Europeans: roughly around what year or decade did English become widespread in your country?

**eTrex** · 03-01-2021, 05:18 PM

We don't speak english here in Sweden

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**Tooting Carmen** · 03-01-2021, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by IberianAlex

I went to private/charter schools in Miami but the classes were entirely in English, almost all of my classmates were from Hispanic backgrounds though so we all spoke Spanish/Spanglish to each other, in my household we only spoke in Spanish.

Miami is basically a Latin American city though, haha, so in general Spanish is utilized very frequently throughout life, even the Anglos become sort of hispanized just living there.

Well a couple of years ago I stayed with a cousin of mine who lives in the Kendall area. Although Spanish may be heard everywhere in Miami, from what I recall it was only in Little Havana and the airport where everything was written bilingually (and occasionally only in Spanish, in the former's case). Everywhere else the signs and info in Spanish seemed to be much more sporadic and haphazard. (Mind you, I was impressed to find even working-class Afram women able to converse in Spanish with their customers in a Dunkin Donuts shop in Downtown. So much for the stereotypes of Americans being more parochial and less cultured than the British - even in London, Birmingham and Manchester most people only speak English plus whatever their ancestral language is, if they are from an immigrant background).

Alexandro · 03-01-2021, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

Well a couple of years ago I stayed with a cousin of mine who lives in the Kendall area. Although Spanish may be heard everywhere in Miami, from what I recall it was only in Little Havana and the airport where everything was written bilingually (and occasionally only in Spanish, in the former's case). Everywhere else the signs and info in Spanish seemed to be much more sporadic and haphazard. (Mind you, I was impressed to find even working-class Afram women able to converse in Spanish with their customers in a Dunkin Donuts shop in Downtown. So much for the stereotypes of Americans being more parochial and less cultured than the British - even in London, Birmingham and Manchester most people only speak English plus whatever their ancestral language is, if they are from an immigrant background).

Man, there are parts of Hialeah and whatnot where you can walk around and not hear one person speaking English, like go to Versailles or Rio Cristal and order in English, watch the fun. Who knows what you'll actually get for your meal, but it won't be what you ordered, hahahaha. Things like bilingual signs and whatnot, hmm, I have been away from Miami for too long to remember, but there are a lot of oldschool Cubans that came before Mariel who have super rudimentary English skills and they have been living there for 50+ years, its wild.

Little Havana is more like Little Managua nowadays if I'm being honest, not too many Cubans live there anymore, mostly central Americans.

**Tooting Carmen** · 03-01-2021, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by IberianAlex

Man, there are parts of Hialeah and whatnot where you can walk around and not hear one person speaking English, like go to Versailles or Rio Cristal and order in English, watch the fun. Who knows what you'll actually get for your meal, but it won't be what you ordered, hahahaha. Things like bilingual signs and whatnot, hmm, I have been away from Miami for too long to remember, but there are a lot of oldschool Cubans that came before Mariel who have super rudimentary English skills and they have been living there for 50+ years, its wild.

Little Havana is more like Little Managua nowadays if I'm being honest, not too many Cubans live there anymore, mostly central Americans.

The latest American Community Survey says that over a third of people in Miami-Dade County speak English "less than very well" - far higher than most other US big cities: https://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/...=12&county=086

**Zeno** · 03-01-2021, 06:22 PM

70s or 80s. Anyone almost below the age of 60 in Greece speak fluent English. But the younger generations tend to have more individuals with British or American-like accents.