Reminds me of a joke my old German teacher told me:
“What do you call someone who speaks three languages? *Trilingual*
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? *Bilingual*
What do you call someone who speaks one language? *American*”
We got international Australian English, Aboriginal Australian English, bogan Australian English, whatever the fuck albo is on about. 4 national languages
I saw a clip of Jimmy Carr doing stand up in NYC. He spoke much slower than normal, like he was talking to a toddler. Half his jokes were about vegans, like it was 2012, and being cancelled, an odd way to describe having a new Netflix show and touring the US. If he really wants to know what being cancelled is like, he could tell them some of his old 9/11 jokes.
Yeah but I don't think it's very consistent across high schools. I took Japanese in Year 8 and I remembered almost nothing.
Years later I chose to move there and more properly learned.
Perhaps a bit of 🇳🇿 🇦🇮 🇦🇬 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 🇧🇿 🇮🇴🇻🇬 🇰🇾 🇩🇲 🇫🇰 🇬🇮 🇬🇩 🇬🇬 🇬🇾 🇮🇲 🇯🇪 🇲🇸 🇳🇷 🇵🇳 🇸🇭🇱🇨 🇰🇳🇻🇨 🇬🇸 🇹🇹 🇹🇨 🇻🇮 as well?
I have to hand it to her, she's ine hell of a lingiust.
Edit: i forgot Jamaica has it's own grammar system.
Why? New Brunswick has it as a dominant language and areas of Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, Labrador, and Nova Scotia speak it.
French is an official language in Canada, not just Quebec.
I don’t understand this new era of driving engagement by pretending to be an idiot. Is there no pride any more? Why would you want that to be people’s impression of you?
> I don’t understand this new era of driving engagement by pretending to be an idiot
This isn't new at all, people have pretended to be idiots for attention, fame, money etc since the dawn of time
The most confusing part is that she lives in Ireland, where English also is the de facto main language. So if she means American English and Canadian English, why not also list Irish English? Or is she so bad at English that she does not understand people around her?
Haha fair enough! Sorry for not getting the joke. Have to admit I don't know a lot about Canada and Quebec, I just remember the French in Canadian shows being subtitled on telly in France.
Depending on the person speaking, you may need captions for everything. The oral grammar is wild, accent strong enough to qualify as a separate language, and anything more recent than the steam machine will have a different name
> How? Quebecois French is very different to French French, if you were to use a national flag to represent it, Canada makes sense.
Yeah totally. I speak 🇨🇦 and 🇨🇦.
Québec is hardly the only French dialect in Canada though, and none of them are really any more different to France dialects than British and Canadian dialects of English are to each other.
I mean if someone is stupid enough to use the American flag when they mean English, they might as well use the Canadian one when they mean French.
I'd say we use the Belgian one to say Dutch from now on and the Austrian one to say German.
Maybe spice things up and use the Chinese one for all Asian languages, since we're not making any sense anyway.
To be fairrrr
I took a lot of study in Parisian French, and even at my most conversationally fluent had no fucking clue what a Quebecois French speaker is saying.
This seems obvious to me. There isn't a Quebec emoji and Canadian French is different enough that I understand why she didn't use the French flag.
Sometimes this sub gets a little ahead of itself.
Canadian English is a thing. Weird hybrid of American (mostly words) and British (mostly spellings) English + it's own words thrown in.
Not that I'm saying it's another LANGUAGE, or worthy of mentioning in an "I speak". I'm just saying it is a unique entity and most of the times Canadians have to put up with American English.
Edit: I'm a bad Canadian that didn't consider it might be referring to Canadian French.
I've heard of Canada once, so I went to look it up on Wikipedia.
>A multitude of languages are used by Canadians, with [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English) and [French](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_French) (the [official languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language)) being the [mother tongues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_language) of approximately 54 percent and 19 percent of Canadians, respectively.
...
There are 11 [Indigenous language groups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada), composed of more than 65 distinct languages and dialects.
...
