Yaya. I agreed that english is not the most speaking language in this world. Its cantonise! since the china hav so much clivilian. And most of them should be talking in this language. And many many from other country. ^^
Yaya. I agreed that english is not the most speaking language in this world. Its cantonise! since the china hav so much clivilian. And most of them should be talking in this language. And many many from other country. ^^
Originally Posted by phakorn214
Most spoken first language maybe, however most speak is alot diffrent. Id say english is the most spoke because alot speak it as there second and third. Anyone who wants to make money with the west needs to speak english.
we would be speaking french right now
Why would they "have" to?
Why would you "have" to learn french because it's widely spoken (which it is) :)
Personally - the more languages I speak the better! but I would never think any less of someone just because they dont speak (or want to speak) my language - however:
French people are proud of their language, and even if they know English some of them will not speak it - I respect that *if I'm in France :)* - I'll adapt. But to force other people to do the same is a bit silly in my opinion.
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Yeah, try and get Gabrieth to speak english, hes from france :P.
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French is a way too hard language, unpractical and outdated. English ftw.
Maybe english is easier and "more practical". but some languages, like french, allow you to be more expressive :)
an international language is supposed to be an easy language everyone understands that allows basic and advanced discussions with the lowest ambiguity possible. If you want to be more expressive you have to find someone who has the patience to learn the language.
Mandarin.
cantonese is old languge...
all you peopel saying cantonese chinese is the msot popular are wrong. Cantonese is only spoken is some parts of china while almost everyone can speak mandarin in china
Cantonese = Spoken by a small amount of people off the south coast of China, AKA Hong Kong.
Mandarin = Will rule the world one day.
Yeah, we'll speak Mandarin if english ins't the international language, but i want French for int lang. But why not spanish? :P
Anyone who claimed english was the most common first language would be wrong. But it is the most common second lang, as well as being used for most international communications including air traffic control, world conferences etc...
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But I think this is what some people are talking about:
(from Lingua franca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, referenced from International English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)English is the current lingua franca of international business and air traffic control, and has displaced French as the lingua franca of diplomacy since World War II. It arguably was advanced by the role of English-speaking countries, in particular the United States, in the aftermath of the war.
it'd be pretty cool if japanese was used more than english. we could all learn some japanese :p
to be french i can guarantee you that english is better :/
It is more simple, you can learn the english language to be understand in 4 years in school, but the french language, even with 7 years, it is still difficult. Speaking in french is only useful in order to seduce, itil like that language is made for it :) that is all ^^
english is one of the hardest languages to learn.
and all thoes who think we'll be speaking mandarin right now, you have to remember that for that to happen then china would have had to discovered the other countries, which it didn't. Just cos a language is the most spoken, doesn't mean that everyone has to learn it.
more animes!!~
All this talk about french/spanish/mandarin
why not russian ? :P it's easy to learn, and you don't sound gay when you speak it ... (no offense...)
Even though I speak Danish as my first language, I accept that we have ONE language where we can all communicate. If the French don't wish to speak english, they must understand that people don't wanna make any kind of bussiness with them.
That's the same if a german comes to Denmark and starts speaking german to me. Should I start speaking danish to him and expect him to understand my language?
Hell no!!! I learned german and if I'm in germany I MIGHT bother speaking their language, but I believe it's bad morale. I don't expect anyone to learn my language. I like English and everyone should simply understand that we can't learn each others lang.
lol, latin would be cool :D
this is such a ridiculous sentence that I'm actually going to put it on my msn PM.
almost all verbs in english conjugate in only 2 ways:
I play
You play
He plays
we play
you play
they play
now in portuguese
Eu jogo
tu jogas
ele joga
nós jogamos
vós jogais
eles jogam
in spanish it's almost the same
in french
je joue
tu joues
il joue
nous jouons
vous jouez
ils jouent
Not to mention the "á à é è ê ã õ ô ó ò í ì" that doesn't exist in english and the grammar that is much more difficult in other languages.
Last edited by MuRdOc; 26-09-06 at 04:32 PM.
[QUOTE=MuRdOc;1608182]this is such a ridiculous sentence that I'm actually going to put it on my msn PM.
almost all verbs in english conjugate in only 2 ways:
I play
You playl
He plays
we play
you play
they play
now in portuguese
Eu jogo
tu jogas
ele joga
n
If English wasn't the international language ... The World Would Be A Far Sadder Place Since English Poons.
The Reason English Is So Hard Is Because We Have Words That Have No Relevance To What They Are Describing - For Example.
Cupboard - Cup Board - A Board For A Cup? NO You Silly Little Foreigner - It Means A Storage Compartment That Is Used To Store Household Stuff.
English is one of the simplest languages, since German, french and spanish all have english words somewhere in their dictonary, how ever Germans dont have french words do they?
In My Opinion, englsih is rahter easy, compared to some that have no connection with english whatsoever. Even Estonian is harder than english.
And Neculin, why not russian? because a) russian is ass-hard to learn.
and b) because it does sounds gay(at last to me)
nad if the international language would be something else, we would probably be talking why not english as international language for example.
Don't mean to kill this thread tho :P
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