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Originally Posted by fsquared
Simplicity is in the eye of the beholder  . Spanish is a lot easier to spell, for instance  . I think "simplicity" all has to be gauged relative to your native language.
Regarding your second paragraph, are you talking about bilingualism within Spain, or people being LanguageX+Spanish bilingual elsewhere in the world?
It seems more like the latter, in which case I guess you're talking about places like Latin America (although Spanish has probably almost displaced all the other native languages in much of Latin America). I guess a similar statement could be made regarding English in North America and lots of other places, but policies regarding ethnic assimilation/etc. need to be taken into account as well.
TheBarrett, which Asian languages do you know, just out of curiosity? |
Indonesian, Filipino, and fairly versed in Farsi. Indonesian and Filipino are quite similar, so I guess they don't count as two.