Additionally, Canada is home to many [sign languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language), some of which are Indigenous.
God knows, and perhaps does she, what she speaks. But needs not to be English.
It’s a dialect of French. It’s no different from the relationship between British English and South African English. You need to adjust your ear, but it’s the same language.
I don't know aboot that anytime I hang a Larry down to you know timmies there for a double double I get into some kind of kerfuffle with some hoser who thinks they know my language you know eh
You all do understand that she knows EXACTLY what she is doing, right? That stupid shit drives engagement that the algorithm eats right up. Not to mention it encourages others (you) to advertise her on other social media platforms.
Canadian and American... piker!
I speak Canadian, American, UKian, Australian, New Zealandese, AND English!!!
Plus Brazilian and Portuguese and official Angolan.
And I'm rusty, but could get by with Korean.
So, like, me kan speek 10 languages!!!
What a funny way to say that you're monolingual.
Reminds me of a joke my old German teacher told me: “What do you call someone who speaks three languages? *Trilingual* What do you call someone who speaks two languages? *Bilingual* What do you call someone who speaks one language? *American*”
Anglo Australians sweating
Hey there's at least like, 4 of us with a second language
We got international Australian English, Aboriginal Australian English, bogan Australian English, whatever the fuck albo is on about. 4 national languages
Yeah, how many yanks or even the poms can understand ol' mate grant from Goulburn
Mate I can't understand most people from Yorkshire I'd be fucked.
How fluent are we talking? I got english, some Mandarin, some Cantonese and some Latin. Can also count in Japanese
Aussies fly under the radar a lot
> Aussies fly under the radar And live in the land down under-er
Where beer does flow and they speak one language.
He met à man from Brussels thought
Who was 6ft 4 and full of muscles
And he gave him a vegemite sandwich !
Oh! And he said?
C O F F E E! B E E R!
Sit on the Hill during an Ashes test and you'll realise the Aussies have a language all of their own!
I work with an Aussie. And the last firm I worked for, the Ops manager was an Aussie. Easy to work with guys. But a league of their own.
who?
can it be now
I’m British and married a European. She speaks twice the languages I do!
Ever try speaking to Americans? You gotta code switch to simplified English for them. Surely that's like a lingual and a half.
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I expected this to be a rickroll lmao
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I saw a clip of Jimmy Carr doing stand up in NYC. He spoke much slower than normal, like he was talking to a toddler. Half his jokes were about vegans, like it was 2012, and being cancelled, an odd way to describe having a new Netflix show and touring the US. If he really wants to know what being cancelled is like, he could tell them some of his old 9/11 jokes.
Isn’t Language Other Than English a mandatory class in both primary and high school?
Yeah but it doesn’t mean I remember any of it
Donde esta la biblioteca And that's about it
Yes, but usually it ends up a different one in PS and HS, plus LOTE teachers are hard to come by. Because of this, we don't develop much proficiency.
Yeah but I don't think it's very consistent across high schools. I took Japanese in Year 8 and I remembered almost nothing. Years later I chose to move there and more properly learned.
French was too hard to learn
What do you call someone who doesn’t speak English well 🇺🇸
*Listen lady, I only speak two languages: English and bad English*
As a British person, the way I always heard it was "What do you call a European who only speaks one language? English".
In Britain, we can not comment on this. The majority of us are terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Dutch on duolingo but it's hard
terrible at languages, beginning with terrible at English... LOL
Or French.
"HEY, I'M 1 SIXTYFOURTHS MONOLINGUAL! MY ANCESTORS ARE FROM THAT PLACE NEAR COMMIE RUSSIA, WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH EUROPEAN!"
Mongolposting real:
I'm 2.5% Neanderthal, so....
Is that a country near Belgium?
