GJ blizz with babylon

[kate]

sorry I only speak 5, I'll work harder and try to learn a couple of more, any suggestions?

I'm curious what 5 you speak that you wouldn't be able to find some commonality between people who speak French and German - mostly asiatic or (less likely) slavic languages, I would guess?

[zenga]

I'm curious what 5 you speak that you wouldn't be able to find some commonality between people who speak French and German - mostly asiatic or (less likely) slavic languages, I would guess?

I do speak french and german, but this post was not about me not understanding them. But about the concept of throwing people together who have their clients in their own language for years (and obviously want to keep communicating in their own language) with *foreign* language realms.

To the troll: I'd love to see the reactions from the american players when they would be mixed up with e.g. chinese players in BG's. Go tell them to learn chinese!

[kate]

Ah, Gotcha!

Speaking as a usian, yeah we are as a rule bad about being bilingual or even trying. It's pretty dumb considering our neighbors to the south and north.

[zenga]

Ah, Gotcha!

Speaking as a usian, yeah we are as a rule bad about being bilingual or even trying. It's pretty dumb considering our neighbors to the south and north.

Well there is way less need in the us to speak multiple languages than for instance in my country. For the simple fact that you have what 250m native English speakers and a good part of the world communicates with you in English as well. In my country (1/13th the size of California, with 11m ppl) we have 3 official languages. If we want to go to the left or right, we have to speak another language, or they don't understand us. So the 'bad' example as you describe the US is more a natural reason than being 'lazy', whereas for us it's more a 'need' rather than being not lazy, we just learn 4 languages in school (well apart from the plumbers, construction workers, etc).

[kate]

Well there is way less need in the us to speak multiple languages than for instance in my country. For the simple fact that you have what 250m native English speakers and a good part of the world communicates with you in English as well. In my country (1/13th the size of California, with 11m ppl) we have 3 official languages. If we want to go to the left or right, we have to speak another language, or they don't understand us. So the 'bad' example as you describe the US is more a natural reason than being 'lazy', whereas for us it's more a 'need' rather than being not lazy, we just learn 4 languages in school (well apart from the plumbers, construction workers, etc).

I'm not even thinking about mere utility as much as I'm thinking about foreign languages as a doorway into other cultures & ways of thinking, and be excellent for growth as a person and individual.

Though, I do think learning at least some Spanish for USians is a good idea because it can be very useful, and it isn't like we're going to have smaller Hispanic & Spanish language communities in this country any time soon!

[Kang]

To the troll: I'd love to see the reactions from the american players when they would be mixed up with e.g. chinese players in BG's. Go tell them to learn chinese!

The chinese would all be called gold farmers and reported as afkers regardless of whether or not they were actively playing.

Back to the original issue though - I see your point and I hope it gets corrected/changed sometime soon. In the meantime create the BG tactics in 3 languages and spam them at the beginning of the matches. It might help a little. It can't hurt anyhow.