Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die
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Probably in some microstate (eg Malta). In this map size it isn't visible (colour tone).
Broken_Erika
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Turkish is probably North Cyprus/Erdoganist Turkprus
danjuno
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What's the deal with the French users in East Africa? Or Pakistan and Iran for that matter.
Lexicus
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French is widely spoken in West Africa. That would be my guess anyway.
http://making.duolingo.com/which-countries-study-which-languages-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it
I suppose i can just link this, instead of badly pilfering the thing.
I suppose i can just link this, instead of badly pilfering the thing.
This is barely acceptable procedure, if at all.
warpus
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I wonder why Spanish is so popular in Nepal. When I was there the dominant 2nd/3rd language seemed to be English. I don't think I heard any Spanish at all
Still can't figure out what the Italian and Turkish-learning countries are, but I have a suspicion about the latter.
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(there is a game made of it, too)
hobbsyoyo
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I think you hit the nail on the head though. English is probably not as popular on duolingo in a lot of countries because it is already widely spoken or taught in schools so they don't need duolingo for it. Maybe they get a lot of spanish-speaking tourists they would like to better service?
Broken_Erika
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You live in Mongolia, right?
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Greece can into Mongolia? Which is in the the Falklands, in the Australian western desert?
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Greece can into Mongolia? Which is in the the Falklands, in the Australian western desert?
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sophie
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Or not tourists, but
which would explain Sweden.
Sweden in North Africa confirmed.
No, but parts of the empire are occupied by a central asian entity -_-
warpus
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I considered all that, and it perplexes me, because from what I saw and heard English was by far what you wanted to learn if you wanted to maximize your time spent making money off tourists. This is all of course anecdotal, but English was more widely used to interact with tourists than any other language I heard. I also heard Italian and (trying to remember) I think we ran across a Japanese group.. some Polish.. and maybe a couple other languages I'm not remembering.. but I definitely do not remember any groups speaking Spanish. English really sticks out, most tourists seemed to be speaking that, and all the tourist friendly signs on the trail are all in English as well. India is also nearby and by far the most influential neighbour of Nepal's, and English is an official language there.
I suppose it could be that Nepalis learn English in school (I know that they do, but not sure to what extent) and that they seek out other languages to learn on their own time. But if this were the case, you'd think that his phenomenon would repeat itself in a lot of other countries around the planet where this is also the case
Assuming this explains it (i also thought of it, but have reservations, eg those you mentioned) it could be that in some of the countries the actual educators in school/other systems themselves refer (as a non official option) to online courses, and thus those gain some momentum. Although i think that it is more likely that the stats for a few countries may be just false or misleading (eg i doubt that these are stats of actual people having finished any course, so they may just be enlisting or just searching/looking at courses). And while english, french, german, spanish, even italian, may be easy to find classes for in many Eu towns and likely in all cities, it isn't the same in parts of east Asia or other continents.
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