Which future EU language will be best?

takapiru · Post by **takapiru** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:32 pm

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Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:56 pm

I think English is the best language, because nearly everybody speaks
English, and learning people a complete new language (like esperanto) is a
lot of work.

takapiru · Post by **takapiru** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:06 pm

Elmo wrote:...nearly everybody speaks
English

Nearly? In 2000 a research of the EU commission tells that 41% of the EU15 citisens speaks English (19% French, 10% German, 7% Spanish, 3% Italian).

Today I think the % of EU25 counties is lower.

It means about 250 million individuals who do not speak English.

So, how about my "Personal EU" idea?

Fundamental · Post by **Fundamental** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:54 pm

Nice work Takapiru. I wish all the good for your program

I hope you enter also some notes to ebt

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:00 pm

Everybody (except the French) know Engelish. So everybody (except the French) can talk and communicate with all (except the French) the other EU-members.

ok ok, some French people can speak English (yannn

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DrGreenTom · Post by **DrGreenTom** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:25 pm

i like my own language.

Besides, many people THINK they're good in english, untill a local starts correcting their texts ...

Yannn · Post by **Yannn** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:29 pm

Fons wrote:Everybody (except the French) know Engelish. So everybody (except the French) can talk and communicate with all (except the French) the other EU-members.

ok ok, some French people can speak English (yannn )

Fons, go and....

I'd vote for Latin. I don't think EU should adopt the language of its enemies (the UK, which is in the EU just to try to slow it down and try to make it fail, and the USA, our rival.)

Fjon · Post by **Fjon** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:02 am

Yannn wrote:
Fons wrote:Everybody (except the French) know Engelish. So everybody (except the French) can talk and communicate with all (except the French) the other EU-members.

ok ok, some French people can speak English (yannn )
Fons, go and....

I'd vote for Latin. I don't think EU should adopt the language of its enemies (the UK, which is in the EU just to try to slow it down and try to make it fail, and the USA, our rival.)

Hey, you're forgetting that English is Ireland's main language too. And I wouldn't say that the UK and US are our "enemies".

androl · Post by **androl** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:54 am

takapiru wrote:In 2000 a research of the EU commission tells that 41% of the EU15 citisens speaks English (19% French, 10% German, 7% Spanish, 3% Italian).

There are nearly 100 million people whose mother language is German, these are already over 30% of the 300 million EU15 inhabitants

do you know the link to this research, I know this but I don't remember where i have the link

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:56 am

Could it be that those speaking the language as native tongue are not in the numbers?

golfinha · Post by **golfinha** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:23 pm

Portuguese is one of the most (if not the most) spoken language in the world

tiura · Post by **tiura** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:41 pm

golfinha wrote:Portuguese is one of the most (if not the most) spoken language in the world

6th, 200 million people speak it.

The most spoken language in the world is bad english.

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:00 pm

Don't forget Chinese, with >1,3 billion people!

Fjon · Post by **Fjon** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:17 pm

Ok, so what are the first 5 languages? Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian and.....

aron · Post by **aron** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:50 pm

fjon wrote:Ok, so what are the first 5 languages? Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian and.....

...Dutch?

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