06-08-2016, 02:39 PM
(06-06-2016, 09:43 AM)Midwest Spy Wrote: To Donovan's point about multi-lingual kids, I remember meeting a Norwegian 18 year old young woman when I first arrived there, and she spoke Norwegian, Danish & Swedish (ok, pretty similar), plus German, English and Italian.
She was drop dead beautiful to boot.
It's considered pretty normal by most Europeans to be able to converse well in at least two or three languages, there are simply too many cultures all mixed together there to do otherwise. Only the French are considered as big a group of assholes over the language issue, but it's not that they CAN't speak other languages they just don't want to. We are the only ones willfully and proudly stupid.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.