The French interested/disinterested in the English language

Another thing which I missed is that that should be "in terms", not "in term".

French is the most spoken language in Europe in term of number of countries?!

France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Monaco

Germany
Austria
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Liechtenstein

...me thinks its even,with German.

Sander,

I think this is sad when you meet someone from a country which is culturally close to your to not try to speak to him in a kind of MIX. That's really fun, you realize the common points and the differences. It can be really interesting.

<<No,Dutch and French pronouncation is very different...>>

The spelling is very different from that of French, but the pronunciation is much easier than that of English from my own experience.

<<30 % speaks French? I would even dare to say 15% Arrent you confusing the Belgians with the Dutch?>>

I saw a poll that said so. That was 31% exactly. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/enotero/langues.htm [fr]

It also can be a waste of time ;) Why do it the hard way,by letting im tumble into the hell of Dutch when you can speak his easy peasy language?!

Sander,

"France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Monaco"

+ Vallé d'Aoste
+ Andorre
+ Monaco

But seriously i don't know.

Sander, and Andorra (spe?) is Francophone, that's 6 countries.

Ha! I forgot Belgium with German as well.

So its still even.

+1 region in Italy, as Nico points out. That's seven. :p

Nico,

Vallé d'Aoste? What is that? That must be so big like Vatican. And how big is Monaco?

And Südtirol in Italy is too German speaking

German used to basically be used throughout much of eastern Europe, especially along the southern rim of the Baltic Sea, and in what are now the Czech Republic, areas of Poland, and so on, both as a natively spoken language in some areas (such as amongst Baltic Germans) and as a lingua franca in other areas, but it has receded with the end of World War Two, with its most eastern boundary being defined by the Oder-Neisse Line and Austria's eastern border. However, since the fall of the Iron Curtain, from what it seems, interest in German's been increasing again in Eastern Europe as a whole.

Hans,

I told you it was *only* in term of countries. ;)

<<And Südtirol in Italy>>

Oh! Still tied. 7-7

Hans:

Monaco is extremely small. Its total area is less than 2 square kilometers. It's densely populated, though, so it has a population of about 30 thousand.