Learning French in school is functionally the same as learning Latin
Learning French in school is functionally the same as learning Latin
Like everybody in France under 45 is fluent in English, and who the fuck wants to talk to an older European. Every single French colony without exception is phasing out or has phased out the use of French as France was such an awful colonial power. Did you know that Eclair is pronounced aey-clare? This does nothing for me. I guess some people want to read Les Miserables in the original Foot Mold Language, just like random people enjoy reading Ovid or Cicero in Catholic script.. And just like Latin, fuck that everything has genders and complicated conjugation.
I swear, the French teachers in school were trying to impart the vibe that if we know the French language, French women would have sex with us.
I refuse to defend any facts that I asserted in this essay.
Like everybody in France under 45 is fluent in English
this isn't even remotely correct lmao
Death to America
for real. their accent is so thick they may as well be speaking french
euh du coup doo yu no wehr is teh bar? I wante a glaseuh of bir
Just cause they know English doesn't mean they want to use it while you're in their country.
Learning a second language is a gateway to living anywhere that's not
I do not understand why French is put on the same level as actually useful languages. We've got a continent and a half that speaks Spanish right next door, and >40 million Spanish speakers in the country. There's a billion people who speak mandarin. 400 million who speak Arabic (kinda). Hell there's more indigenous language speakers than French speakers here.
Actually I do understand (it's racism).
You can sing songs written by Sankara.
Don't forget that ASL is the third most used language in the United States! No point in focusing exclusively on spoken languages, right?
In any case, I find it questionable to talk about languages in terms of "usefulness" like that, trying to measure "usefulness" based on an objective "number of speakers minus percentage who speak a language I already speak": there are plenty of reasons why a language can be personally useful to somebody, plenty of reasons to want to learn a language aside from how many new people one can talk to; and heck, learning one seemingly useless language can be great for building the skills and knowledge for taking on another language, or for becoming more flexible in using one's own first language.
That being said, you're not wrong to call the pedestal that French is put on compared to other languages a product of racism... Actually, I'd argue that a lot of foreign language education isn't even meant to get you proficient in that language, but rather more for the sake of, like, standardized school tests. Thus the languages that are put on the highest pedestal are just going to be the ones where the infrastructure already exists for getting butts in seats and tests on desks.
Hey, viens t'en au Québec! On a de la poutine, de la bière, des manifestations comme en France, du hockey, et de la neige en crisse!
The beer is good. Demos are on another level.
But there are the laws against wearing hijabs and turbans. . . . and all the other racism.
It’s genuinely helpful in many African countries, surprisingly people still speak it a whole lot, but yeah other than that, pretty useless language lmao
Learning a second language is a good thing
French is not a language, it's a contagious parasite.
Time to learn Béarnese Gascon, then
Like everybody in France under 45 is fluent in English
Uuuuhhhhhh
Counterpoints:
1: the instruction manual for my guillotine is in French. How am I supposed to figure out where to put a king's neck and where to place his body if I can't read le manuel d'utilisation??
2: Debout, les damnés de la terre
Debout, les forçats de la faim
le fische au chocolat
"la guillotine"? what the hell is that?
Like everybody in France under 45 is fluent in English
Bro I can tell you the ability of French people to speak any other language is a complete disaster. I came across people who went to study English at uni (my uni's language dept being considered one of the best btw) and still struggled with fluency
Tbh, acquiring language fluency via the academia is a myth. Without Immersion, you can never be fluent.
French women would have sex with us.
That was a warning to stay away from the language.
Il dit la vérité!
English vocabulary is 50% French so you're basically speaking 50% French anyways owned
and who the fuck wants to talk to an older European.
But only in Russian.
"I want to talk to an older European"
I mean, I'm not even joking when I say this... Well, I don't have plans to learn French necessarily, but one of the big reasons why I want to build my Norwegian skills is for the sake of the older folks who don't speak or aren't comfortable with speaking English. Older folks are by all means a mixed bag — trust me — but I still just like being around and hearing from them generally, and I wish them well, I don't want them to feel lonely or forgotten.
who the fuck wants to talk to an older European.
Me. I love French daddies.
get well soon
I swear, the French teachers in school were trying to impart the vibe that if we know the French language, French women would have sex with us.
stop already i can only be so unmotivated
Like everybody in France under 45 is fluent in English
Brother, I had to fucking pantomime to ask an 18 year old french guy where the bathroom is at a bar. You have no idea how bad it can be.
On the converse, most french people give English the linguistic respect it deserves which is just speaking french but making sure one word in three is english in the most rotten pronounciation you've ever heard.
w.r.t. former colonies it is a shame because i got to connect with a lot of arabic comrades once i got even a beginner's grasp of the language, which was easy because i speak another romance language. Yes i know how it sounds "boo hoo, why do i have to step out of my western chauvinistic bubble in order to engage with the arabic world"
which is just speaking french but making sure one word in three is english in the most rotten pronounciation you've ever heard.
Well yeah, but that's not really a bad thing. I think learning a language is good, regardless of whether you actually have a use for it.
Learning things is good. It's also good that schools still teach things like that, it's great that kids have the opportunity to learn a second language, especially if they're anglophones, since those tend to live in a bubble. Even learning Latin is good, it makes you think about grammar and language itself in ways you wouldn't otherwise. The way capitalist education is headed they might not teach these things for very long, since they're "useless".
Welp, I learned French before English and it makes it easier. Also, it helps with Spanish and some degree Russian.
From your lips to god's ear brother
The British, the French and the Germans are the best examples of Euroid Lib smugness. I hate them all
POLAND WINS AGAIN
Mais ce simplifie l'etude d'espagnole
Most people who speak French aren't French. The majority of Francophones are in Africa, but there's also millions in the Caribbean and the Levant. I still feel like it's useful for those places
I speak 14 languages as long as they're all English!
Which 14 Englishes do you speak?
Il y a beaucoup de bons films français.
Aussi, ça fait du bien dans ma bouche et mes oreilles.
I demand you delete this attack on Latin at once!
We took it cus were close to Quebec but they actually changed over to Spanish since I graduated.
Except one language is dead and the other should be too.
This goes hard
French is famously a waste of time as said in that classic memri tv meme. Latin should be more useful. There are lots of things writen in latin or in a mix of latin and another language. Those thing often do not have english translations. And latin words have cognates in more languages than french because french is very ideosincratic.
the worst part of learning french is talking to french people and if that doesnt stop you from learning it then you deserve to waste your time
Sur l'idée que les personnes française ne parlent pas anglais avec les touristes etc. Quand il voyagé à France en 2009, je trouvé ça dehors de Paris, les personnes étaient plus serviables et polie.
What if I want to go to Quebec?