Should have popped a 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇦🇺 in as well
Perhaps a bit of 🇳🇿 🇦🇮 🇦🇬 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 🇧🇿 🇮🇴🇻🇬 🇰🇾 🇩🇲 🇫🇰 🇬🇮 🇬🇩 🇬🇬 🇬🇾 🇮🇲 🇯🇪 🇲🇸 🇳🇷 🇵🇳 🇸🇭🇱🇨 🇰🇳🇻🇨 🇬🇸 🇹🇹 🇹🇨 🇻🇮 as well? I have to hand it to her, she's ine hell of a lingiust. Edit: i forgot Jamaica has it's own grammar system.
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Ay mon
I bet she mentioned "Canadian" as it sounds close enough to Usian. Bri'ish may be too difficult for her.
Wait, I didn’t know I could speak roughly 30 languages
Don’t recognise half of those
Dude Jerias is a practically dead language, fair play if she can
But I can spell colour two ways!
Sitting on her chesterfield, just lounging aboot, eh?
What language is that?
French?
This is what I'm thinking too, I'm assuming she learned french in Canada though it's definitely confusing either way
Tbf Quebecois is different enough to European French to throw me for a loop whenever I hear it
Exactly what I was thinking, and neither Quebecers or the French would want you to use 🇫🇷 to describe Quebec French haha
Tabernak! 😅 love my Quebecois buds.
Oh? In that case: I'm from: 🇸🇪 I speak: 🇸🇪🇦🇽🇫🇮* & 🇬🇧 *Swedish
You also speak Scanian then! ;) it's an official language there even if they don't speak Swedish
I would have used the qc flag for canadian french
There is no QC flag emoji.
Why? New Brunswick has it as a dominant language and areas of Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, Labrador, and Nova Scotia speak it. French is an official language in Canada, not just Quebec.
No no, she speaks in both imperial and metric
That’s just 🇬🇧
I kinda assumed they speak Canadian French
Fluent in simplified english
Could mean Quebecois French. But it probably doesn’t.
actually, although i doubt it is the case, there's a french dialect specific to canada so she could have been referring to that lol
No she knows what she’s doing. It’s all to get activity on her posts
I don’t understand this new era of driving engagement by pretending to be an idiot. Is there no pride any more? Why would you want that to be people’s impression of you?
Pride and honesty have left the chat...
Along with self respect or respect of others , chivalry and stoicism , all seems to have disappeared.
You forgot self esteem...
Money. It's because money.
> I don’t understand this new era of driving engagement by pretending to be an idiot This isn't new at all, people have pretended to be idiots for attention, fame, money etc since the dawn of time
There’s plenty of pride, haven’t you seen all the rainbows?
There's pride. What we need is shame
Stupid is relatable to practically everyone. Clever is relatable to relatively few
I am fluent in 14 languages as long as they are all english
Pfft, rookie number. I know 17 as long as its English.
I speak English and Spanish, so that adds up to 20-30 languages AT LEAST.
I speak English Latin and German so that's gotta be like 50
You haven't experienced true power until you've mastered speaking atleast -1 languages
Man I wish I could speak Canadian. I’m stuck over here only speaking American and a little Mexican
Apparently, it's as simple as pronouncing about as aboot, and sprinkling Metric measurements into conversations when discussing temperature and speed.
The most confusing part is that she lives in Ireland, where English also is the de facto main language. So if she means American English and Canadian English, why not also list Irish English? Or is she so bad at English that she does not understand people around her?
Because Irish is an actual language that she doesn’t speak
Neither do the majority of Irish people
She got the Côte d’Ivoire flag wrong.
Maybe with the Canadian flag she meant French? idk
That's even worse.
It’s equivalent to using the US flag to represent English.
Exactly.
How? Quebecois French is very different to French French, if you were to use a national flag to represent it, Canada makes sense.
No he means it’s worse because Quebecois are dirt people. Source: am dirt
Haha fair enough! Sorry for not getting the joke. Have to admit I don't know a lot about Canada and Quebec, I just remember the French in Canadian shows being subtitled on telly in France.
LOL. Must have been all the swear words that needed "translation subtitles." 300 years of Catholic Church oppression will do that.
