How come every Overwatch character can speak English

I just realized how many foreigner in Overwatch their are, and how many languages

Ana is from Egypt :egypt:
Can speak Arabic and English

Baptiste is from Haiti :haiti:
Can speak French and English

Brigitte is from Sweden :sweden:
Can speak Swedish and English

D.Va is from South Korea :kr:
Can speak Korean and English

Genji is from Japan :jp:
Can speak Japanese and English

Lucio is from Brazil :brazil:
Can speak Portuguese and English

Mei is from China :cn:
Can speak Mandarin and English

Mercy is from Switzerland :switzerland:
Can speak German and English

Moira is from Ireland :ireland:
Can speak Irish and English

Sombra is from Mexico :mexico:
Can speak Spanish and English

Symmetra is from India :india:
Can speak Hindi and English

And Widowmaker is from France :fr:
Can speak French and English

Doomfist is from :nigeria:
But it seems as if English is the primary language

How come all foreigners in this game can speak English, from what I’ve heard it ain’t easy for foreigners.

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You know, my game is in korean and how come everyone can speak korean ha

In our version, Baptiste instead of Merci says Mercy when trying to say thanks

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English remains the international language, until China takes over, and its a NA created game…

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i wasnt aware “irish” is a language…

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I mean story wise, your telling me every foreigner in this game, or just 19, took the time to learn the language?

Zarya is from russia… but can’t speak russian.

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She can say hello and many other lines in russian

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It is.

https://unitedlanguagegroup.com/blog/gaelic-vs-irish-whats-the-difference/

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Why is your game in Korean, do you speak Korean?

it voiced really bad. I’m russian. Zarya isn’t

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Well I’m from USA so I wouldn’t know much if not any Russian, unless I took the time to spend more then 2 years learning it

Because you have your “Spoken language” setting set to English

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and here i thought it was just English with an accent…

I know that, just a fun little story question

A beautiful, sexy accent.

Because English is an international language spoken by many. Even basic English isn’t that hard to master. What a strange question.

About 99% of Irish people speak or can speak English, and about %36 speak or can speak Irish, so ya it’s kind of fading out of the country

I heard there’s a pretty strong effort to encourage teaching it, though.

It’s kind of interesting (and sad) to see a language dying before your eyes, though.

People need to be able to understand what the heroes are saying, so it’s dubbed in various languages so people can actually do so instead of everyone only being able to understand whatever heroes canonically speak their language.

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Hell I’ve already learned %56 of the Mandarin alphabet because of Mei