Originally Posted by
Doug E Style
Someone who can speak three languages is tri-lingual
Someone who can speak two languages is bi-lingual
Someone who can speak one language is probably British.
Despite being a product of the English public school system, I’m fortunate to be pretty fluent in two languages and can get by in a third. I can be polite in a few more. And there’s Latin, too.
But the nail you’ve hit on the head is not a nail belonging to those who are its victims, it’s just the consequence of a delinquent education system which utterly failed to appreciate its State’s place in the modern world.