>>>>multilingual
>>>>Using or knowing more than one language; "a multilingual translator"; "a multilingual nation"<
>>>
>>>I'm sure someone will flame me for this, but here goes anyway:
>>>
>>>What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
>>>
>>>Tri-lingual.
>>>
>>>What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?
>>>
>>>Bi-lingual.
>>>
>>>What do you call someone who speaks one language?
>>>
>>>..............
>>>
>>>American! <g>
>>
>>Or an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard....
>
>Hmmmm ... maybe you missed the point of my joke. The majority of Americans speak only English. I don't know about the Brits or Spaniards, but I've been to France a couple of times and was amazed at how many are very fluent in English. And, in the parts of France that I visited, being close to Italy, many spoke Italian as well (and the Italians spoke French). Seems to me to be a very European thing to be fluent in more than one language. That's just not so here in the U.S.
>
>~~Bonnie

Oh trust me on this one <s> The majority (English, French) don't speak another language. Speaking other languages seems to be the 'privilege' of those peoples where speaking only their mothers' tongue really isn't a viable option.

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