I'm trying to learn another language, and damn its hard.
English is the most widespread language, but not as a first one. Partly because of that some believe it will soon be overtaken by mixed dialects such as Singlish.
Anyway, to OP, i'm British and I speak 2 languages other then English (not fluently though, French at a level high enough that i've studied at a French university, and korean only to a level for socialising etc). Also i think Esperanto failed for a damn good reason.
Everyone of you fucks that says they speak french, You speak as in what ? You can ask for the bathroom and say hello ?
[QUOTE=Xmeagol;19251174]This has gotten me mad, Globalization should not be monolingual, it should be multilingual, as in, learning as much languages as you can, learning cultures, learned history, shit like that.[/QUOTE]
that's probably the dumbest fucking thing I've heard in a few weeks
the point of globalization is the interconnection of modern countries and unification and reform of social morals, cultures, and economics
that includes using one language so everyone can fucking understand you
there's no point to learning 30 different languages (each requiring a fairly significant amount of time to learn) if everyone speaks one universal language
it just so happens that british imperialism led to English being that language (even though French is still really goddamn big - used more in official business than anything else, being the official language of the UN for a while, etc)
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[QUOTE=Mechanical43;19258807]Everyone of you fucks that says they speak french, You speak as in what ? You can ask for the bathroom and say hello ?[/QUOTE]
donde estan los huevos
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donde estan los huevos[/QUOTE]
Bwahahhaha spanish
pero, donde estan los huevos? estan en la biblioteca? que hora es?
[QUOTE=Mechanical43;19258807]Everyone of you fucks that says they speak french, You speak as in what ? You can ask for the bathroom and say hello ?[/QUOTE]
Alors mon petit salaud, j'ai habité lá-bas pendant une entier année, et je vair revenir a la fin de 2010 pour reprendre mes etudes. Alors, quand je dire que je peux parler français d'un niveau moyenne, cette á dire que je peux habiter la bas, étude lá-bas et vive comme normale sans problèmes. Bien, je n’ai pas encore maitrisé la grammaire, mais j’espère qu’avec du temps je vais l'améliorer.
Excusez moi monsieur, mais où est le W.C? Bonjour.
I can pretend to speak two languages by throwing consonants together. I'm very good at that.:P
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[QUOTE=Woutsie;19253536]sorry but
The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)
[B] 1. Chinese* (937,132,000)[/B]
2. Spanish (332,000,000)
[B] 3. English (322,000,000)[/B]
4. Bengali (189,000,000)
5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
6. Arabic* (174,950,000)
7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
8. Russian (170,000,000)
9. Japanese (125,000,000)
10. German (98,000,000)
11. French* (79,572,000)
:derp:
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also this thread made me laugh so goddamn hard :cawg: :xd:[/QUOTE]
That is by native tongue, you idiot.
[QUOTE=Roskarnolkov;19259016]I can pretend to speak two languages by throwing consonants together. I'm very good at that.:P
[/QUOTE]
klsklslkst vbnmspt yryrfccx
why doesn't it work for me
Me forzaron a aprender inglés cuando era niño
It's funny because the OP thinks he's good at English yet he's really bad.
[QUOTE=Athelus;19258977]Alors mon petit salaud, j'ai habité lá-bas pendant une entier année, et je vair revenir a la fin de 2010 pour reprendre mes etudes. Alors, quand je dire que je peux parler français d'un niveau moyenne, cette á dire que je peux habiter la bas, étude lá-bas et vive comme normale sans problèmes. Bien, je n’ai pas encore maitrisé la grammaire, mais j’espère qu’avec du temps je vais l'améliorer.
Excusez moi monsieur, mais où est le W.C? Bonjour.[/QUOTE]
T'est bon, je suis impressionné !
Le W.C... Salle d'eau/Salle de bain ?
Eh, fuck Enspanzul. English is the [I]linqua franca[/I] of the world.
