In Africa, French is more than a common language

[@bradavon]

"French could become the most spoken language in the world", only The French actually believe this 😂

[@lightscameras4166]

😂Look at the upcoming population boom in West Africa and high birth rate in French Muslims and then you won’t laugh as much. And this is coning from an English speaker.

[@bradavon]

@@lightscameras4166 I know but only a French person actually think French will become the most wildly spoken language globally. It will remain English unless Mandarin replaces it. I see this happening or at very least China will be become so dominant its expected we learn Mandarin for the same reasons millions learn English today. I can see French going up the ranking though, for exactly the reason there are more first language Spanish speakers to English. Birth rates are going down in English speaking countries.

[@davidesparza3637]

@@bradavon Half of English comes from French so they just count that.

[@bradavon]

@@davidesparza3637 maybe 😂

[@ismaeljedidi2248]

According to wikipidia, english had a growth of nearly 67% in the last decade. Whereas french is having a growth of more than a 120%. So it could be possible that in the near future french replaces english. Also Nigeria is making a program to make its citizens learn french to facilitate trade with its neighbors who speak french

[@salponce3368]

I love how the comment section is talking about French colonialism...yet no one is saying anything about the reason there are so many English speakers...it ain’t from sheer love of the language!

[@niceshotmano]

A little ironic that the French are talking about the expansion of French language in English, vrai?

[@bradavon]

Because its a video about the French language, plenty of videos about English around the world which make this point. Same with Spanish and Portuguese 🤷‍♂️

[@bradavon]

Because French is only associated with France but English is not only associated with Britain. Not even close to.

[@niceshotmano]

@@bradavon I hear you, but it's a little deeper (err Machiavellian) than that, and I say this as someone fascinated with the French/Spanish/Portuguese languages. Curious about your take on the thoughts below: France 24 is absolutely interested in restoring French's status as a lingua franca, several other videos are also slanted this way. Macron has said as much with the soft power initiatives to bolster the francophonie in Africa and elsewhere. France 24 is French state media. To this point, France 24 offers English and Spanish content - this is a testament to the status of these languages, that they have respectively reached lingua franca status for certain demographics. I've yet to see France 24 in Portuguese. In the cases of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, I do not see the governments posturing as defensively as France. This could be in part due to the fact that the languages have grown incredibly, especially when we look to Spanish. I could be mistaken, but I've yet to see Brazil/Portugal establishing state-backed schools abroad to promote the Lusophone sphere of influence. There was a Reform to standardize some of the language maybe some 20 years ago, but I do not see initiatives to instruct the language. Spain is pretty similar, I've seen that it seeks inter-regional standardization through the RAE, but there isn't a need to 'push' the language to growth, it's happening organically.

[@forrestvandyke5874]

@@niceshotmano The Portuguese government does push to promote the Portuguese language, but the efforts are pretty tepid compared to those of France. There are Portuguese government-backed schools in Macau, Timor-Leste, Maputo, and Luanda, but otherwise, Instituto Camões is the main instrument for promoting Lusophone influence. Brazil invests even less in projecting influence than Portugal. From what I can tell, I'd agree that growth of the Portuguese language in Africa seems "organic" and is mostly a result of migration patterns and voluntary consumption of Brazilian pop culture/media.

[@theunknown2470]

Hmmm. One must think of a reason why. Oh. Years of colonisation

[@HairoxxFR]

and english? India Australia , new zeland botswana kenya south africa ?

[@loveofgodandallhiswonderfu2053]

No You only you dream we speack our language Arabic we only study french for work Because all our besnises with Europe is closer to us Some of us no complete School they no know speack french and no care because they work other jobs Manuel

[@loveofgodandallhiswonderfu2053]

Study is other things about empire we Arabs rules south Europe more than 800 years and Spain have more than 4000 words in Spanish language and french too they gave many words Arabic Italian too have many words about Malta is similar to Arabic .

[@neezduts69420]

Then why don't they stop speaking French lol

[@tideghost]

Sounds like someone is mad.

[@phatrickmoore]

wish it was subtitled and not dubbed!!!!

[@usuarioyoutube2000]

Well observed

[@marksterling7085]

French Invasion is generally the purpose of implementing this language.

[@george3470]

What about the Arabic invasion in the 7th century?

[@tideghost]

Do you have any idea why we speak English?

[@baygizz]

@@george3470 If there had been an Arab invasion, countries in Africa would not speak French now. ;)))

[@baygizz]

@@tideghost We speak English because it is a global language. But people in Africa speak French because they are exploited.

[@gonkfart]

@@baygizz Yes.. and english is a global language because many indigenous people were forced to learn english in residential schools to make it a universal colonial language

[@ossa2518]

For who says that French is the language of colonization and we should replace it by English, isn't english a colonization language too? Today people speaks English because they were colonized: USA, Australia, Nigeria,South Africa they were all english colonies. I'm Moroccan and I'm perfectly bilingual in French and Arabic, my parents thought me french since I was a kid and now is one of my native's languages. Here in north-Africa the bilingualism French-Arabic is the best thing for us.

[@Rabidanti]

They re both colonial Languages. But nowadays English is a global language and doesn't necessarily hold ties to the colonial power. English is used by Africans to talk to the world. French is used by Africans to talk to France

[@JM-nt5ex]

@@Rabidanti They are the same, really. Anglophones just love forcing their languages on people and have used that trait to convince people that english is necessary to success. English kills culture, french lives with it

[@Rabidanti]

@@JM-nt5ex I agree. Nigerians complain why can't Senegal and others speak English. It's like the american and British mentality tbh. Calling for the supremacy of English. But I still don't care about this and believe English is way better than French as its way wider. How does French live along culture and English kills it? Don't they do the same?

[@JM-nt5ex]

@@Rabidanti In America French speakers lived alongside natives, Creoles, Spanish speakers for years and everything was fine, people learned french by choice, but they didn't have to, cultures lived. But when English comes around it's nothing but prejudice, suffering, and sometimes violence until it comes out on top. In countries that use the English language cultures inevitably die, or they get stamped out. I do not care if English is the lingua franca so long as the mentality disappears that we must only speak English and we must only live in an anglophone culture wherever it's influence grows.

