msgothic wrote:Ashix wrote:Oh I dunno, I live in Finland as a brit. Finns aren't Germanic peoples yet 3 quarters of the country can speak English.
Hmmm.. Maybe it's not just germanic then. But Europeans have an easier time learning English from my experience. I'm Turkish and Turkish and English are very different too. (Turkic languages and Germanic languages are very different.) And I also speak Japanese and Chinese (also very different from Germanic languages.)
I just think people need to stop assuming that English is THE LANGUAGE that everyone should know. English isn't some godsend language. It all ties back into Western supremacy.
Except that English is generally regarded as a world language and most certainly is the primary language used on the internet.