[QUOTE=Uberslug;19257646]No, more people speak English than Mandarin. More people speak Mandarin as their first language than English.[/QUOTE]
No, more people speak Mandarin than English. There are far more people that speak mandarin than english as either a first or second language. At least from what I've heard. There are so many numbers out there.
[QUOTE=Mechanical43;19259276]T'est bon, je suis impressionné !
Le W.C... Salle d'eau/Salle de bain ?[/QUOTE]
W.C. ironically stands for Water Closet, but in france everyone seems to say that for a bathroom, without even knowing it's actually english.
One french friend even tried to teach me that 'cash' meant money, assuming that 'cash' was french slang.
[QUOTE=Sickle;19259278]Eh, fuck Enspanzul. English is the [I]linqua franca[/I] of the world.[/QUOTE]
Hah, I agree, it's an interesting world when English is now the Lingua Franca (latin for French Language)
I wish the English and the American would stop stereotyping eachother.
[QUOTE=BlackWind;19259822]I wish the English and the American would stop stereotyping eachother.[/QUOTE]
It's ok as long as it's light hearted, me and my american friends are always having a go at each other.
I agree with the OP, there are so many people at school who don't take their language classes seriously. I, for one, find them to be very interesting and I like the idea of learning to speak new languages. Mind you, I'm not the best at it, but I've been trying.
[QUOTE=BlackWind;19259822]I wish the English and the American would stop stereotyping eachother.[/QUOTE]
how exactly do we stereotype the brits
I disagree with the OP. In a perfect world, there is only 1 language. No problems, everyone understands eachother and no more confusions and people who speak bad English because it isn't their main language!
[QUOTE=Dlaor;19260384]I disagree with the OP. In a perfect world, there is only 1 language. No problems, everyone understands eachother and no more confusions and people who speak bad English because it isn't their main language![/QUOTE]
Yes, but if everyone spoke the same language half my qualifications would be useless.
OP, I haven't read the past pages, but we Americans are required to take a foreign language if our school can afford it. Most people here may not speak it but we can understand most other languages.
Oh, but we know swear words in every language :v:
[QUOTE=OLLIE!;19251188]So what was the point you were trying to make? English is the most used language in the world, simple as that.[/QUOTE]
No it isn't. It's Chinese. Next comes Spanish (Esperanto) and then English.
Probably late and all that but I don't like how people are giving him agrees left and right.
[QUOTE=PLing;19260805]Probably late and all that but I don't like how people are giving him agrees left and right.[/QUOTE]
Some people aren't very smart.
English Speaking Countries have the most power though.
(USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.)
[QUOTE=PLing;19260805]Spanish (Esperanto)[/QUOTE]
Esperanto isn't Spanish, is it? Correct me if I'm wrong here.
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[url=http://www.tejo.org/info/pri_esperanto.php?lingvo=en]Yeah, It's a language specifically designed to be a multinational second language. There's a webpage for it and everything.[/url]
Unless my skimming through the article made me misread it all.
At my high school a second language is not required :smug:.
[QUOTE=Athelus;19259509]W.C. ironically stands for Water Closet, but in france everyone seems to say that for a bathroom, without even knowing it's actually english.
One french friend even tried to teach me that 'cash' meant money, assuming that 'cash' was french slang.
[/QUOTE]
So it seems they're losing their language faster then us on the other side of the atlantic .... Yup French is bound to fade away..
Over here it's mandatory to learn a secondary language (not of your choice though) for about 7-8 years I think. I was supposed to learn Indonesian but I really can't remember much now.
[QUOTE=Mechanical43;19262231]So it seems they're losing their language faster then us on the other side of the atlantic .... Yup French is bound to fade away..[/QUOTE]
Actually, alot of American English is based on French, some of the Americanisms cropping up in France now actually originated there but died out, which I find amusing. Though i'm a language and politics student so i guess anything is amusing to me.
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