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[Faliandra]

And let's NOT forget, on EU is not just about moving freely to any given server we have a HUGE language barrier(EU is not all English (English is a fraction of it, we have french German Spanish Italian Greek Arabic etc etc)this is ANOTHER reason why some EU people (birtish)mainly decided to stick on a NA server.

with all due respect to such circumstances as leaving houses, gil or long-term friendships behind....THIS is by far the most idiotic reason I've seen this far.
It may come as a surprise to you but most of Europe isnt exactly on bad terms with proper school education and....rumor has it that its mandatory for people
to learn english in school! I know, real shocker there.

Some specific folks (looking at you, germans and french people) do have a tendency to be bad with english because theyve been spoiled all their life with
getting exclusive servers for their own kind and generally having translations available so they never felt the need to "git gud" with english.
Sucks. HOWEVER, luckily for the rest of us, there are inofficial german (-> Shiva) and french (-> Moogle) servers, since these people stick mostly to their own.
So you wont even hear much from them or be bothered with it because: You can just transfer to any other EU Server that is NOT Moogle/Shiva. Wow, amazing!

Now, in all seriousness: Coming across people who dont speak any english at all seems to be the exception. They exist,but you wont notice them much.
They will MORE THAN LIKELY not be in an fc with you, they will not randomly engage in a conversation with you...and if you meet them in DF, its still fine 95% of the times
as there wont be any needed communication.

Also, how is language barrier so different on NA? I heard theres plenty of mexican/south american players. Pretty damn sure some of these people dont speak english.

So please, dont make language barrier your excuse. It is NOT.


sincerely,
a non-native english speaker