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Frenchposting (or refusing to do so) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Germany's 2nd most spoken language is English, by 32% of the population.

Germany's 3rd most spoken language is French, by 9% of the population.

France's 2nd most spoken language is English, by 24% of the population.

France's 3rd most spoken language is Spanish, by 9% of the population.

UK's 2nd most spoken language is French, by 16% of the population.

UK's 3rd most spoken language is German, by 5% of the population.

Source: https://languageknowledge.eu/

While you could say that France is a bit behind the curve in comparison with most other Northern European countries, native English speakers are far worse at learning any other language. I'm not even French, but the circle-jerk English speaking communities have about French people sometimes gets pretty embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

As someone from the UK, I absolutely do not think that 13% of the population can speak French to an acceptable level. I'd go as far as to say that 13% of the population can barely speak English to an understandable level...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The point is precisely that they are very capable and do speak the language, but they sometimes refuse to.

And yes, it's also a meme.