders France speaks...guess what, French.  The part of Belgium that borders France, speaks....guess what, French.  The French in fact are pretty well known for being just like Americans--monolingual.

The farther north you go, the better their language ability.  The Dutch, Germans, Danes, Swedes, etc all speak more than one language well.  The rest, not so much.[/quote]

You proved the PP’s point. Because most Europeans countries are small compared to the big three in North America you have a necessity to learn multiple languages in bordering countries. With the exception of Quebec, Canadians speak English. And many Americans that live near the southern border get by on rudimentary Spanish if they didn’t come from a hispanic  family to start. There’s no necessity to learn multiple languages in the US due to this reason unless you conduct a lot of international business.[/quote]

And of course there are a lot of native Canadians that speak their ancestral language in the Yukon, Nunavut, etc[/quote]

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