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Are you bilingual?
JoonasTo:
English is used because of the British Empire and the U.S.A. as simple as that.
Before it was German/French/Spanish/Arabic/Latin/Greek/Phoenician etc. etc.
You're right, French is horrible. :P
Meandola:
--- Quote from: harpy on January 31, 2011, 06:23:15 PM ---To tell the truth I still do not understand we people say that French is beautiful language, I do not find it pleasing to the ear with all these "r" sounds and throat sounds.
--- End quote ---
Joining the bandwagon, don't like French at all! I used to have French at school, I dropped it as soon as I was allowed to haha. I did German instead, also don't really like German, but it sounds a tiny bit like Dutch so it was the lesser of two evils :P
duskfairy:
just one word: post-colonialism
why do we still have to learn languish like french, german, spanish, I wonder sometimes; well yeah many speak these lang indeed; but hey! the countries with most power in the world today isn't the same as before... thinking about BRIC, ASEAN+3 and so on... so guess it would be more sufficient to learn the kids in school (For those who have that privilege, which i guess the most of us here on baka had cuz we're here, many are billingual etc) languishes such as cantonese, mandarin... etc etc
or what do you say?
beside that;
I'm fluent in swedish and english
learnt french in school way back for...like...*counting* seven years so half
and when i grew up i were also fluent in sign languish for swedish- pretty useless now if you ask cause don't know any deaf persons today, but can can pick up the jint of a conversation in sign languish even in other lang.
will def trying to learn at least two more lang for the next two years... or at east try to do
JoonasTo:
Learning chinese would be foolish compared to english, spanish or french. It's about geographic spread. Not about numbers.
duskfairy:
maybe today indeed, but what i'm pointing at is that i think it would be more useful in the future... when the paradigm-shift finally have occurred to that point that even the old colonized langues is too old.
for example I heard that there's more mandarin sites and so on, on the web than english! dunno if it's true but wouldn't be too surprised if that's the case. i'm curious about the future and if all this nationalism and separate countries will withstand... and if the languish is the first thing to change; i mean, with globalism comes english and what will be next
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