Probably New Zealanders too.

When you can drive for more than a week straight and still be in the same country, needing to know other languages is a lower priority.

I have come to realize that largely, in the western world, it’s most common that people speak their own language and English. It just so happens that is the same language for many people.

we insert token Maori words at the beginning and end of our emails, that totally counts

Legit though, nobody alive today had anything to do with English becoming the trade language. It used to be French, but that went away and English filled in.

Any country where English is the primary language is going to have less people needing a second language for anything other than the general benefits it brings, which aren't truly necessary.

It isn't like everyone, everywhere speaks English on top of their first language, nor does everyone speak multiple languages. They do just fine with the dominant language of their country, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Also, Australians don't speak English. They speak Cunt :)

A lot of Americans in the south appear to speak Spanish from what I've noticed while traveling there.

Australia has enough problems. We Americans can take the hit.

New Zealand is at least teaching maori languages

It's an Anglosphere problem

The whole South America:

My relatives in australia speak english and a bit of german. They told me they had the choice to learn german or spanish in school.
But what is the point, other than you really want to learn a random language? I learned french, then english and later i had the opportunity to learn italian or spanish if i wanted to. But that's because these are the languages people speak here and the bordering countries. My relatives never used any of their german, except when they went to europe once.

Chuck us English in there too please.

man i wish second languages were more of a thing for people in the US

ive struggled learning spanish for a while as an adult and i just wish I had went to an immersion school or something as a youngster. even if it doesnt really matter, i think its just so great. great for your community, great for your brain; besides the time i dont see any downsides to learning another language

You might be surprised. Half of us were either born overseas or had at least one parent born overseas. A little under a third of us have English as our second language. That doesn't mean that two thirds of us only speak English - only that English is our 'home' language.

I know there's a lot of multiculuralism in the USA also, but I don't know whether those percentages compare.

Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/lookup/media release3

I’m sure the percentage of Brits that only speak English is lower than the most of the former colonies just because of the proximity to mainland Europe. But I’d be shocked to find out it was the same rate as second languages in non English speaking countries

I hear Chinese might be on the rise ;-)

They probably speak with their wild beasts, no way they survived this long otherwise

Wasn’t the whole point of Farscape that Aussies didn’t speak English and that one Florida guy had to teach them how?

Australians? You mean upside down Americans?

Australians be like: dnS