🚀 go-pugleaf

You are funny! You do business with Americans in.....spanish!!! lolol....

I do business with French in...arabic!

As we say in french: une poignée dans le dos?

News a écrit :

> > And we're all still Canadians (no i'm not a separatist). So who cares if
> > there's more francophones than anglophones??? Just learn the french
> language
> > and be bilingual and get hired / promoted too !
>
>     The problem goes further than that.  Other than the fact that French is
> the Official Second Language, what good is it the average Canadian?  I'm not
> trying to be a prick, I'm serious.  I can't think of a single point in my
> life where being fluent in French would have been beneficial.  We don't do
> business in French, we don't socialize in French, we don't do anything in
> French.  It's simply not a part of our lifestyle.  (Specifically in the
> West)
>
>     And what really annoys me is that the Federal Government feels that it's
> so extremely important to know a second language, but there is virtually no
> support for anything other than French.  I've spent thousands over the past
> couple of years on private Spanish classes, but there is no support
> whatsoever from the Federal Government.  If the classes are through a
> certified college or university you can claim Tuition, however school
> doesn't fit my lifestyle as I am in mid-career.  Instead, I found a
> certified teacher (A university professor) and do regular night classes.  I
> understand fully that French is our country's second language, but it just
> doesn't make that much sense to me to be pumpin 750 Million into French, and
> *nothing* into languages like Spanish or Chinese.  At the risk of
> infuriating any native French speakers reading this, I see speaking French
> as more of a novelty than a useful skill.  I've never been in a situation
> where knowing French would have been helpful, with the exception of French
> Class in High School!!  But I use my Spanish on a pretty regular
> basis....especially when dealing with clients in the United States.  Maybe
> my rant is pointless.....but I just wish there was a little more support for
> "Languages" as a whole, and not just "French".
>
> > And while I love english because it's a very practical and direct
> language,
> > french is so beautiful and poetic! It's worth to learn it just to read all
> > those french books.
>
>     If you're good with French, try out Spanish.  It should be "Easy" for
> you.  I know that I can understand a lot more written/spoken French now than
> before I started taking Spanish classes.  And then move onto the "Romance
> Languages" retarded stepchild.....German.  I've never heard such a brutal
> sounding language, although there are a few very interesting characterictics
> to it.