Which minority languages are on the signs in your area?
Pic related. In San Francisco it's Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese.
Never understood why so many packages have French. Are we buying shit from the Canucks?
French.
>>50998752
English, what's the point of having any other?
Do immigrants in US refuse to learn English?
Spanish and French are on most packages.
>>50998763
If anything in the US has French on it i'm pretty sure it's an import, yeah. Not like there are many monolingual francophones in the U.S.
>>50998794
>expecting old people to properly learn shit
Oh wait I'm on 4chan! Common sense doesn't apply here!
>>50998794
Well with the Vietnamese and Chinese especially you have a fair amount of elderly folk who moved with their sons or daughters, and when they're staying home all day, and are old as fuck, they can't really be asked to learn english. Just about every Vietnamese and Chinese person under 40 speaks flawless English though.
As per Spanish, at least where I live it is just as if not more commonly spoken than English, and there are plenty of jobs you can hold and speak only Spanish at, so it's not really an issue either.
>>50998831
>expecting old people to properly learn shit
What are you talking about?
>>50998859
Thanks for the explanation
>>50998773
My dad runs a bath store in Edmonton and gets fucking furious about all the shit he can't sell because of monolingual packaging.
>>50998862
These immigrants come when they're about 50 years old. They only learn enough to pass the exam and forget about it later because they have no desire to leave the community
>>50998763
Actually is so we can export to Canada, which requires both English and French. It's cheaper to just print the French on every package than to create separate designs/machines for Canada-bound stuff, plus if A Canadian store receives an excess of product they can ship to to a close-by American store and vise-versa.
>>50998862
is there any Spanish on signs in Brazil?
>>50998885
What do you mean?
>>50998949
>vic(e?) versa
>>50999007
I think I have never seen one. In English I see all the time in my city.
>>50999027
>I think I have never seen one. In English I see all the time in my city.
Is that for tourists or for resident minorities?
>>50999104
It's for the tourists, we have the biggest Japanese community out of Japan and some of them can't speak Portuguese but still I haven't see any public sign in Japanese.
Generally they learn fast, mostly because they are vendors
