I disagree with this and its my experience that there are assholes speaking every language and that the English speaking world tends to be the most understanding when it comes to second language speakers using improper words and/or grammar.
Personally, and anecdotally, I've found English speakers to be quite forgiving of poor English — that is, they usually make an effort to try and understand someone with broken English, and they don't usually point out poor grammar (though, that could be because the majority of English speakers don't have the best grammar to begin with 😉). Especially when one compares them with some other cultures, eg the French.
It's pretty hard to learn another language as an American unless you're able to travel to a place where that is used. I wasn't even allowed to take a foreign language class when I was in high school because I scored too poorly on English in grade school (from not doing homework, not because of aptitude). I haven't really had a need for it in my adult life either other than like 3 times where I had Spanish speaking customers when I worked at in retail and we still managed to overcome the language barrier.
I'm an American who speaks decent German. I've gotten this flak traveling in non-German speaking Europe - Stupid American only speaking English attitude thrown my way. Mother fucker I'm in France, a German would also be using English here. To some people the only way to not be "that American" is to speak all the languages.
On the flip side, I've had a few Germans ask me why I bothered learning their language when I could just use English.
To be fair, 95% of people on that continent speak one or more of three languages. And those three languages (English, Spanish, French) are among the most widely spoken languages in the world.
This is nonsense. Only English teachers do this.
Reminds me of a joke that you hear a lot in Europe:
What do you call someone who can speak many languages? Polyglottal.
What do you call someone who can speak two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? English.
Non-native English speakers are still often better at English than native English speakers that choose to write like they are illiterate.
Americans when someone doesn't speak English good enough: "They're English is bad!!!"
Homie I cant afford to get mad at bad english. I live in LA. I'm lucky if they speak English at all.
I wonder if some English natives couldn't believe as kids that the entire damn world just happens to speak their language
There is this youtube video with Jack Black and some others playing D&D. When they introduce their characters, they go on about how they are a polyglot like it is some amazing feat. This when every character in D&D knows at least common and some other language.
Anyway, that's just Tuesday in Europe.
Brits: "This meme is wrong. .5 at best."
Americans can't even speak english properly....
Basically the equivalent to learning english in the slums.
Nobody cares SpongeBob meme.jpg
Yea there's nothing wrong with just being able to speak the standard language across the world. Everyone should be able to speak English
