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[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago

Are they going to learn a new language? Lots of these people enroll their kids at international schools that teach in English and there are many gentrified places in big cities where you don't need the local language

[-] teft@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

As an english speaker and spanish as a second language user who lives in a latin american city i’d say it’s pretty hard to get around if you only know english. He’ll probably learn just from being around it. Kids tend to do that with new languages. Like he may attend an english based school but the kids will be bilingual and who wouldn’t want to learn the local slang? And then that snowballs into learning more language until one day you’re accidentally fluent.

[-] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He's a billionaire, that kid will never walk into a shoo that isn't closed down with their best english speaker hosting the special customer. It's just one of those things, difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is about a billion dollars. They live on a different plane of existence.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

i’d say it’s pretty hard to get around if you only know english

Their nanny and other household staff members will protect them from having to deal with such inconveniences.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

These rich ass fucks have American-speaking nannies in Argentina while the most fortunate Americans can only afford nannies that speak Argentenese in America. Wtf.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Did you expect them to subject their kids to anything less than an English speaking nanny?

Whats the point of being obscenely rich if you can't insulate the kids from the real world?

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