French did have the large vowel inventory, homophones from lost of final consonants, and grammatical gender agreement that made it difficult to learn. English is the more neutral Western European language in terms of linguistic features due to their mixture of Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages.
I would far rather learn my native language than french. But they make try to make me feel guilty about not learning french properly. I speak french better than I speak my own language. What does that say?
“Only poor countries speak French” is racist, but it’s also sooooo close to realizing how imperialist France still is in the modern day…France keeps many other countries poor intentionally by stealing from them.
Learning French is mandatory for every communist because it’s unacceptable that you can’t spell or pronounce “bourgeoisie”.
The communists of China promoted literacy by creating simplified Chinese and developing pinyin. The communists of the West must follow in their footsteps by eliminating all remnants of French.
What word should we use instead of “bourgeoisie”? Bürgertum?
Imo those are not really the same thing. Bürgertum refers purely to people living in cities, those can own Means of Production or not. Bourgeoisie are always owners of MoP.
資產階級
Makes sense but you might want to change it to simplified chinese or daddy Mao will come back to spank you.
Might have just been japanese. lol
As a Canadian who has never lived in Quebec, I do low key have a bit of a chip on my shoulder regarding French but only because it was completely useless to me outside of French class. It was only mandatory from grade six to grade nine, after that it was optional. Unless you live in Quebec or interact with a lot of French stuff it just doesn’t stick, and that sucks because knowing a second language is a very good thing!
I wish French was more useful to me but it just hasn’t been. Maybe it’s just the way it is taught too because it was only usable in that one classroom (and it also felt like a chore). Maybe the governments could’ve done a better job at integrating multiple languages into our lives besides translations on products.
Also, while it may be off topic, but our Indigenous languages deserve the same respect and recognition.
Chinese, Vietnamese, Laotian, Korean, Spanish
A lot more people speak French than German, even if this is declining as parts of Francophone Africa are trying to ditch French. It’s not going to disappear overnight from those countries. I wish this wasn’t the case since my French is much worse than my German, but French is still objectively more useful than German for the time being.
Second to last paragraph this guy showed his ass. Conveniently not mentioning the one real benefit of learning French, being able to communicate with half of Africa, which apparently isn’t worthwhile because they’re “poor”, piss off.
Tbf they’re replacing it, he mentioned that.
Specifically only mentioned Arabs and Arab countries, this guy is almost certainly a racist PoS, the fact he’s bringing up football as if that matters to anything, massive red flag.
Well he is Canadian after all.
