Secondary Languages

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french
american

no one bothers to learn a second language here

maybe a handful know terrible mandarin because someone told them it would give them an edge in business

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1. Bordugal :DDD
2. Most pre-1980's people learned French (the ones that went to school other than the primary)
3. Most post-1980's people learned English.

Foreign Language speaking has always been seen as desirable and posh here, especially since translators were very well paid when we were WE WUZING around the world.

Oddly enough, Spanish never got much traction here, because we sort of have this idea of it being simple enough to meme through if need be, even though it's not as simple. I guess it's because it sort of sounds like a poor-person's Portuguese to us, since the open vowels are what Portuguese children use until they learn how to speak properly.

Despite that, Portuguese is still generally seen as the most beautiful language and has been nowhere near close of being disregarded in favour of any foreign language at all. We have top-tier literature backing it up, and our literature is very closely intertwined with our language and history, since it's always been very self-glorifying/introspective and not very fiction/narration-heavy.

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English
English

They teach you English since Kindergarten here, but only a handful of students get fluent at it.

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the answer will always be English

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1. Denmark
2. German
3. English