[@JM-nt5ex]

@@Rabidanti French is usually just a lingua franca wherever it goes, whereas English is a dominating force of intolerance. I would even take Spanish over the trail of cultural genocide Anglophones leave behind

[@lightscameras4166]

All the anglophones here are hating on French and French colonialism and yet don’t give the same treatment to English. Both are colonial languages. Both are important to future world history. Try applying to a job in international offices like Geneva and Vienna without knowledge of French. They will kick you out 😂 English is a colonial language too, and no, just because it’s a “global lingua franca” doesn’t mean that other lingua francas don’t exist alongside. English, French, Arabic and Spanish are all international languages for a reason. None of these has any chance of dying out

[@connormurphy683]

My beef with the video isn't about how French spread. I agree that colonization isn't something that only some cultures are capable of. My beef is about its current status. Most African countries have their own vernacular that is more widely spoken than French, but French is still the only language for anything important like jobs, government, media etc. So French forms an unnecessary complicating and dividing layer, preventing development of other languages and making those things inaccessible. It's also funny that you should mention Arabic, as French is still the preferred language in many Arab countries. There are many fields where you cannot study in Arabic. Now obviously this is really on the people in charge in those countries themselves, not the French, (as well as the reality of the leadership of the first world), but the French state and OIF sure seem to love taking advantage of this situation. Same thing with English in India and Africa btw. I'm really not trying to be partial. I speak and read French, I appreciate the language and the high number of cultures, countries and domains it opens up to me. I'm not calling for an erasure of French in Africa, because there is such an inequality between Africa and Europe, but let's get our priorities straight. Also, all this is separate from a critique of French neocolonialism and "Francafrique".

[@ThisisFerrariKhan]

Outside of Arabic, due to its origin being an African language, English Dutch German French Danish Hungarian Italian Spanish Portuguese were all colonial languages. And I’m sure I’m missing two more like Czech or Finnish or one of those other random colonial countries that don’t like to talk about their origin of their modern wealth.

[@connormurphy683]

@@ThisisFerrariKhan when did Hungary hold colonies? And czechia and Finland didn't either. Imperialism is a human instinct not just european

[@ThisisFerrariKhan]

@@connormurphy683 there’s a list of colonial countries and an Eastern European one was Hungary. The other two I named were to give examples of the other two random countries that were involved that I don’t remember the exact countries but were of Scandinavian origin. Reread my comment.

[@connormurphy683]

@@ThisisFerrariKhan I do not recall Hungary ever having a colony. Finland was actually one country that was occupied by other Europeans for a long time and suffered because of it, while czechia was part of the Austrian empire and not allowed to pursue its own policy. Ireland is one country that was very much colonized by the British and went through a lot even recently. Assuming that all Europeans are colonizers just makes you look dumb, no offense.

[@seanford8140]

How could there possibly be only 335 million english speakers. There are at least 300 million english speakers in the US alone (an estimated 1 in 10 American's doesn't speak english fluently). And there are at least another 100 million between Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK and Canada. Plus all of the others worldwide fro business, coding, science, ect. These facts don't pass the smell test!

[@pablodelatorregalvez4260]

There're over 400 million native English speakers and around 1.5 billion total English speakers.

[@cerbzzz7147]

Sean Ford because a large portion of America and other countries are immigrants

[@saiberunato]

I think in determining the # of so called "native" English speakers, they likely used a much more stringent approach. They probably surveyed if a person speaks English at home. That can be deceiving especially for English speaking countries that have large immigrants populations. You could be someone born in an English speaking country or arrived there as a child. You grew up there. However your parents or grandparents continue speaking in their native language, so you speak to them in that other language when at home. However you yourself speak English as your primary language. It's the language you feel most comfortable with. You grew up with it. You use it everyday. You chat on the phone with it. You surf the net with it. You text in it. You literally think in English. You feel in your heart you're a native English speaker. You're American, Canadian, British, Australian, New Zealander, etc. You could be born in the UK - the children of South Asian, Nigerian, Egyptian, Polish immigrants. You could be born in the US - the children of Mexican, Colombian, Cuban, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Filipino immigrants. You could be born in Australia, the children of Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Yugoslavian, Indonesian immigrants. But yet you're not counted as a "native" English speaker for the reason I mentioned. I myself, being the child of non-native speaking immigrants, am in the exact same position.

[@davehasenford3985]

You also know of the smell test?

[@warriorqueen863]

And Philippines too. English is a major language here but I like to speak another language like French too.

[@aintnoslice3422]

ironic, that this is all being done in english

[@GrosPointRouge]

Ain't no Slice The interviews were in French. Also, just in case you missed it, this is France 24 ENGLISH.

[@aintnoslice3422]

+Gros Point Rogue Exactly. Done in french, and had to be translated over to ENGLISH! France (french) 24 ENGLISH. French has lost out to english. They love their language (even though they apparently hate foreigners speaking it), and i do too, but its always going to loose out to english. 1815 marked the end of french political, cultural and linguistic dominance.

[@manuelpanisse5991]

Ain't no Slice youre a bit wrong on that last sentence. The french languages dominance waned in favor of english a hundred years later, after ww1. French was written on british passports up until 1850 alongside english. The reason why the switch happened was after ww1 the multiethnic empires of europe like the german empire , austria-hungary and tsarist russia broke down. These empires were ruled by aristocracies, the language of european nobility was french. But because the relevance and importance of nobility disappeared after ww1 because these conservative monarchies ceased to exist, the importance of french began to slowly shrink. Just a correction to your comment.

Well, it's a program aimed at English speakers, what did you expect?

[@Kaiserbill99]

It is ironic. Ignore some of the comments. Having a similar British show in French would be an absolute irrelevance.

[@dadada486]

Isn't it a bit ironic that everyone talking about French being a colonisers language is using English... Is it because they consider English to be the de facto global language?

[@menolarose]

Yeah it's like British Empire didn't exist

[@EvilSmonker]

Nearly 1 billion people speak at least basic English, and I highly doubt that the African French of the lower classes is anything like fluent French in France. English will stay the defacto lingua Franca until Mandarin becomes compulsory to all subjects of China...

[@Rabidanti]

English and French are colonial Languages BUT lets face it, English is a global language. French is used for Africans to talk to FRANCE. English is used by Africans to talk to the whole world.

[@gaipa2006]

It's because Britain did not colonize their country that's why. For example, Algeria was colonized by French so they love Britain because it did not colonize them.

[@Rabidanti]

@@gaipa2006 Nah, Countries colonised by Britain don't hate the English language. They love it! Because nowadays knowing English is beneficial. Look at Singaporeans, a lot of their kids have English as first language because their parents think it will be better for their future.

