look at the geography also
European countries are so much smaller, it is so much easier to travel to different countries. IMO, that is one reason why Americans don't speak another language. How many of us took French, German or Spanish in high school and how many of us have had the chance to travel to a country where French, German, or Spanish is the native language? Europeans get many more opportunities to do this.
Canadians, unless they live in one of the predominantly French speaking provinces, or maybe in Ottawa, the capital, aren't usually multilingual, at least to my knowledge. Canadians - please inform us about this and correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe the native French speaking ones are more multi-lingual than the native English speakers?
I do think Americans don't generally go out of their way to learn languages like Europeans do, but I think it's mainly because of geography. That's just my impression - I could be wrong.
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