Monolingual English-Speakers in Latinoamerica

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Is not that funny? Most Europeans speak two or three languages... but gringos just speak english! Only english. American english.

Mike in Japan · Accepted Answer

Hi Ekbalam707.

What do you mean by Gringo?

YoungCalifornian · Answer

"Gringo" is a term many Latin Americans use to refer to their white North American neighbors.

Mike in Japan · Answer

Thanks YoungCalifornian.
I guessed that was the case but wonder whether I wider meaning might have been intended.

Leandro_tami · Answer

That's probably they don't have to worry about communicating with the rest of the world. I mean, English is the de-facto international language.
However I think knowing more than one language gives you a broader panorama of the world and the way others think.

But I'm afraid the most people in the world are monolingual. I don't see this as bad, because it could be that those persons have more important things to do than learning a new language they don't need. I could be wrong, but I think you're probably mexican, right? Mexico is obviously closer to the US than Argentina, and therefore the impact of English in my society is very little compared with the impact of English in yours. Most people in Argentina only speaks Spanish, and inspite Brazil is our neighbor, large masses of people going from and to Brazil are almost nonexistent, and thats why the impact on Portuguese is very little. I'm often amazed about how many people speak foreign languages in other countries.

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