So a majority of Europe seems to be bilingual (the country’s native language(s) + English) and this is one of the things I like about being European is just how diverse we can be with all the different languages we have
But I’m British and a majority of people here only speak English (around 17.8% of Welsh people speak Welsh, around 60k Gaelic speakers in Scotland with about a million people saying they can speak Scots). I think that because the UK has the “default global language” of English, it kind of makes people not want to learn another language because because a majority of the world does speak English. It does kind of make me jealous of countries like Switzerland and Belgium as countries who have several languages that are widely spoken nationwide. It does make me want to learn a new language potentially because the most you do in the UK is a couple of years of French or Spanish in school and that’s about it
I want to know, in your opinion – what are the pros and cons (if there are any) of being bilingual?