Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
Europe should speak more effectively and clearly with one voice in the world.
Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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