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Originally posted by TeenGodFather
Yeah, and the point he was making was that could you use proper tenses all the time in other languages. You should be grateful we eurotrash learn your simple language so you could communicate with us. Heaven forbid if you had to converse in french or dutch.. you'd NEVER learn it.
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I will say that Europeans are much luckier than the average American in that they are usually exposed to and learn more than one language natively. I wish I had been exposed to such an environment while growing up.
Like most other Americans, I was only exposed to English as a child. I learned Greek and Latin in school but these are dead languages. I don't currently speak any living language well enough to converse in it. I have studied several (mostly exotic languages) and have a general familiarity with the grammar of many others.
I'm not saying this to brag. I have a PhD in linguistics. Studying the properties of human language is what linguists do.