[@zoefofo7769]

It's a lack of couragement. France doesn't invest in francophone countries in a way that would encourage them

[@menolarose]

@@googleaccount93 Yeah because English has nothing to do with colonization

[@colombe6527]

@@googleaccount93 French isn't as much spoken as english, that's a fact, but it still is an international language. If you want them to speak another language because french is too colonial, don't talk about english knowing the reasons why this language became international lmao

[@booboobunny5655]

Pramod Dubey French is still more sophisticated and English is a boring language used for business. Educated people are multilingual and cultured, therefore I think Africa should learn French.

[@longball756]

It’s not that they don’t but merely that France doesn’t really have the economic power.. also since U.S utterly dominates the global economy, everything is becoming anglicized unfortunately.. hopefully French continues to grow- as it is one of the few international languages that can compete (well atleast play in the same ball field) with English and its monolinguistic beastiality

[@whitneyshiphrah56]

@@booboobunny5655 just listen to urself. So u mean Africans don't have their own sophisticated languages? And how is English boring when people of different cultures have accepted English and created their own vernacular forms (eg. African Americans who speak AAVE, Afro Caribbeans who speak Patois/Creole and West Africans who speak pidgin)?

[@coddiwomple9510]

It is not so much the amount of people that speak a language but the common global usefulness of the language. English already fills the role of the world's common tongue. But the French can still be proud because many English words and terms have French origins. So to say in English that English is the lingua franca of the world is both ironical and a compliment to French.

[@GenZ_Zillenial]

Its called colonialism & Neo-colonialism.

[@Clery75019]

Same goes with Spanish, Portuguese or English speakers in the Americas, Africa, Asia or South Pacific. Why singling out French?

[@quantasium]

Metr0politan92 Because France still maintains an iron grip on its “former” colonies.

[@Clery75019]

@@quantasium Countries which want to keep ties with France does. Countries which don't want don't. It's entirely the responsibility of each specific country and the relationship widely differs from one country to another.

[@Clery75019]

@Indian Stars All of Spanish, Portuguese and English are also taught as a 2nd language in Africa. And French is spoken as native language in Quebec.

[@quantasium]

@Indian Stars Unfortunately, French has become the native language of Africans in many of the nations on the continent. Not only is it the first language many children learn, but they barely, if at all, learn their native African tongue. The French language has become such a powerful influence in west Africa that the language itself is becoming Africanized. I wouldn’t be surprised if African French develops into an entirely new language like Afrikaans in the next century.

[@PRmoustache88]

I tried speaking French to my Vietnamese professor at university, but he gave me a sour face. He spoke some French to me in saying that my accent needed improvement and that French in Vietnam était pas nécessaire depuis longtemps. English is good enough. Silly me. Quelle godiche.

[@tsmariexox]

French was the universal language in the world a long time ago. Now its english.

[@movii.i]

Marie Curly Im not really sure actually. It kind of confuses me because life originated from Africa

[@tsmariexox]

@@movii.i i dont know lol but french is spoken in several regions of Africa😉

[@tsmariexox]

@@thehourglassfan3515 no sorry but french have more word and its more complicated... Thats why... English is the easier language in the word...

[@leafeatingcow1109]

@@tsmariexox Africans were forced to speak it tho. They spoke their own languages with it too. Most africans know on average 3 languages. Their tribal language, local language, and a european language.

[@hazel0963]

French used to be common in Ottoman

[@carsonmaster4638]

Hahaha that is not right. If French has a total of 274 million speakers in the world, that would put English at about 1.5 billion total speakers in the world. The only reason why French will be the number 1 most popular is because of the population of Africa. Otherwise, only parts of Western Europe and Quebec are French speaking provinces and countries.

[@danieljonathanmartin]

I’m afraid it is you that is not right. There’s a million French speakers in the South Pacific (e.g. gens Nouvelle Calédonien) and many many more in places such as Guyane. Sûre, it’s not as commonly spoken as English, but a major worldwide language nonetheless

[@carsonmaster4638]

Daniel Martin forgot to mention places in the South Pacific and Other countries such as French Guiana. I’m just trying to say that the majority of French speakers are in Europe and Africa. The South Pacific has a small number and even the overall French speaking world is still not as big as others.

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

@sebastian bündchen Malay-Indonesia it about 300 Million (Malaysia 33 Million Population, Brunei 500,000+, Indonesia 270 Million, Southern Thailand 5 Southernmost Thailand, Majority Malay province 1 million, Singapore, Malay population about 700,000+, Cocos Island, Australia 5000+), Hindi-Urdu Speaker Pakistan-India about 600 Million. L1 and L2(Indonesia and Malaysia belong to Austronesian family, L1 speak Javanese, Sundanese, or Balinese it cousin language, Pakistan and India belong to Indo-Aryan like Sindhi, Kashmiri, Punjabi etc close language, no problem to speak Hindi-Urdu). Unlike Afrika L3 Speaker maybe not fluently in French because L1 is Arabic, L2 Berber/Tuareg both Belong to Afro-Asiatic family, in West Africa Senegal, Mali they speak Niger-Congo language. Spanish are more population, because most of native language died out most of Native speak Spanish, unlike French. French L1 and L2 maybe around 150 Million. In Morocco, Algeria, Tunisa, not all speak French but Arabic. except in Mali, Ivory Coast local culture are not strong, and do not have own architecture, that why West Africa easily to follow and love French.

[@ashokathegreat4534]

@@danieljonathanmartin Major worldwide language because its only important in France, some African countries and Quebec.

[@BomDia759]

French in europe is just one of many languages. It's spoken more or less like italian in europe

[@nawfalism]

Nowadays, more and more Africans are dedicating time to studying English as a second language.. governments are working on shifting theirs focus towards English as they see French as an obsolete language particularly in science, technology and business.. I think English will replace French in Africa soon.

[@arnaudpayet6173]

Sources ?

[@philipcoriolis6614]

Chinese most probably will because languages follow guns.

[@Murakuc-hf2hu]

I really hope that French gets removed from Africa

[@janejustin1788]

which African countries are those???

[@thato596]

Yes you right. Rwanda people now know english and they learn all subjects in english in school. Their focus is African languages and english. They have realised english is important than french. Even in france they learning english

[@jeaneloi4624]

French is just a language like many others. A way of communication. Nothing more nothing less.