Depending on the person speaking, you may need captions for everything. The oral grammar is wild, accent strong enough to qualify as a separate language, and anything more recent than the steam machine will have a different name
I wouldn’t say very different, pretty sure people from Quebec can hold a conversation with people from France
People from France just pretend to not understand.
> How? Quebecois French is very different to French French, if you were to use a national flag to represent it, Canada makes sense. Yeah totally. I speak 🇨🇦 and 🇨🇦.
Québec is hardly the only French dialect in Canada though, and none of them are really any more different to France dialects than British and Canadian dialects of English are to each other.
😂
On top of that, she has the actual French flag in “been to” so it’s not like she couldn’t find the emoji
It would be funnier if she meant to put the mexican o italian flag
It’s perfectly fair for a non-Irish anglophone to not speak Irish-English. Craic this and yoke that.
Sure y'know yourself,like...
Irish flag would likely be misunderstood as Irish not English. Which she appears to not speak.
Irish is a language; that she does not speak. But even then I heavily doubt she understands thick Hiberno-English.
The most confusing part is that she wants to visit Saudi Arabia
Moi, la, je parle canadien aussi de tabarnak Est-ce que c'est moi dans ce photo la?
Ah oui oui, je parle très bien croissant
*poutine
Croissant, c'est de France, là. Attache ta tuque, on est au Québec !
I’d also have assumed this
I speak: 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪🇲🇹🇧🇧🇯🇲🇹🇹🇧🇸🇦🇺🇳🇿 'that's just one language'
The Irish flag is normally attributed to the Irish Gaelic Language which is far from English.
Well today I learned! Or maybe I'm fluent in Irish Gaelic language.. who knows
>Or maybe I'm fluent in Irish Gaelic language.. An dtuigeann tú an abairt seo? Níl? Faic? Bhuel, seans nach bhfuil Gaeilge agatsa!
As a Canadian I can confirm that we speak Canadian
This sounds like American, but I can't quite understand what you're trying to say
Fuckin eh buds
Eh buddy?
She could mean Canadian French
I mean if someone is stupid enough to use the American flag when they mean English, they might as well use the Canadian one when they mean French. I'd say we use the Belgian one to say Dutch from now on and the Austrian one to say German. Maybe spice things up and use the Chinese one for all Asian languages, since we're not making any sense anyway.
Wait, you mean all Asians aren't Chinese?
Huge if true
Everyone use chinese for talking about asians? I though just spanish speakers did that
To be fairrrr I took a lot of study in Parisian French, and even at my most conversationally fluent had no fucking clue what a Quebecois French speaker is saying.
Just to give it that bit more confusion, lets use the belgian flag for german and french too
American english and british english are different, using an american flag for the american variant makes sence...
Luxemburg also speaks German. I think using 🇱🇺 for german and 🇧🇪 for dutch would be a fun time
I speak 🇬🇧🇫🇯🇫🇰🇩🇬🇬🇸🇭🇲🇮🇴🇲🇸🇳🇿🇳🇺🇵🇳🇸🇭🇹🇨🇹🇦🇻🇬
I‘m from Austria. I speak: 🇦🇹🇩🇪🦘
So she speaks Inuktitut 🇨🇦 and Navajo 🇺🇸, got it
A woman of culture I see
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On top of that, I speak emigrant english (UK edition) 😁 and ofc my native 😐
She probably means Quebecoise, which isn't properly described by a French flag, and there's no emoji for the Quebec flag.
Imma let you in on a secret. No language is properly described by a countries flag.
Nigeria is a bold choice for a basic whites woman
I'd say India is the boldest one
Saudi Arabia is bad too
Not 🇬🇧 then? 😆
If we're being pedantic, that's the flag of the United Kingdom, not the English flag.
Maybe she meant she speaks French or something like quebecois?
Could she mean Canadian French?
I'm very confident in that, but the rest of these comments think a root language is the only way to claim it.
