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I have a brother living in France,
I told him how I had struggled to learn French but couldn't
master it.
He told me how much he has noticed people can speak their
own language and English.

German and English, French and English, Spanish and English,
Japanese and English, Chinese and English etc. etc.
It's a good thing we have all those other languages to keep us
aware of how fortunate we are to be able to speak English.

He also told me how funny people in France think the 
Quebec stop signs are. Seems everyone in France knows Stop to
mean Stop. They can't understand why in Quebec they have "Arret-
Stop" on their stop signs. In France you are only required to stop once
at an intersection, but in Quebec, Canada you are required to stop twice.

Personally I give the Quebec French people three cheers. Keeping French
alive is a good thing. Variety is the spice of life.

-Island Beach

Deep Blue wrote:
> 
> Well, it's all your fault, english people! If only you were doing the same
> efforts to speak french that us french people do to speak english, those
> stats would be more fair for you.
> 
> 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 !
> 
> 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.
> 
> ~Deep Blue~
> 
> "Andrew Bestfrenn" <Andrewbestfrenn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c499781f.0304050425.47fd67db@posting.google.com...
> > Global National News with Kevin Newman audio link
> >
> > Hear audio of Global Television News story confirming
> > that 71% of all new hirings in the massive federal
> > public service are going to Francophones, and that 68% of
> > all job promotions are going to Francophones. Due to official
> > bilingualism, while Quebec is allowed to remain officially unilingual
> > French.  Francophones make up only a tiny fraction of the population
> > outside Quebec, yet we are allowing them to take over our federal
> > government.
> >
> > to hear the Global News audio
> > click here:
> > http://www.languagefairness.org/mp3/global.mp3
> >
> > to hear a tape of human rights expert Dr. Ritchie on this
> > topic go to:
> >
> > http://www.languagefairness.org/mp3/CFRA-Part1.mp3
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://www.languagefairness.org/mp3/3minclipDrRitchie04.mp3
> >
> > for further information:
> >
> >
> > www.languagefairness.org