[@horusba2620]

Nonsense

[@LamontBoucherville]

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@siononalundula1699]

salman bah what is it to you?

[@tideghost]

@@horusba2620 someone's mad about colonialism.

[@mint8648]

Francafrique stronk! 🇬🇳🇫🇷

[@shawnreed7876]

This isn't accurate. English, Mandarin and Hindi are the world's three most spoken languages.

[@user-ts1gj9wb6u]

Shawn Reed Arabic also in the race probably.

[@ಠಿ_ಠಿ-ಝ2ರ]

I am from India and everyone in our India does not even speak Hindi!

[@ashokathegreat4534]

@@ಠಿ_ಠಿ-ಝ2ರ He said its a major language, stop being offended you tamil

[@m.b.nagaraj7666]

​@@ಠಿ_ಠಿ-ಝ2ರ Every year One Crore literates are coming out of Schools in India. In 2050 Hindi become powerful language in the world

[@Robin-bk2lm]

24 has to be careful this is not spin for promoting French.

[@viviananorambuena2829]

I'm from Chile, here is so weird to find someone who speaks english, even though in all latin america we study english in school, imagine how many people know french, nobody! Not even the 1% of every country here

[@user-hv1cq1lw1l]

OK I can still make sense of what you've written, despite it being obviously not the kind of English a native speaker would write. I'm actually happy to see that English is not (yet) mastered with general high proficiency in Latin-America, for I would really love to travel there someday and greet people by saying "Ola" or "Hola" instead "Heeeeellouuu" (i.e. the American way). The "Latin spirit", you know what I mean, that warm enthusiasm towards all beautiful things in life, can only survive as long as the "Hola"s resist the invasion of the "Hell-llow"s. Similarly for other countries / cultures. Btw I'm Cantonese.

[@AnonTriple]

South America is different to Africa though. Most South Americans speak Spanish. Many Africans speak French. The video is saying that Africa has the highest birth rate in the world and the countries in Africa that have the highest birth rates are francophone countries. Countries that have a high population of French speakers. Using statistics high birth rates create more babies creates more people speaking the language of their parents therefore making the French language grow. What's so hard for people to understand that? Western countries, Latin countries, even Asian countries seem to have a slower birth rate compared to African countries

[@Ivanmaradonaaa]

@@user-hv1cq1lw1l Knowing English and English being your first language is very different, Spanish won't stop being Hispanic America first language even though they may learn English

[@guillaumemartin9295]

What's your point? Why would they know French over there?

[@domicioannioulpiano6845]

Wena vivi!

[@captainjosue]

Mandarin is only spoken in China. Few people outside China care to speak any Chinese language. Meanwhile, Spanish, French, Arabic and especially English are spoken in many parts of the world. Far more places than China.

[@rexscipio3344]

Your point is? At one point it was Latin. It will change as the West loses influence.

[@snoopdogg7407]

@@rexscipio3344not at all. the west, namely the US is still culturally dominant in the world. Even then, mandarin is too difficult for a large amount of people compared to english being easier to learn.

[@Damian-qv6wh]

But you’ll find a Chinese community or china town in just about anywhere in the world lol

[@justjules2029]

@@Damian-qv6wh. You’re find a Little Italy too.

[@raveoli1898]

i'll argue arabic is in a similar situation to china as arabic is mainly confined mostly to the islamic states and countries with large muslim populations

[@jason4275]

Learning French is a fun Activity, the language sounds beautiful, but No one especially English speaking people is learning French full time to communicate in the world the richest and most influence, smartest people either speak or already learn English as a forum of worldwide communication.

[@samtreftz864]

No I'm learning to communicate with those of Africa who are non English speaking because it's easier than learning dozens of languages by regions

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

Haha my thoughts exactly. I'm learning French because it's fun, not useful.

[@arnaudpayet6173]

It's always fun to see how a lot of english speaking people see the other languages. In a world where you have to be bilingual, unlingual people will be a minority and will be at their costs

[@perbergman8762]

Most english speakers learn french since they don't want to be typical monolingual boring english speakers. French is also exotic and romantic.

[@austinelankazeku184]

I'm learning French because of it sounds pretty to me,anyone French speaking English person willing to be a friend,really need a French speaking friend to help me practice, Merci

[@heaty007]

France needs colonial customer service. The empire develops throughout.

[@PRmoustache88]

True enough. America needs Spanish. In a sense Africa is France's backyard as much as Latin America is the same to America.

[@ungrateful-66]

BILLIONS of people speak English! Signs in RUSSIA, CHINA, and INDIA are commonly written in English! YES, French is a NECESSITY, and can’t imagine not knowing both English and French. I learned Spanish too but hardly ever need it unlike English and French.

[@diegorodrigovelasquezmeniz8026]

English and French = African languages

[@seybertooth9282]

It's interesting how many xenophobic anti-French comments there always are under these videos (the English version only, of course, because racists only speak one language, usually English). It seems most of these originate from Americans (and the odd Little Englishman) who usually have never set foot in France and certainly don't speak French. The effect these comments have on me? Makes me like the French and despise Americans even more.

[@chickennuggets4480]

I don’t hate French people, I hate the government for what they’ve done to Africa.

[@justjules2029]

“despise Americans (even more)” Clearly you already had your mind made up.

[@sosa9220]

Considering the racist things many French people and specifically the government have said and done, it would be wise for you not to limit racist only to Anglophones. This whole “American and Anglophones are only racist” excuse is getting annoying

[@autosneak1618]

@@sosa9220 don't bother with the self important French media influenced "people", they are at the very peak of human hypocrisy

[@syedmohammadaanasfarukh7549]

Indeed. It is a symbol of colonialism.

[@tideghost]

Just like English, idiot.

[@mossakis]

If I visit Algeria 🇩🇿, I will speak French 🇫🇷 and a little basic words and phrases in Arabic !!!

[@mint8648]

me too

[@abdullahsaleh8600]

Why not learn a bit Arabic? I mean like basic Arabic 😅

[@mossakis]

@@abdullahsaleh8600 Sure I will speak basic Arabic, but French are more common in Algeria and are useful. Because of being the only French speaker on my family, I believe and I hope that I will visit Algeria.

[@mossakis]

@the virtuous man The most Algerian people, live in France. So they learn French easily than Arabic.

[@mossakis]

@the virtuous man Algerians in Algeria speak both French and Arabic. The tourists, who I had seen, we're living in Algeria, they said to me that in schools, children learn French..

