This. I think european and asian should be swapped in this meme. I think its rarer to see asian speak 3 languages than seeing european speak 3 languages

[–] camillaSinensis@reddthat.com 20 points 2 years ago

Surely that depends on where in Asia you're looking at as well? On average, the number of languages people speak is quite different between, say, India and Japan. Or Switzerland vs Romania in Europe.

[–] CheshireSnake@lemdit.com 6 points 2 years ago

As an asian, this has been my experience as well. Of course there are exceptions, but most asians I know (not just in my country) usually just speak 2 languages.

[–] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it also really depends where you are, which is why generalising entire continents maybe isn't very useful. Someone from Luxemburg or somewhere in the Netherlands with more recent immigrants is going to be a lot more likely to speak multiple languages than say someone from Russia or more rural France, just as someone from China is more often going to be monolingual compared to someone from India or Singapore

[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

More likely to run into a Portuguese speaker in Luxembourg than Russia for sure.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

"Hey let me just make a quick generalization about like three billion people".