@talya @wfk @quixoticgeek @girlonthenet huh... maybe I'm just dumb though cause with the amount of trouble I have learning just one more language now I don't think I would've been able to survive in the area I live in without speaking at least both Greek and Turkish, and probably also Bulgarian as well back then

@wfk @quixoticgeek @girlonthenet this shocks *me* too tbh, in school we had Romanian (just, grammar and literature, since I'm from Romania), English, a third language of our choice (for me it was between French and German, I picked German and then failed to learn it), and then we technically had Latin in 8th and 12th grades only iirc? And since Latin teachers are Romanian teachers too we really just had an extra Romanian class a week most of the time, and other than that it was like "I know none of you care about actually learning this so I'll just give you high grades so I don't ruin your average"

@quixoticgeek @girlonthenet I mean, afaik it's mostly the norm just cause of British and later American imperialism, most people who are bilingual speak their native language and English