Right. And its just a question of geography as well. I mean, The U.S. and Canada is huge, it only shares a border with 1 other non English speaking country. England is an island, Australia, iSland, etc. Plus, British colonization, and domination of the sea for 200 years. haha. But I agree, People in the U.S. especially, are way less likely to speak more than 1 language than anyone in the world for all these reasons.
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Dec 30, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brett, > > If you look at the world at large I'm afraid Americans are probably in a > minority regarding the speaking of two or more languages. In Germany, where > I am from, pretty much everybody who is 50 or so years old and younger > speaks English. The same goes for all Scandinavian countries, the > Netherlands and Switzerland except that in countries like Denmark, Sweden or > Norway people often speak several Scandinavian languages on top of English > and sometimes German. English one the one hand is the dominant language in > the world at least for international business, politics and technology so > that often means native English speakers like the British, Americans, > Australians and so on have little need to speak another language wheras in > the rest of the world English is pervasive. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Brett > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 4:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: automatic language switching in ios is brilliant > > Hi,. > > Personally, I hate it and always disable it on the PC. I think the option > should be a toggle since more people only speak one language than two or > more. > > Sent from Brett's iPhone > > On 30/12/2012, at 11:17 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have recently been experimenting with a couple of apps that have Arabic > and English text or Russian and English text, and the language switching on > the iPhone between the English and other language voices is perfect! My only > thing is that I wish Apple would let us have hq voices for more than our > home language. I've written that request to accessibility, and I hope they > will make it happen, like they do on the Mac. >> >> Mary >> >> Mary Otten >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
