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One can read the french language without being french.
by _kyran 6y ago
One can read the french language without being french.
- maebert 6y agoPro tip: memorize the “stop words” (ie closed word classes: prepositions, pronouns, determiner, function words, modal verbs) of romance languages and you’ll be able to comprehend almost all simple text in all of them. “Trust me, I’m European”.
- pelasaco 6y agoSure, many Canadians do it everyday ;) Beside it, there are 300 million French speakers worldwide today, up almost 10% since 2014, and a recent survey showed that 44% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. By 2050, a full 85% of French speakers could live on the continent, according to an estimate by an organisation that monitors statistics on who speaks the language.