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nice joke, but no, i know 4.The toughest for me personally is czech.
I swear every single time someone mentions language or doesn't explicitly say where they're from someone will fight you saying that you only know one language and one culture and you can't possibly know anything else lol
well there are some stereotypes about americans, and there are also lots of people in the world that don't know any languages other than their native ones, so I guess I can see where it's coming from.
I'm more referring to where you say you obviously know more than just English, and someone tries to fight you about it. That only comes from bad intentions.
Whatever you call it, but to me it seems simply as a rather not so funny, but still a joke without any implied hostility. People are not as malicious as you think, untill it's the matter of politics of course.
Thanks for understanding it was actually just a joke.
DID YOU JUST SAID THAT YOU DISAGREE WITH MY POLITICAL VIEW???????
The problem is that speaking different languages is not even remotely the same thing as knowing anything about linguistics. People have no idea of how little they actually know about the use of language.
I'm honestly not sure about how people would go about learning a language without getting so involved that you inevitably catch all of that, I've never thought about it.