Frankie SaxxIt's now 'Anglo linguistic privilege & cultural dominance threatened! Attack the French!' O'clock.
Just waiting for 'This is the internet, we speak ENGLISH here, comprende?'
#mastodrama alert; popcorn at the ready
Frying Dutchman@frankiesaxx Well it's kind of frustrating to not be able to understand half of the federated timeline, and almost everyone understands English. I'm not saying everyone should speak English, but it sure makes it easier to understand and connect with everyone
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKThis "everyone understands English" is a comparatively new mindset (perhaps introduced by the Internet and USA culture?)
When I attended high school (1983-1990) in UK students were expected to at least learn French, albeit a very basic and formal type.
I can read most of the toots but a bit shy to reply in French [j'ai peur d'écrire en "le Français de Tony Blair" ] 😀
This requirement was stopped in UK schools in mid 2000s (which I think is a great mistake).
@vfrmedia @frankiesaxx
Yeah in the Netherlands most high school students have to learn French (it's required for everyone at at least the two highest tiers of education).I dropped it though, so my last French class was three years ago, so what's left of my French isn't great :p
Yeah in the Netherlands most high school students have to learn French (it's required for everyone at at least the two highest tiers of education).I dropped it though, so my last French class was three years ago, so what's left of my French isn't great :p
@Vonk @frankiesaxx it appears though everyone in FR, NL and DE *has* to learn English all through high school (+tries to learn it independently) whereas in UK learning languages is now much less common amongst younger people.
was disappointed I couldn't study computer science *and* German in school after 1987 (resource limitations), only when the Internet became available was I able to rediscover learning other languages online. Linguistic diversity here is a very good thing IMO 😎