It seems completely stupid to make a statement like you hate the french or hate the americans without joking, such a massive generalization, so hic like, anyway, Weiser had a point when it comes to the french governments hypocrisy. They have taken many steps to keep the language exact, to keep French the dominant language…
You know, by what I've experienced, French (Talking about France French) culture is in a lot of ways better to what we have in North Am. Spending time with French friends has parts of me wishing I was brought up in French culture. The whole thing about how some people are so serious about bread with their dinner that…
I've once heard that French is the 18th most common language on the planet, right behind German. The way French is forced upon us it almost seems like the second most common. As a third language in school I'd have preferred Turkish over French, at least with that I'd meet people speaking it almost everywhere I go.
i've met a few french people. a couple were okay, the otehrs were not so. i generally find french people to be even more annoyingly arrogant, xenophobic and self-centred than the americans who often seem to have arrogant self-centred xenophobia wired into their very DNA. the country itself is nice tho... i hate the fact…
For the arguement that French people are rude - it's possibly based around Parisians being rude. I've known dozens of French poepl both inside and outside of education, I've worked with several and they are always great people. I've visited france several times and have had a great time. In Paris however, I have had a fair…
yeah, the french are why the NATO operated E-3 Sentry AWACS planes have NATO - OTAN written on the side, for organisation d'treatie altantique nord. FFS, can't you just call it NATO?! and it's also why the UN troops have united nations nationes unies on their patches. WHY? more people speak freaking ARABIC than french! i…