Thread 212125593

is there a default language? Say a Finn travels to Italy or whatever for business or holiday.

>>212125593 (OP)
We're taught 1 - 4 foreign languages in school.

We need more "bridge languages" to facilitate communication between similar languages. Like how the multiple mutually-unintelligible Arabic variants have Modern Standard Arabic.
The Romance languages should have Latin as its bridge language, the Slavic languages should use Inter-Slavic, and there should also be an Inter-Germanic language made if there isn't one already.

Latin or esperanto obviously

slav lang is kinda similar so it's not impossible

some of us have easy time with russian even tho it's far away for some reason while next door neighbors shit and piss themselves

We all talk in our own languages and just interpret what the other party is saying based on gestures and stereotypes.

>>212125618
I like the idea of picking a "central" language that is the equally comprehensible to speakers of related languages, instead of nonsense like Latin (not comprehensible to anyone despite historical ties) or Interslavic (soulless garbage like Esperanto)
For Slavic this is Slovak, for Romance probably Italian but you could be nice to the French and pick Catalan

>>212125593 (OP)
uhhhh
Exactly like we're doing now?

>>212125593 (OP)
they speak english, its the lingua franca

french, german, and russian are a little bit of a bridge language in some regions but its mostly english

>>212125593 (OP)
you really never learned the concept of lingua franca?

>>212126567
All slavic languages are bridges with each other. I'd still rather speak in English, but we can at least infer the general meaning most of the time.
Leads to a lot of misunderstandings though, like a Pole telling a Czech that he's looking for his lost child in a shop.

>>212125593 (OP)
I speak Serbian, German, English and French, I don't plan to go anywhere that requires another language.

>>212125593 (OP)
Yes, there's a concept named Lingua Franca. Normally you learn a foreign language, and you have the option to learn the basics of a second one. People living on bordering regions (real close to the border) used to be bilingual.

>>212125593 (OP)
with english dumbfuck

>>212125593 (OP)
we used to speak french to each other for centuries but since it's an anglo saxon world and we're just living in it we know speak english

>>212125593 (OP)
we normally fall back to Latin

>>212125593 (OP)
I normally speak proto-European with them.

>>212125593 (OP)
hand gestures and grunts

>>212125618
reddit tier idea only an oblivious EFL could come up with

>>212126664
tfw I am searching for a Czech guy's sister and he asks me to pay him money for no reason

American don't know that everybody speak esperanto in europe

>>212125593 (OP)
Is Basque even a real thing anymore? Also these maps seem to be always stuck in the 1950's or something. Nobody speaks Sardinian anymore, for every native Sardinian speaker in Italy, there are 10 Arabic native speakers

>>212125593 (OP)
anglais

>>212125593 (OP)
in broken english