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Europeans tend to speak more than one language because learning a foreign language--usually English for the first one--is compulsory starting at about age ten at the latest. If a person is planning to go on to college, they also have to learn at least one more language. A lot of this is because there are so many languages in immediate proximity to each other, and the rest is because it makes a person more competitive in a business and academic sense if they speak multiple languages.

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