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Brian C
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French was the language of the Aristocracy in courts all over Europe centuries ago and the French will fight tooth and nail to preserve it. There is and has has been some unofficial dilution as in most languages.
As for the Brits going to various areas,unless they are incredibly stupid,they will learn French in order to live a proper life in their adopted country |
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Francoise
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English will never become the official language in any part of France no matter how many British flood here. It's simply impossible, the French will never allow this to happen. |
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Ranteater
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Not while the French live and breathe. They have in the past tried to eradicate Franglais phrases like "Le Weekend" etc. and certainly would never allow any other language to dominate.
As for drunkenness, well that will appear wherever we British land up, unfortunately. One of the joys of the continent is that you can go into any large town or city on a Saturday night and see virtually no yobs, drunks or fights (apart from the British tourists of course). |
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ambre
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What a crazy idea! I'm french and I've never heard of such things... Indeed, more and more british buy properties in some areas but French is always the official language everywhere! |
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bty44917007
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No it isnt true. Hope this helps. |
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boboy
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NO, il is not true. But, a lotof english have decided to buy a house and to stay in France. This movement began in the 70ties in "Dordogne". And now, when ou go in "Haute-Vienne", "Vienne", "Charente" , you will hear english speaking, you will find english newspapers very easily.
From Limoges, with the plane, you can go every day to England.
Andthe children go to school in France. Some want to be elected. (We vote on The 9th.): I've heard about 2 english in the "département de la Vienne" who want to be in the council of the town or village.
About drunkenness I didn't hear. |
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demoune
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it s false but in fact many french resident from this region particulary shoppers bakers butchers must learn english because there is so english comming
it s a good thing for all these old village which before had not activities
english give them a new life but house prices grew up |
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Guillaume
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false |
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Kossia
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No, and it's not going to be anytime soon, trust me, we love our language, and their are still lots of people that can't even say "hello" in English. |
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zafir
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It might be the language you most commonly hear in some places, but it will certainly never, ever, become the official language. |
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Bugs Bunny
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In many parts of the world, especially in tourist & business areas, English has become a second language or at least a common language (e.g. used by ppl who have different native languages). But the French even have a law prohibiting the use of non-French words in public documents so it's doubtful that English will become an official language of any part of France. I have been to the south of France and though quite a few ppl in the large museums and dept. stores can speak some English, it's really necessary to speak French. OTOH, don't be too harsh with English ppl speaking only English in France. In the US, there are ppl who come here from other countries and they refuse to learn English (but don't hesitate to apply for welfare, food stamps , free housing-- free to them but not free to the taxpayers). |
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