Very few in my generation speak three languages, even in my rather international field. Yet my older colleagues speak french, German and Spanish like it is nothing. And my international colleagues often speak 4+ languages.

I am fine with English being a de facto Lingua Franca, but I can't help feeling something has been lost.

I just think that people are more worried about the homogenization of language than they need to be. In fact, with how quickly culture is homogenizing around the world, I think that it is even possible that language differences outlast cultural differences over the medium term. Teenagers in a lot of the world I have been to in the past years dress/behave/express themselves ... not very differently.

Everywhere I go in the world, old shit is different, but modern shit is depressingly the same, or really similar anyway.