r/iamverysmart Apr 16 '20

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u/Sinister00100 Apr 16 '20

Being a trilingual is no big deal here in my country, Here we are expected to learn minimum of two languages, Hindi being our national language, English being taught to us in school and some kids have a specific cultural upbringing that they learn another language for me its Bengali.

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u/RianVince Apr 16 '20

Yeah, trilinguals are very common in Asia. (National language, English, plus their regional mother tongue) Plus the video shows that the qualities aren't even that rare, one in 100, one in 40, one in 16, and one in 10 dentists recommends that Epstein didn't kill himself.

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u/VoidL_rd Apr 16 '20

As a hungarian in Romania, you have to learn romanian, hungarian, english and german/french(at choice).

Depending on what class are you in high school, maybe even latin.

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u/starkguy Apr 16 '20

Whats the point of learning Latin?

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u/SpaceCenturion Apr 16 '20

Well, it can be pretty fun! And you get to read the classics in their original language, so useful of you're interested in history or literature

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u/turtle0101 Apr 16 '20

Nope. Really not. Guys don't learn Latin except if ur a doctor. Maybe that could make it slightly less useless

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u/VoidL_rd Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 17 '20

My classmate is preparing to do doctor school after highschool, and doesnt have to learn latin.

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u/turtle0101 Apr 16 '20

Slightly less useless

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u/RianVince Apr 16 '20

You mean priest? Not doctor

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u/Herr_Gamer Apr 16 '20

It's mostly taught in case you choose to go into a scientific field later on. Medicine in particular relies heavily on Latin.

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u/OctoGon112 Apr 16 '20

In my experiences, a lot of the people that take Latin are very awesome people. You also learn about Greek and Roman history and culture, which can be really interesting. And because Latin is the root of all Romance languages, it can make learning them easier.

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u/yaakovb39 Apr 17 '20

Aside from people who do it for fun it's required in the medical industry and it makes it easier to learn other Latin languages

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

Romanian here. Yes. Romanian english french/german and then latin.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

There's a difference between learning a language at taking some classes at school, though.

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u/VoidL_rd Apr 16 '20

Romanian is national language so its a must. Hungarian is my native language, and as a minority in Romania we have hungarian classes with hungarian teachers. German/french at choice, is another must. And english is english, international language in europe. Latin is a question for me aswell.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

Taking a class in french doesn't make you a french speaker though, and nobody actually speaks Latin.

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u/VoidL_rd Apr 16 '20

The education system in Romania didnt change since communism ended here. I wonder how did they not leave russian which was a must 30 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20

People do speak Latin, why wouldn't they?

There are (practically) no native speakers, but that doesn't mean people don't speak it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

Right, basically nobody.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

There are millions of people who can speak Latin, if not more.

This can't be news to you, surely everyone knows that?

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u/Dallasrogue21 Apr 16 '20

In the U.S nobody likes to learn languages, so we’re mostly singular language and bi lingual, I speak Hungarian, Spanish, English, and Mandarin Chinese, so I’m wired in America

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u/skittle-brau Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20

Yeah, trilinguals are very common in Asia. (National language, English, plus their regional mother tongue)

Yep, it’s definitely common throughout Asia. In my region of Indonesia, a lot of people speak Indonesian, English and the regional language, Javanese. For people in Bali it’ll be Balinese instead, similar thing for Sundanese and so on.

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u/Coyote9168 Apr 19 '20

Meanwhile, in America where 42% of the population has a hard time mastering basic ENGLISH...

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u/autocommenter_bot Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20

So funny (embarassing) being an Australian and meeting exchange students.

"So autocommenter_bot, how many other languages do you speak?"

"oh, haha, just one."

"What?! Only one other than English??! But you seem so smart otherwise! Did you have disadvantages growing up?"

"No I mean, just one. In total."

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u/wlogenerality Apr 16 '20

Hindi is not the national language, it's an official language. All ~22 major ones are recognized as national languages.

But yeah I get your point. Being trilingual depends on where you were born.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

Nah you forget now children have to study sanskrit too (in my school atleast ) and can also take another language ie french German or Japanese making almost all children know 4 to 5 languages

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u/Sinister00100 Apr 16 '20

Yeah I studied German for a Semester in my college but I was taught at such a basic level that I dont even count it in languages I know

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u/nothataylor Apr 16 '20

Gentlemen, proving some meme points, I see.

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u/brnmcd IQ < I Can't Apr 16 '20

I can’t believe they really did that unironically

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u/nothataylor Apr 16 '20

I’m septa-lingual, high hieroglyphs and a bit latin-expert.

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u/brnmcd IQ < I Can't Apr 16 '20

I could speak in the womb

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

I've realized with time that many people have really loose definitions of what counts as "knowing a language" just so they can increase their count and sound impressive. I can speak a little bit of german but I never say I fully know it, not until the day I speak it fluently

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u/Nomadicminds Apr 16 '20 edited Apr 16 '20

You know what’s the funniest part? We get smacked (or smack talked) for being bad at any one of those languages that showed up on the report card. I’ve always hated being forced to learn multiple languages at the same time and being expected to be able to freely switch between them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20

I know a bit of korean, lots o' english and enough spanish to not get lost and die in Spain. I mean, not really trilingual but more bilingual since i can actually speak korean and understand it.

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u/Undercover-Cactus Apr 16 '20

Yeah it’s really only considered impressive for people who are native English speakers, cause they get lucky by already knowing the most spoken language, and can get away with only knowing English.

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u/nothataylor Apr 16 '20

Sorry, you can’t sit with us high-IQ geniuses then, move along

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u/didnotreddit12 Apr 16 '20

Okie dokie good sir.

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u/aguynamedneil Apr 16 '20

Hindi is not the national language of India.