[QuarterReptile]

French people are rich enough to be proficient English speakers, as are people in Tokyo. Seems like it'll probably work out.

I spent about a week in Japan, split between Tokyo and Nagasaki, and had no problem, having not even tried to learn any Japanese, except that I couldn't get the right train stop because I couldn't even recognize the characters, much less read them.

[missedthecue]

Apparently Japan has fewer bilingual citizens than even the USA.

[Bilal_io]

> than even the USA.

The US has a lot of immigrants, so I wouldn't count it as a country with a low percentage of bilinguals.

[missedthecue]

Citizens?

[Bilal_io]

Yes. As of 2020 nearly half of immigrants in the USA are citizens according to Pew Research[0]

0- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-finding...

[missedthecue]

So about 6% of Americans are immigrants

[todorus]

The ability to speak English is a function of wealth? Sorry, what?