Now if they’d only give that much committment to English in American schools, we’d be on a better track...
France doesn’t have to worry. The youtube generation has butchered the English language so much that soon p30P1c Vi1l B Talkin lik Dis.
Thanks to a little law called Freedom of Speech....
It would probably be advisable for Englihs speaking students to study Chinese.
Then why in the freakin world do I have to press one in AMERICA to communicate in English when I call an automated phone service?
I’ve traveled to many foreign countries. Routinely I was able to find someone on the street who spoke English if I needed help with something.
However, go to any street corner in downtown Los Angeles and you won’t have a snowballs chance of finding anybody who speaks English.
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French and English, the two languages of civilization. Les deux langues d’un monde civilisé.
Constant reports of the death of French are always exaggerated.
(Greek, Latin, French, English: the Western world keeps the hits on coming!)
Liberals want Arabic and Spanish to feel warm, cozy and “diverse” while their neighborhoods are turned to 3rd World shooting galleries, me included.
Dead language anyway. In 30 years, Arabic will be the dominate language of France.
Were it not for France, you would not be singing “God Bless America”.
You would be singing “God Save the Queen”.
Je parle un peux.
It would be a huge tragedy to lose French as a language and literary tradition. It is possibly the most poetic, musical language on Earth.
But it does tend to be a bit verbose at times, and is not well suited for technical work or engineering.
“Lentemant et haut voix”
“Lentemant et haut voix, si vous plait!”
Gawd!
Forty years later and I still hate that woman!
Let’s not insult the French when she says French is spoken in Haiti. It is most assuredly not. Creole is a really ugly sounding, guttural language, that has none of the charm and elegance of the French language.