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

and they don't learn their own native language which is berber lol

[@kayliahngl1578]

There are more berberophon that what u think

[@lethalace9076]

Its called amazigh not berber 😐

[@connormurphy683]

lethal ace the language is tamazight. Amazigh = berber person, imazighen = berber people

[@ricardo7308]

@@googleaccount93 we weren't assimilated, we are the result of a mix between Spaniards and the natives, also the blacks who came from Africa. The "latinos"(which is a incorrect term to refer to us) are the result of that mixture we often call "mestizaje" so we weren't assimilated. The Africans were assimilated because they are still africans, Europeans didn't mix themselves with the natives of Africa, they just imposed them their culture, unlike us, we were never native americans.

[@inlovewithqueenjihyo4883]

Tf are you talking about , we learned in school, plus it's amazigh, and we speak Arabic bc it's the language of our religion so educate yourself

[@ihebouesleti1165]

Believe me in Tunisia the new generation don't use and don't speak French anymore

[@user-ts1gj9wb6u]

Iheb OUESLETI What do they speak then. I hope its not Arabic or is it??

[@ihebouesleti1165]

@@user-ts1gj9wb6u we are always speaking Arabic its our first language but with foreigners we use English

[@ihebouesleti1165]

@Pepe the Frog lol we are culturly Arabs not French the question is why we speak French

[@user-bx2ku3ic4k]

Tunisian youth is smart.

[@Cosmic0Baby]

@@user-ts1gj9wb6u" I hope it's not arabic" dude it's their mother tongue

[@seanjordan850]

If you're including second language speakers, English is over 2 billion. French will never come close to that

[@guillaumemartin9295]

nobody cares

[@cyrussabaee7907]

Guillaume Martin Your speak English You do care

[@AdityaKadamMechanical]

Wikipedia states (2017) : By total speakers 1 English Indo-European, Germanic 2 Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese) 3 Spanish Indo-European, Romance 4 Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu) Indo-European, Indo-Aryan 5 Arabic Afro-Asiatic, Semitic 6 Malay (incl. Indonesian and Malaysian) 7 Russian Indo-European, Slavic 8 Bengali Indo-European, Indo-Aryan 9 Portuguese por Indo-European, Romance 10 French Indo-European, Romance 11 Hausa Afro-Asiatic, Chadic 12 Punjabi Indo-European, Indo-Aryan By native speakers (2010/07): 1 Mandarin (entire branch) 935 (955) 14.1% 2 Spanish 390 (405) 5.85% 3 English 365 (360) 5.52% 4 Hindi 295 (310) 4.46% 5 Arabic 280 (295) 4.23% 6 Portuguese 205 (215) 3.08% 7 Bengali (Bangla) 200 (205) 3.05% 8 Russian 160 (155) 2.42% 9 Japanese 125 (125) 1.92% 10 Punjabi 95 (100) 1.44% 11 German 92 (95) 1.39% 12 Javanese 82 1.25% 13 Wu (e.g. Shanghainese) 80 1.20% 14 Malay (inc. Malaysian and Indonesian) 77 1.16% 15 Telugu 76 1.15% 16 Vietnamese 76 1.14% 17 Korean 76 1.14% 18 French 75 1.12% 19 Marathi 73 1.10% 20 Tamil 70 1.06% 21 Urdu 66 0.99% So French is nowhere near 5th most spoken. I think there was some mistake in the reporting.

[@manuelpanisse5991]

Aditya Kadam yeah they mixed up a bit, for some languages they counted total amount of speakers and for another language solely native speakers.

[@lovaaaa2451]

Yes, it's called lying.

[@guntassran5964]

Wikipedia is not a reliable resource as the information can be edited on Wikipedia

[@scasso4606]

Spanish 550 millions native speakers !!!

[@Мустафаиракский-я8ш]

Arabic actually 422 millions.

[@eliezerkraiman48]

French is not just the language of France if you want to be priminester in Canada you have to speak it. In fact 40 % of Federal government jobs require French, as do almost all dimploatic jobs canada has the 10th largest economy in the world and 20 % of its gdp is from Quebec. So I mean If Canadians who want to be diplomats have to learn French don't you think it in't Just France. Canada gives you 50 extra points if you speak both English and French , they have numrios French woorker programs and provide schooling to French speaking people( with some excpetions) in French.

[@jakamsoohia7492]

No wonder France keep taking African players. Where most French speaking people are from Africa rather from France

[@Msears__1]

It was befor but not now we love arabic and anglais

[@faridsmusic3312]

English*

[@vivianmakina106]

@@faridsmusic3312 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you just had to

[@faridsmusic3312]

@@vivianmakina106 😂😂

[@lovebl6728]

@@faridsmusic3312 lmao

[@faridsmusic3312]

@@lovebl6728 😂😂😂

[@kahlilsykies9139]

Unless you just don't know much about Africa. Then you can't not know that, French is widespread in many countries on the continent. Its really not news.

[@linkskywalker5417]

What is news, is that Arabic and Mandarin are more likely to have a billion speakers within 30 years than any other of the top 10 most spoken languages.

[@cerbzzz7147]

Link Skywalker mandarin and English already have billion speakers

[@attajacob]

African countries need to modernize their own languages and stop this colonial madness.

[@warsamek8275]

@@attajacob true but they wont they love their masters

[@karankaran-us9vm]

Ironically the French,British and Spanish don't speak any African language...poor africans

[@bri2930]

Why the hell would they? These African countries where colonised and English, French and Spanish are languages of business and commerce and also act as lingua franca against the multiple African languages

[@BF-bb5us]

@@bri2930 why the hell shouldn't they?! They were in their nations and African languages are just as important. Plus these African nations are propping up their economies do you know how much is extracted yearly?! What ignorance.

[@okothgum4301]

promoting imperial agenda

[@thiernoibrahimkeita3186]

Who is not

[@dubmait]

Ah thats not true. The English language is more of an imperial language

[@venome447]

I am Pakistani, I am very weak at speaking French (because it is not very common in Pakistan), but my pronunciation is almost accurate ... And I love French as a language ... and I would love to see France ... I have read the history of Lés Révolution Français, which inspired me to learn and love and respect the French language and culture ...

[@mohammedomer752]

Venome447 I am from Pakistan and I love French. I wanted to learn French but I was confused where to start. I use Duolingo and I am making steady progress.

[@venome447]

Mohammed Abdullah What is duolingo ??

