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How commonly spoken is your country’s second language? If I only spoke that language, would I be likely to make friends? (chachara.club)

submitted 1 day ago by ArMonica@chachara.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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USA: Spanish. I’m learning Spanish, and I think as a whole it’s like 18% of people in the USA but I feel like you’re likely to encounter some Spanish speakers and make friends even if not everyone speaks Spanish here.

Brazil: It looks like Spanish is also the second most spoken language with 4% or English with around 5%. I’m sure you’re more likely to find people on the Internet who speak it.

French: English, apparently a quarter of the population speak it??? Not sure how likely you are to find someone in the wild speaking it, but on the Internet, a lot of people.

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not sure how likely you are to find someone in the wild speaking it, but on the Internet, a lot of people.

Living in Ottawa, Canada and frequently visiting Montréal 😬. Ottawa is majority English, especially in the west end but it's like a 30/70 split for French and English downtown and gets more and more French as you go east. By the eastern suburbs you're hearing French most of the time

Canada as a whole is majority English but Québec is obviously primarily French. New Brunswick is significantly French as well and there are other pockets of other French areas scattered across the country