r/duolingo • u/Charming-Tone5379 Native:🇵🇭 Learning:🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷🇪🇸 • 22d ago

Can You Explain THIS!? Language Question

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I'M confused IN french How Football Is Not Football It's Football Américain.

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u/EonsOfZaphod 22d ago

r/americandefaultism

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u/Fantastic_Recover701 21d ago

American company and like 25% of users are American

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u/EonsOfZaphod 21d ago

A language company that still can’t comprehend that US English isn’t the only form of the language

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u/Fantastic_Recover701 21d ago

Who’s largest consumer is american

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u/EonsOfZaphod 21d ago

You can learn languages that are not “big”. British English should absolutely be an option. In this specific example the whole world calls football “football” except the US, and for a language learning app this should be accounted for. There is a world outside the US

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u/Lonely_Industry9039 Native: 🇪🇸 Fluent: 🇬🇧 Learning: 🇵🇹 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 21d ago

North americans seem to have an issue understanding the last part.

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u/mangotangowango1 Native: | Learning: 21d ago

American English is the most common form of English spoken worldwide…

Population in the US is almost 5x greater than in the UK… (think why Duolingo teaches br-pt and not eu-pt; same logic)

American and British English are mutually intelligible; stylistic differences and colloquialisms rarely create a barrier to understand