[@sebastijanbarlek6033]

@@venome447 language learni g app and its free

[@Tunisianbeauties]

It is useless.. Waste of time and effort

[@maybethisismarq]

@@Tunisianbeauties why?

[@Jkemtranslators]

Kiswahili is the only language to remove all of the colonial languages

[@zeyadyahya1180]

But the name of the language is came from Arabic. Sawahil. And like 50 per cent of the vocabulary are came from Arabic.

[@philipcoriolis6614]

The Americas were never decolonized. This is the reason why English is the most spoken language with Spanish not far behind for the exact same reason.

[@philipcoriolis6614]

@Halfmoon26 Yes, a settlement.

[@philipcoriolis6614]

@Halfmoon26 You are playing with words.

[@philipcoriolis6614]

@Halfmoon26 I agree that killing almost everybody makes a huge difference in that the survivors are not strong enough militarily to ask you to leave. But it is still about a white colony in the Americas. Only that there is not enough surviving natives to revolt against you. Might is right.

[@philipcoriolis6614]

@Halfmoon26 That is playing with words again.

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

yes absolutely

[@westwild75]

EDUCATION SYSTEM IN TUNISIA 🇹🇳 MUST STEP UP TEACH ENGLISH INSTEAD of French Arabic English Spanish ,(Portuguese Italian ( French )optional France is a 3rd world 🌎

[@lisabertolucci5908]

These are the 3 MOST POPULATED and RICHEST countries in Africa; Nigeria, South-Africa and Egypt. None speaks French.

[@lisabertolucci5908]

BTW, the population of Nigéria alone is160 million. The population of the ENTIRE french-speaking Africa is 150 million.

[@stevencarrier2466]

Sounds like you have a case of Paris Envy.

[@lisabertolucci5908]

Débile, va !!!

[@ayomide1007]

In terms of rich, yes Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa is correct, but population no, Congo DR is more populated than south Africa and they speak French.

[@ayomide1007]

In terms of rich, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa is correct, but population no, Congo DR is more populated than south Africa and they speak French.

[@boycotchina8474]

Can you spell colonisation?

[@FairyCRat]

1:46 this is horribly misleading. 274 million is the total number of French speakers, native or not. Meanwhile, the figure for English clearly counts only native speakers, the massive number of non-native anglophones makes it easily outnumber Mandarin. If you only count native speakers, French has around 80 million. Not to mention how Hindustani was completely excluded from the list for some reason.

[@reubenz1480]

Wake up and smell the coffee. We are not in 1700. The top most impirtant languages are English, Chinese and Spanish. I woud even say that Arabic is as important if not more than French-same with Russian and Portuguese. So French is not really a game changer here.

[@reubenz1480]

@Enver Kemal dude in what dumb ignorant world do u live in? From the USA all the way down to Antarctica you will need spanish. Not to mention Europe, Africa and parts of Asia. On top of that the spanish speaking population is gigantic, the second natively spoken to be precise. On terms of economic development many of them are important players on the world stage so u too wake up and smell the coffee.

[@dommay499]

There is not only one Arabic but many. You also fail to capture an important point about French and the other languages.

[@dommay499]

@the virtuous man Yes, but can you confirm that all these Arabic peoples fail to understand themselves as they don’t resort to the same Arabic like the litteral arabic ?

[@dommay499]

@the virtuous man Great for you, but I would like to know about others ? I spoke to different peoples from Arabic countries or so-called like Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon and so on and what I understood is that they can’t understand what say each others along with peoples from countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc. Do you confirm this ?

[@Shel230]

@@reubenz1480 lol no u don't tf lol spanish is not needed and only really spoken in America's and 2 countries in eroupe therrs more French speakers cause there's more african people then spanish people

[@hicetnuncmonamour]

English has 40% of French origin words. French bashers may need a therapy ?

[@biaklawma1165]

😂😂 you joking?

[@linefrenette9116]

Exactly 👍🏼

[@jeb1413]

@@biaklawma1165 30%

[@megoyamle7]

in arabic we say and I quote: "الكلب مايحب الا خناقة"

[@arinjaidas1806]

There are 520 million hindi speakers in India. Get your facts straight baguette boy...

[@almadelatierra5153]

One word: franceafrique

[@bri2930]

If he can't speak English then how come he understands all her questions which are in English??

[@benelhajdahmenwael5063]

she is bilingual at least

[@bri2930]

@@benelhajdahmenwael5063 maybe

[@gi-bili-t7147]

Translator?

[@benelhajdahmenwael5063]

@@gi-bili-t7147 yes

[@anneneville6255]

There is a translator

[@lolalolalola3801]

Yeah because you colonized them lmao

[@aslwithanna7118]

Would you be able to install French subtitles/captioning in this video?

[@evandros.a5049]

in the past French was a língua franca in Brazil, but it's changed by English. people learned only grammar and vocabulary ( the same with English language today) , it was only educated people knew it. now Spanish advanced in system education and in the future Spanish will become a língua franca and will Change the English position.I know some people who learned French at school in the past.

[@katie-st8nx]

English-speaking countries are still much more economically dominant. It's here to stay.

[@diegorodrigovelasquezmeniz8026]

​@@katie-st8nxThe US has no oficial language. Canada is canadistan and Australia and New Zealand Will be both chinese, cuck.

[@mikasalove7419]

French is banned in Algeria

[@anthonymanderson7671]

People here are bashing french especially some africans who are doing the same in english. What a hypocrisy!!

[@ladyyang8040]

Why would any person in Africa want to speak French👌 after what they done in north Africa that sounds crazy to me😵

[@ladyyang8040]

@Pepe the Frog listen so called blacks is from Africa wake up👊 are you stupid its called the African slave trade don't write to me if you don't study historic history go to sleep quickly don't come to a Queen👑👑 with stupidity👌 p.s. the so called native black Americans came from Africa. The king sent ships from south Africa into the Atlantic ocean thousands of years before slavery just study Africa history its there its plain to see were the so called black native American's comes from it's Africa👌 please don't tell me you have the brain of a frog 🐸

[@EnglishTeacherRachid]

The majority of Moroccans hate French

[@elsasvenski1566]

@@EnglishTeacherRachidSo why do many Moroccans go to France?

[@EnglishTeacherRachid]

@@elsasvenski1566 used to!

[@arnaudpayet6173]

So... Why would any person in Africa want to speak english after what they have done ?

