German President succumbs to British empire, wants English as primary European language.
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[QUOTE=GREN EYGS N HAM;39687262]Would be great if everyone had to learn English and be good at it so you can actually communicate with other people when traveling within the EU.[/QUOTE]
If you scale this up to worldwide, the most spoken language is Mandarin.
Even Spanish is more popular than English.
Maybe we should all have to learn Mandarin and Spanish?
[QUOTE=deltasquid;39687758]It's true that a lot of people end up speaking decent or very good English, but only if they come in contact with it frequently. From my high school class, maybe 5 people out of 25 spoke fluent English, and that included me and my 2 best friends who play video games and have been in contact with English since we were 8 or so. The rest messed up pronunciation at almost every new word we had to learn, and it's an extreme chore to look up pronunciation every time you turn a page. It's simply not an issue we had when studying Dutch, German, French, Spanish or Italian.[/QUOTE]
I guess the advent of the Internet has helped a lot with this, I suppose English is a bit of a mess of a language, I just love how extremely adaptive and flexible it is.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;39687796]If you scale this up to worldwide, the most spoken language is Mandarin.
Even Spanish is more popular than English.
Maybe we should all have to learn Mandarin and Spanish?[/QUOTE]
This is based off the amount of countries that have a majority of people that speak it, in that case English is still the most popular.
Saying that, I'm pretty sure English is still considered to be the most spoken language by person, though estimates by different people seem to vary.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;39687796]If you scale this up to worldwide, the most spoken language is Mandarin.
Even Spanish is more popular than English.
Maybe we should all have to learn Mandarin and Spanish?[/QUOTE]
Mandarin is most widespread but far less compatible with other languages. Most languages at least share the basic alphabet with English.
Spanish is indeed spoken [I][B]SLIGHTLY[/B][/I] more than English, and I would say that it's more clustered and localized than English. When compared to Spanish, English is already considered more international, so I would easily choose it just for that reason.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;39687369]We must polish the Polish furniture.
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The Blessed Virgin blessed her. Blessed her richly.
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Actually, this one shows the interesting effect of the lack of accents over letters in English. In a lot of these, there's a 'verb' pronunciation with focuses towards the last syllable, and a noun that tends to have the whole word said equally (with the exception of blessed and blessed and a few others). Maybe when English still had accents (read an old copy of the Bible), it was easier to pronounce?
Now British tourists can shout at people in English slowly for a reason!
"YOU MEANT TO SPEAK ENGLISH. UNDERSTAND"
UKIP and farage wouldve never let this happen
the english language is for english people [i]only![/i]
[QUOTE=download;39687216]Over the dead body of France.
They won't like this[/QUOTE]
We beat Bonaparte we can beat zombie Bonaparte.
Goddamnit no.
I want my german, how else can I speak flowers and honey while sounding angry?
[QUOTE=Zeke129;39687796]If you scale this up to worldwide, the most spoken language is Mandarin.
Even Spanish is more popular than English.
Maybe we should all have to learn Mandarin and Spanish?[/QUOTE]
Mandarin is mostly confined to Asia, Spanish is mostly confined to South America and (obviously) Spain.
English is widespread as a primary or secondary language throughout North America, Europe, Oceania, and parts of Asia.
ROFL good fucking luck with that
meanwhile while i scored 99/100% on english tests and exams most of the people my age don't even know how to start a fucking conversation in english
Man, you rarely hear about the German [B]president[/B] doing much.
Most of the times it's the chancellor.
I like this proposition though.
English is my second language and I never had a problem with pronouncing the words.
Though I do understand why the other languages has better spelling since they have those extra alphabets that tells you how to pronounce the letters in a word
I'm all for it. Even though I live and work in Austria, more of my colleagues speak English than German. They are from all over Europe.
[QUOTE=DrBreen;39688126]ROFL good fucking luck with that
meanwhile while i scored 99/100% on english tests and exams most of the people my age don't even know how to start a fucking conversation in english[/QUOTE]
Hence english should be taught as a primary language, everywhere.
I do hope one lingua franca will eventually replace *all* other primary languages. People shouldn't have to learn different langauges for living in different countries.
