The French interested/disinterested in the English language
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The topic about Sophie Marceau's accent is turning into a discussion about the French
and their interest in the English language.
In an attempt to keep the original thread focused on it's original topic, I'm creating this separate thread. Hans-Ulrich ---------------- I know that the French generally don't like learning foreign languages. ____________________________________________________________ bernard ---------- " I know that the French generally don't like learning foreign languages. " I'm sorry but this is a false stereotype spread by some english-speaking peoples (especially english) who don't would like to make Fance a english speaking country. As you can see by yourself I'm Fench, and can communicate in English. Como puedes verlo, soy frances y puedo comunicar en Espanol Come vedi, sono Francese e posso communicare in Italiano Comme tu le vois, je suis Français et je peux communiquer en Français com veus, soc frances i puc comincar en catala 5 languages is maybe not enough... ____________________________________________________________ Yann le Grenoblois --------------------------- Bernard, you remind me of a very interesting link. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/enotero/langues.htm [fr] ____________________________________________________________ Hans-Ulrich ---------------- Hi Bernard Very well for you, but I think you're a exception, the most French people don't want to learn English or Spanish, so the most French only speak (nothing against France, for example the most Americans only speaks English and the most Spaniards only speaks Spanish). Take care ____________________________________________________________ bernard ---------- hello Hans Ulrich. I just want to ask you something I suppose you are German. I went to Germany a few years ago. I was surprise to see that moqt people was cunable to answere a simple question in English. And, of course almost nobody was understanding french, italian or Spanish... Have you been in France ? Do you know some french people? Or are you just repeting what you have heard said ? I'm sorry but germans are not very good in speaking foreign languages... ____________________________________________________________ nico ----- Hans-Ulrich, when you say : "I know that the French generally don't like learning foreign languages." What the fuck you mean?! If you consider that many people form south west France are originally spanish or portuguese (same kind of % in the south east + italian), you are wrong, many french speak spanish. + italian is spoken in some south area + algerian + regioanl languages like breton, basque, auvergnat, flemmish... Many french speak more than 1 language Hans Ulrich, I guess like most of Germanic people you don’t like jewish people, no offense of course! O yes you will tell me it’s a cliché, won’t you? Typical cliche! You should not read tabloids, this is bad for you. ____________________________________________________________ Yann le Grenoblois --------------------------- Hans-Ulrich, Northern Europeans whose native tongue is some Germanic language will find English easy to learn because: 1/ Words are stressed in their own language, whereas in French, only the end of the sentence is. So we tend to not notice the stress. 2/ The most frequently used words are very similar to those of other Germanic tongues, whereas ours are Latin. 3/ American films aren't dubbed in their countries, unlike in France. 4/ Maybe they sought to have their school teach English efficiently at an earlier period than France. I don't know. The English classes I attended in high school were very similar to those Tom (who's Polish) attended. http://www.antimoon.com/other/englishclass.htm [en] 5/ We do want to learn English. A very profit-making buisness for an Anglophone in France is to teach English. Many French people attend classes for adults. But for the reason Tom points out in his article http://www.antimoon.com/other/englishclass.htm [en], this is not enough to learn English. I wish I came up with some witty ending, but it's lunch time. Bye. ;) ____________________________________________________________ Everything at : http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/8444.htm. |
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"I was surprise to see that moqt people was cunable to answere a simple question
in English..."
No wonder they couldn't undestand u in Germany! Have you got a speech impediment or are they typos or what? |
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| Interesting! I consider myself to be trilingual myself as I am proficient in Mathematics and indeed in music, as well as being able to speak English. However, they aren't viewed in the same way as say French, German etc I wonder why this is? |
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<<<However, they aren't viewed in the same way as say French, German etc I wonder why this is? >>> classic, classic Yankee |