[@neezduts69420]

I knew reading the comments would be a stupid idea

[@Hamsafar_gasht]

For ones talking about rivalry between british and french: in 19th century UK was superpower but global lingua franca was french completely until WW1 and partially till WW2 the reason english is lingua franca is not 🇬🇧 but 🇺🇸 if America wasn’t around english would remain like french of today what makes a language global is mostly its cultural power

[@shelv9538]

True, but you're wrong about French being replaced by English as the world's lingua franca after WW1, the replacement happened some years after WW2 actually.

[@Hamsafar_gasht]

@@shelv9538 peace treaties in WW1 were written in both French and english unlike previous treaties which was a blow to French language.

[@shelv9538]

@@Hamsafar_gashtThough it is true that the treaty of Versailles (which was the first international treaty written in English and not solely in French) marked the rise of English as a international language, French was still very much the world's main lingua franca during the interwar period, even after WW1 most bilateral treaties between nations that didn't share a common languages were generally written in French, really it wasn't until the end of WW2 that English superseded French mainly thanks to the US's rise as the world's prominent military economic and cultural power.

[@j.s.7335]

Ghana going for French? I think this may be wishful thinking on the part of the French. I get that there are a lot of French speaking countries around Ghana, but there's also English-speaking Nigeria, not that far away.

[@cynfulification]

Am from Kenya and I don't speak French. Its extremely difficult. German is actually easier.

[@jaydensile]

Opposite coming from a Kenyan

[@benvad9010]

They're Ghanaians! I was wonder why their accents were a little off?

[@khantsal2305]

Meanwhile Mali drop French language. Rwanda drop French language. France is using African countries for their wealth and using African countries to promote their language. Learning French is the biggest waste of time.

[@mbs0710]

It's a thing called colonialism

[@elsasvenski1566]

Same goes with English, Spanish and Portuguese...

[@momomassa7782]

If you want to make more money, then learn the English language! Because the English speaking market is way, way bigger!

[@oguzb.7033]

Ottoman Empire was also there, but never colonized or dictated a language, nor see itself as superior, eventhough it was not there for a short time as France, it was there for hundreds of years.

[@Rivan98]

But the arabs yes

[@justjules2029]

@Pepe “uncultured” You forgot the d Mr. Culture(d).

[@PRmoustache88]

If I belonged to a former empire of white slavers I'd be modest, too.

[@MegaBabyJ11]

Francophonie was started by leopold Senghor, Bourguiba, and Diori, presidents of Senegal Tunisia and Niger,. While these Presidents are africans, they grew up in colonial french departments. In Africa there are thousands of languages. Arabic, French, English, or Swahili work as languages to connect people in Africa. Which of those languages is best? IDK Should a european language be the common tongue of Africa? I would say no. But as people speak european languages across europe and the americas, perhaps it would be benificial to learn. Or maybe arabic, for the cultural aspects. mumbo poa vive les langues

[@verandi3882]

This is elitism and nonsense. Every man should speak his native language and consume media and education and literature in his native language, then we have the necessity to learn the global communication language, that is English, why learn a regional language and limit yourself to a small portion of the world when you can learn a language that connects the entire world, it is easy and simple to use? French has nothing to offer not even soft power anymore, end of the story.

[@Rabidanti]

I do like the French language but I think African countries would be better off if they switch to English

[@faridsmusic3312]

They're on it don't worry.

[@faridsmusic3312]

Specially Algeria. More and more Algerians are learning English.

[@faridsmusic3312]

After they became aware of its importance.

[@elsasvenski1566]

Why not keep your own language? Why abandon one foreign language for another?

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

@@elsasvenski1566 because of hate and the facts they're keen to universal refinement

[@bobfearnley5724]

This is colonialism. English grew out of it but French has no other reason in Africa than France

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

Québec is the proof, the english didn't grow out of it though

[@nbvon9916]

Okay some don't want french because it is a colonial language..are you not aware that british empire had colonized more countries? English is a colonizer language too....So should we not speak it? Or should we move on from the past and make language as an asset for communication? French is still an important language because it is spoken in 5 continents of the world. It is also the 2nd most learned language.. So better to use it as an asset for business for economic growth than always complaining and whining.

[@elsasvenski1566]

Finally someone meaningful in this world.

[@faithlesshound5621]

Hearing about Ghanaians learning French to improve their business chances in West Africa reminded me that the best schools throughout the British Empire taught their students French and Latin as well as English, often instead of the local vernaculars. So you will find people with a reading knowledge of French throughout the British Commonwealth, at least among the elites. Latin: not so much nowadays. That is true of Britain as well, where French was the "business language" for several centuries after the Norman conquest, but transformed itself into a "cultural language." No doubt the Alliance Francaise makes use of this opportunity. World English similarly comprises a "business language," which is mostly American (as imposed by Microsoft Word's spellcheck and the Far Eastern authors of technical manuals) and a "cultural language," which has split into two. The American commercial culture of cowboys, gangsters and Hollywood now overshadows the high culture exported by Great Britain.

[@pierrekiroule2827]

Nice insight👍 Merci pour les informations sur l'apprentissage du latin et du français, au sein de l'ancien Empire britannique.

[@Shel230]

French is Latin lol

[@Shel230]

Or by latin did you mean Spanish

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@Shel230 No, by Latin I meant the Lingua Romana, but without the Bocca Toscana. A concept foreign to Americans.

[@ollylevesque3404]

@@faithlesshound5621 stop crying, it’s not our fault you have bad food and teeth

[@lydiandege123]

swahili will shock you all as the language of the future with over 300 million speakers now

[@fintonmainz7845]

I'm learning French but French is not gaining in importance despite Africa. Quite the opposite.

[@deepwater9908]

I had to watch this for French class :(

[@deepwater9908]

If you can see this Madame... HI!

[@dariosacchet7764]

Lol, Instead I’m watching this because I’m interested.

[@mint8648]

@@dariosacchet7764 me too

[@anallllcore]

same LMAO

[@darryl693]

It’s 2021 and it’s not going well for them we are about to vote for our own African Union president lol

[@marctetreault3359]

When interviewee says not the case for English, translator says nothing.

[@kazhamo]

It's simply amazing to see the amount of importance that a former colonizer (that laments the loss of an empire) gives to clinging to a lost lingua franca in order to continue fulfilling a need for global influence, relevance and superiority of its metropolitan prestige accent/dialect. In order to feel powerful, some need to have "subjects" to lord over. Ditto for the English with the symbolic Commonwealth thing they have concocted.

