So, exactly how it works in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesian.
They speak native local language from their city, other two from other islands, English for international language, sometimes Chinese, Malay, Arabic, Korean, or Japanese. Not to forget the national language, Indonesian.
Learning 3+ languages sounds like a lot of work. Colonizing the entire world so that you never have to learn a second language seems like the smarter move if you ask me 🧐
Heck, the Javanese language (spoken by a huge fraction of Indonesian) has 3 sub languages depending who you’re talking with (your friend, your parents, or a person with much higher social standing than you). To outsiders, that’s effectively 3 languages you’ll have to cream into your head (because the sub languages have different set of vocabularies), while the native themselves consider it one language.
So, exactly how it works in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesian.
They speak native local language from their city, other two from other islands, English for international language, sometimes Chinese, Malay, Arabic, Korean, or Japanese. Not to forget the national language, Indonesian.
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They don’t think it’s normal, it’s all that’s necessary. English is the lingua franca
The incentive to learn a language is in software, not human.
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Learning 3+ languages sounds like a lot of work. Colonizing the entire world so that you never have to learn a second language seems like the smarter move if you ask me 🧐
Heck, the Javanese language (spoken by a huge fraction of Indonesian) has 3 sub languages depending who you’re talking with (your friend, your parents, or a person with much higher social standing than you). To outsiders, that’s effectively 3 languages you’ll have to cream into your head (because the sub languages have different set of vocabularies), while the native themselves consider it one language.