More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.