to add a pitiful defense of americans, yet still a defense, it must also be considered that even though we do learn languages (and many of us do indeed learn many languages despite general opinion), theres very little place to actually put these languages to use and without practice sometimes a language can lose its value -- the entire continent in Europe barely fills any section of the United States and you can travel across down the road or next door and get a different language, we have to cross and ocean to get any real wide spread use besides as mentioned earlier, spanish and french, but even still, english is still used more so the practice just is not there
to add a pitiful defense of americans, yet still a defense, it must also be considered that even though we do learn languages (and many of us do indeed learn many languages despite general opinion), theres very little place to actually put these languages to use and without practice sometimes a language can lose its value -- the entire continent in Europe barely fills any section of the United States and you can travel across down the road or next door and get a different language, we have to cross and ocean to get any real wide spread use besides as mentioned earlier, spanish and french, but even still, english is still used more so the practice just is not there