I realized over the past week that a significant portion of my traffic comes from people that speak Spanish, German, and Dutch and various other languages I don’t speak, read or write. Thankfully, American mass media has helped make English the lingua franca.
Wie wunderbar!
Still, I wonder what awful form of English they learn from this website. Like more people need to learn how to curse in English on social media.
Fuckers.
I’m glad to see the exposure around the world, but I wish I could communicate better with these audiences. I went to school for music, so I learned enough German, French, Spanish and Italian to be dangerous to myself. Otherwise, I rely on Google Translate to see what people are saying.
Like that’s much help though.
Do you have issues communicating with your global audience? Or do you not care to try and reach out to them in their native language? Let me know in the comments.
I have enjoyed following a few German speakers. This and singing Baroque music is about all the practice I’ve gotten since college. Even in Germany several times, it wasn’t worth trying to actually communicate with modern Germans. Google Translate is pretty bad but I also use Leo.org.
I’m just never going to try to say anything besides “Hello,” “Thank you,” and “Stay off my lawn!”
Yes, if you know “Verboten,” you will avoid a lot of hassles in Germany, especially where their grass is concerned.
I also know “Ein Bier.”
Somehow, I knew that. But don’t forget to say, “Bitte.”
Hola!
I read you from Spain and I havent studied English for over 10 years, I only learn English now from HBO series and so on, so dont worry about the cursing, I got it covered!
Thank goodness for HBO!
I’m from Spain but in fact I’m bilingual, because the region where I’m living, we speak another language.
I speak english and I’m able to speaking and reading Italian as well. I think that allways is interesting learn as many languages as possible.
Awesome! I live learning languages too. I just wish I was better at them.