Comments by "Module 79L" (@module79l28) on "American Reacts to Europeans VS Americans - "How Many Languages Do You Know?"" video.

The thing you need to realise, Ian, is that everyone who learns English as a second language is automatically bilingual. The fact that millions of people speak at least two languages might be surprising for US americans but for us non-native English speakers is kind of the minimum requirement. 🙂
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@BertoLaDK - I couldn't have said it better myself! 👍
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@JaNouWatIkVind - It's older than that. In my 5th and 6th grades (1976-1977) we already had to choose between English and French as a second language. In my 7th, 8th and 9th grades (1978-1980) we had mandatory English and French and we could choose a third optional language if we wanted to (Spanish or German).
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@Rasarel I think you're replying to the wrong person, I never said they did.
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@Moonchild0 - My point was that learning a 2nd or 3rd language in school, regardless of the country, is not a 21st century thing.
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@Rasarel - Then tag the person you're replying to, otherwise you're replying to my OP. 😉
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@nbarrio - A bilingual person is someone who speaks their native language plus a second language at a conversational level, not someone who speaks two languages besides their native one. There's nothing difficult to understand about it.
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@sigmundklaus - A bilingual person is someone who can communicate equally in two different languages, just that. There's nothing in the definition of bilingual that says that both languages have to be mother tongues. Maybe you should've checked the definition before attempting to correct me.
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@sigmundklaus - You do that.
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@johanneswerner1140 - Don't sell yourself short. For most US americans, being "only fluent in three languages" makes you a hyper giga chad polyglot. 😄
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