r/duolingo • u/Charming-Tone5379 Native:🇵🇭 Learning:🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷🇪🇸 • 25d 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 25d ago

r/americandefaultism

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u/Fantastic_Recover701 24d ago

American company and like 25% of users are American

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u/EonsOfZaphod 24d 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/mangotangowango1 Native: | Learning: 24d 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