Language switch in France, when will happen?

Vincent Cassell   Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:46 pm GMT
When France will switch to Arabic language? Some studies say 2050 ad.
Monica Bellucci   Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:51 pm GMT
It depends. 2050 is optimistic. I think in 2050 France will be bilingual. French language will desappear in 2100.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3591
Caspian   Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:53 pm GMT
It's not going to happen, what a preposterous idea! Lord, this is here only to cause conflict. A huge argument will now erupt here, you mark my words. Gosh, it's just so typically obvious!!
vremya   Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:05 pm GMT
French, unlike Spanish, will not be able to reconquest their territory due to political correctness and idiocy.
original name   Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:31 pm GMT
I recently saw the stats.
Arabic is very little taught in France (much less than in Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany or USA). For some reason (probably its poor image in the French public but even more in the immigrant communities) it ranks largely behind Chinese, Japanese or even Hebrew.
Choose a more   Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:17 am GMT
original name, statistics are manipulated by Frenh politicians. I was in France last year, in Paris, Marseille, Corse and Nice. In some zones I had heard speaking in Arabic more that French. In Corse, Arabic is more spoken than autochthonous Corsican language, and in Marseille there are zones where also signals are in Arabic: no traces of italic alphabet.
Choose a more   Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:51 am GMT
Mustafa   Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:38 pm GMT
<<Look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/goios/161575279/in/set-72057594114607379/

This is Marseille. >>


This place seems Argelia

France is changing very fast!
Sarkozy   Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:45 pm GMT
Multiculturalism is good.
No Eurabia   Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:34 am GMT
Europe needs to enforce stricter immigration laws to stop the cultural invasion. To bad most Euro politicians are PC pussies that are afraid to offend anyone.
Tommy   Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:40 pm GMT
Looking history (Sudeten, Venetian Dalmatia, Algeria, Iberic Peninsula, Ocitania), between 2100 and 2200 if there will be a war. Whiteout war, French can continue to be language of France.
Charles   Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:44 pm GMT
Arabic settlement and language in France will stop as soon as French social systems will stop to pay.
Guest   Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:12 pm GMT
Luke   Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:19 pm GMT
I agree with you. This is Paris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YjnekcmHj8
guest   Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:03 pm GMT
" I recently saw the stats.
Arabic is very little taught in France (much less than in Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany or USA). For some reason (probably its poor image in the French public but even more in the immigrant communities) it ranks largely behind Chinese, Japanese or even Hebrew "



The thing that most people here doesn't understand is that what you call "arabs" are originary from Tunisa, Morroco and Algeria, which were french speaking. No one needed to speak Arabic (a lot of them even didn't when they arrive, such as Kabyles°