[@jayashreepatil6250]

Hindi should be mentioned as th sixth largest language in the world

[@worldpeace3695]

It's funny how, Nigeria See's french as one of the most useless language in the world, especially the children age 5 to 17, if you ask them, speak French, they will tell you, we we. If you force them, they will fail your exams by Force, they prefer english because they are the best at it. I my self i hate french to the core. But what can i do, nothing. I thank God every single day, that British colonized us, if it was french i would hate my self, but i if it was not english i would prefer Spanish because nigerians lovess telemodo, unrelated, we hate zee world. That's India films

[@ephraimakoto3657]

Same in Ghana, people don't take it seriously. French is just a language we memorise but can never speak.

[@Ambrose-hb3bl]

A lot of haters of French here in this comment section, France a strong country. Vivre La France.

[@litman3980]

Hahahaha

[@romenhome5138]

french sucks.. especially to enlightened africans. rwanda kicked them out and now its one of the best nations in africa

[@didierlacroix6488]

60 % du vocabulaire anglais dérive directement du français. l'anglais n'est que du français mal prononcé. circulez, rien a voir

[@benelhajdahmenwael5063]

u r wrong ;)

[@manuelpanisse5991]

Ben el haj dahmen wael i dont see how hes wrong. Not just the vocabulary of modern english is heavily french to the point of it being ridiculous but even modern english orthography is french essentially.

[@didierlacroix6488]

It's a fact, write me a little text in english , whatever the subject and I'll prove it to you. cheers

[@oj1914]

cest un peu vrai....cest plus proche de 40-45%, jpense...

[@maximogonzalez4337]

This is misleading. 60% of English vocabulary is from Romance languages (30% Latin and 30% Old French). That was half a millennia ago, but if French people want to insist on this fact, let them not forget that 90%+ of French is basically Italian (Latin) if you go back to 50BC. The only difference is the weird Germanic pronunciation French has. le francais n'est que du itallien mal prononce. circulez, rien a voir

[@SamiBoudemagh]

talk about chienese neoimperialism it is more dangerous today to africa.

[@domicioannioulpiano6845]

The Chinese will own Africa in the future

[@ΔιρφωσσόςἈγράφιος]

Le français est la plus belle langue du monde. Heureux ceux qui le maîtrisent !!!

[@m.b.nagaraj7666]

In 2050 Hindi Speakers More than French.

[@marctetreault3359]

5:00 translator says : which is the case for English, but the interviewee said Arabic

[@tanilyam]

Why did she say Africa like dat?

[@maksteve5451]

Stop cultural colonialism: English should be enough for Africans.

[@user-hv1cq1lw1l]

Is that even grammatical, "more enough for Africans"???

[@nicolasrenaud6875]

Stop cultural colonialism, except by English. The irony

[@wertyuiopasd6281]

using english as a non-colonial language 😂 ironic to say the least. They've genocided all over the place, that's why they're still present in most parts of the world. The French didn't and that's why they're not there anymore.

[@maksteve5451]

@@user-hv1cq1lw1l I meant it be enough for Africans.

[@darkvega7394]

Hahaha french more common language in africa nice joke Maybe that only happen in the French dreams

[@aliez-zligui4485]

In africa there's a popular language its English after local languages..French out

[@inmeditatewetrust]

Will France ask Nigerians to learn French

[@romain6275]

They can learn if they want otherwise we don't care.

[@BMLKABD19]

And this propaganda video is doomed to fail

[@bilalbehar9775]

Im a moroccan n I speak 4 languages (spanish , english , dutch ) french not one of 'em

[@SAOnPoint]

Which African language do you speak?

[@SAOnPoint]

Which African language do you speak?

[@Fionn1014]

@@SAOnPoint Arabic I would imagine

[@eliezerkraiman48]

Because part of mrroco was colized by Spain

[@bilalbehar9775]

@@SAOnPoint moroccan . Its a complicated language

[@madewithrealdiamonds]

give the French speakers a reason to never learn English😂😂😂

[@PRmoustache88]

Have them pronounce 'happiness'.

[@verandi3882]

None. Only retards still think french is relevant

[@olelain]

Funny how people denounce the language of colonizers....in english :-)

[@lovaaaa2451]

le ''france-afrique'' c'est un conception très imperialiste, mais c'est certainement mieux que l'anglais... Alors espérer le swahili en afrique!

[@PRmoustache88]

Tiens, rien d'autre qui est mieux qu'étant un subject d'empire belge ou allemand en Afrique. Je pense que les portugaises laissent à garder vos mains. Aie-je raison?

[@realbaron1068]

Spanish language will be the world language in 2050.

[@user-hv1cq1lw1l]

@@a.s.h4485 Although I don't share Baron's optimism, I would nevertheless choose Spanish or Portuguese or Italian over English and French as the lingua franca, if I were given the vote. Btw I am Cantonese.

[@m.b.nagaraj7666]

​@@user-hv1cq1lw1l Hindi become powerful language in 2050 It will cross One Billion speakers

[@problem2781]

Yeah i wonder why

[@jonitan76]

Why there is no indian language? India has more population than whole english speaking nations or latinos?

[@vectoredthrust5214]

Djone Tan because India doesn't have a single language. There are dozens of Languages spoken by different groups throughout India. What unites them all is English

[@alienkishorekumar]

India speaks 100s of languages.

[@jonitan76]

China has 56 different language.. and they speak and learn mandarin in school... So why indian dont do the same. choose 1 dominant language there too unite all india.

[@GrosPointRouge]

Djone Tan “choose one dominant language to unite India”- That dominant language is English.

[@jonitan76]

English is not native indian language. Here in indonesia there are more than 100 native language .. and chose malay as based as indonesian language. Not english..

[@m07hcn62]

Of course more than a language ! It's an oppression tool, a facilitator of the ongoing French grip on its former colonies in Africa.

[@tideghost]

Sounds just like English!

[@elsasvenski1566]

Like English, Spanish and Portuguese...

[@macnosmutano4849]

It is shameful that French is being promoted in Africa. We should be promoting Swahili in sub-Saharan Africa not promoting foreign languages.

[@elsasvenski1566]

You are right. African shouldn't promoting French, English or a y foreign languages.

[@ulrichpalra7787]

Thats just the consequences of colonization. They feel inferior compared to the coloziners...