[QUOTE=Killuah;39687685]Joke's on the UK, the German President has jack shit to say in the German government, it's ,erely a representative function.[/QUOTE]
If it's a representative function, surely his function is to represent the wishes of the German government.
I hope aliens enslave us and force us to talk moonspeak so that the pretentious argument about what should be the universal language ends.
[QUOTE=ijyt;39688270]If it's a representative function, surely his function is to represent the wishes of the German government.[/QUOTE]
He pretty much has the same amount of power as our Queen, albeit maybe slightly more. Pretty pointless office really.
English is my 3rd language but I use it more than the other two. Imo english should be taught everywhere and from very young age. It is (relatively) easy and simple compared to many other languages like german or such. Grammar is much simpler, so are the words, it is already very popular especially when it comes to tech like computers and internet. English would be great as a worldwide language that most people knew.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;39688316]English is my 3rd language but I use it more than the other two. Imo english should be taught everywhere and from very young age. It is (relatively) easy and simple compared to many other languages like german or such. Grammar is much simpler, so are the words, it is already very popular especially when it comes to tech like computers and internet. English would be great as a worldwide language that most people knew.[/QUOTE]
It would make sense to make it so, it got spread to a third of the world during the British Empire and continues to be dominant in many countries, with French probably second to it.
Pretty much everyone in Europe already knows English, except for France.
[QUOTE=deltasquid;39687339]The only thing that annoys me about English is how its spelling is the absolutely most retarded thing I have ever witnessed in any language, ever. The grammar is simple and effective, and it has a beautiful, wide range of vocabulary. But the fucking [i]spelling[/i] is shit. It's like half of the time, the words aren't pronounced the way they're written and anyone studying English has to haphazardly guess "I think this I in this word might be pronounced as "Aye" or as "eeh", but I'm not sure"[/QUOTE]
Which is why the finnish language is the true language of mankind.
[QUOTE=dunkace;39687249]Well I should think so, I mean we only had one of the largest empires ever seen and won both world wars.[/QUOTE] The second war you would've lost had the Yankees not come in.
[QUOTE=smeismastger;39688708]Which is why the finnish language is the true language of mankind.[/QUOTE]
Every Finnish person I've ever heard the voice of bursts out laughing every other sentence.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;39688234]Hence english should be taught as a primary language, everywhere.
I do hope one lingua franca will eventually replace *all* other primary languages. People shouldn't have to learn different langauges for living in different countries.[/QUOTE]
Some languages have words which don't appear in other ones.
You throw away the language you're throwing away a means to communicate which may not be possible in another way.
In bulgarian there is some word like "ligloo" you'll be hard pressed to find a concise translation to english. In the himlayas theres languages with words which cannot be translated.
+ even if you make everything one universal language, dialects will pop up. Some places in the uk have trouble understanding each other because the dialects differ. People will mix in words from their own language, it will be dynamic but you'll still need to do some learning if you wish to fit into a place.
[QUOTE=Shibbey;39688728]Every Finnish person I've ever heard the voice of bursts out laughing every other sentence.[/QUOTE]
This is most likely because most of us are drunk. Ha.
Hell, English has pretty much become what Esperanto aspired to be, so that's not a surprise.
So I was looking up why English is so hard to learn, and I guess it's partly due to English being so widespread early on, they took up a lot of spelling and pronunciation from a lot of different language groups. So the words they picked up, they just streamlined it to coincide with the words that they already had. I guess that would explain why pronunciation could be different for words that should seem to sound the same. Then people just wrote it all down and made a dictionary, in simplest terms.
[QUOTE=proch;39687462]Well at least Poland might freaking start to learn english.[/QUOTE]
My english teacher in 1st grade was from Poland
[QUOTE=Shibbey;39688728]Every Finnish person I've ever heard the voice of bursts out laughing every other sentence.[/QUOTE]
Your disaster of a sentence is enought evidence that english language needs to be put out of it's misery.
Tulevaisuus kuuluu Suur-Suomelle, kuolema kapitalismille, valta sosiaalidemokratialle ja Kekkoselle.
English has the upper hand over most languages due to the fact that it does not assign genders to inanimate objects. Genders can fuck right off, especially in languages like Romanian, where literally every contraction, preposition, adjective, and article has a masculine and feminine form.
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