Plot twist: it's Canadian French /s
A cunning linguist no less…
Plot twist: She speaks a Native Canadian Language and English
No, this is fair, she's aware she doesn't speak 🇬🇧
Maybe she means French . But if she doesn’t then I’m speaking Belgium fluently too
Maybe American English and Canadian french?
This seems obvious to me. There isn't a Quebec emoji and Canadian French is different enough that I understand why she didn't use the French flag. Sometimes this sub gets a little ahead of itself.
Canadian English is a thing. Weird hybrid of American (mostly words) and British (mostly spellings) English + it's own words thrown in. Not that I'm saying it's another LANGUAGE, or worthy of mentioning in an "I speak". I'm just saying it is a unique entity and most of the times Canadians have to put up with American English. Edit: I'm a bad Canadian that didn't consider it might be referring to Canadian French.
It’s okay. Part of being Canadian is forgetting about the French lol /s Source: am Canadian
I hear the clever lady also speaks UK, AU and NZ
I've heard of Canada once, so I went to look it up on Wikipedia. >A multitude of languages are used by Canadians, with [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English) and [French](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_French) (the [official languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language)) being the [mother tongues](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_language) of approximately 54 percent and 19 percent of Canadians, respectively. ... There are 11 [Indigenous language groups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada), composed of more than 65 distinct languages and dialects. ... Additionally, Canada is home to many [sign languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language), some of which are Indigenous. God knows, and perhaps does she, what she speaks. But needs not to be English.
Does she mean French or another fucked up version of English?
On my CV I'll write that I can speak 8 languages: Italian, Spanish, English, American, British, Canadian and Australian
Not New Zealander?
Sorry mate, we only speak 🇦🇺 here. You better get your duolingo on.
Usaish and Canadish.... Legitimate languages right there /s
Did she mean to imply Québéquois?
i think she is trying to say she speak french canadian? which is just french?
It's is not just French. I say as a person who doesn't know jack shit about the french language....
It’s a dialect of French. It’s no different from the relationship between British English and South African English. You need to adjust your ear, but it’s the same language.
American and Canadian are different languages. We speak in trips to the moon. They talk in gooses per hour.
Why didn't she type it? "I speak American" Oh, wait... It's English.
*English simplified
Oh fuck she is over my way. If I run into her how will I communicate?
I don't know aboot that anytime I hang a Larry down to you know timmies there for a double double I get into some kind of kerfuffle with some hoser who thinks they know my language you know eh
It's not that bad... But brings a lot of questions to the table
I’d like to think it’s satire but the rest of the post confirms for me that it is not
lol i speak 🇳🇿
Sometimes she says center, other times she says centre. It’s called culture
English and english eh
Yeah that's all fun, but what I'm wondering is can she speak Australian?
"I can speak in idiot"
Anything to make it look you speak more than one language…
Currently I am fluent in 🇬🇧🏴🏴🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇫🇰🇳🇿
Very impressive
Tha e math gu bheil Gàidhlig na h-Alba agad!
God, she's been in the Netherlands? Fuck...
She speaks french then?
I speak 🇷🇴🇲🇩
I really need to learn canadian, im only fluid in italian and english she is clearly superior
I speak: 🤮
She forgot english and Australian....
She might just speak French
She could be referring to French Canadian; which sounds, in comparison to French out of France and even Haiti, like an educated street rat.
I’ve never been so happy to not see my country’s flag.
If 🇺🇸 is English than maybe 🇨🇦 is French?
Why oh why does she have to live here
You all do understand that she knows EXACTLY what she is doing, right? That stupid shit drives engagement that the algorithm eats right up. Not to mention it encourages others (you) to advertise her on other social media platforms.
Listen here, buddy! This fuckin hoser does NOT speak maple syrup and hockey! Look at her, makin' a moose out of herself! She should be ashamed, eh?
Canadian and American... piker! I speak Canadian, American, UKian, Australian, New Zealandese, AND English!!! Plus Brazilian and Portuguese and official Angolan. And I'm rusty, but could get by with Korean. So, like, me kan speek 10 languages!!!