the French Study topic, help me learn french again

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 12-04-2004, 00:14

Fortunately English is the world language...means I don't have to learn anything else

**Sjakihata** · 12-04-2004, 04:18

It really strengthens the intelligence and sense of logic to learn and study languages, Im glad I have the opportunity to learn about three different languages

**dessa14** · 12-04-2004, 05:53

actually i prefer to speak to people in french sometimes, it is so much more eloquent then english, plus i hate the english speaking world saying english is the world language, and acting like its the only important language in the world, and that everyone should speak it.
this is regardless of the fact that the majority of people in the world do not speak english.
thanks,
dessa

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 12-04-2004, 06:16

Originally Posted by dessa14

actually i prefer to speak to people in french sometimes, it is so much more eloquent then english, plus i hate the english speaking world saying english is the world language, and acting like its the only important language in the world, and that everyone should speak it.
this is regardless of the fact that the majority of people in the world do not speak english.
thanks,
dessa

There are more students of English in China then there are people in the United States.

**dessa14** · 12-04-2004, 09:56

there is only a couple of hundred million in the USA.
there may be 1.3/1.5 billion people speaking english in the world, now there is 7 billion people in the world, bit shy of a majority.
thanks,
dessa

**Adrian II** · 12-04-2004, 12:00

Originally Posted by dessa14

there is only a couple of hundred million in the USA.
there may be 1.3/1.5 billion people speaking english in the world, now there is 7 billion people in the world, bit shy of a majority.

It's good to have English regarded as the transnational language of the future. Maybe one day everybody will speak English as their first language. It is the lingua franca of the world in the same way French used to be the lingua franca of European society until the end of the nineteenth century, particularly of the aristocratic elite in politics, diplomacy and the arts. Tough on the French, they should have conquered the American colonies and things would look better for them. I bet our American friends would have banned British fries by now... Allons enfants... Good luck with your studies, Dessa14.