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Which future EU language will be best?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:32 pm
by takapiru
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:56 pm
by Elmo
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:06 pm
by takapiru
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?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:54 pm
by Fundamental
Nice work Takapiru. I wish all the good for your program
I hope you enter also some notes to ebt
English
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:00 pm
by Fons
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 )
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:25 pm
by DrGreenTom
i like my own language.
Besides, many people THINK they're good in english, untill a local starts correcting their texts ...
Re: English
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:29 pm
by Yannn
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.)
Re: English
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:02 am
by Fjon
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".
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:54 am
by androl
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
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:56 am
by Dakkus
Could it be that those speaking the language as native tongue are not in the numbers?
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:23 pm
by golfinha
Portuguese is one of the most (if not the most) spoken language in the world
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:41 pm
by tiura
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:00 pm
by Elmo
Don't forget Chinese, with >1,3 billion people!
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:17 pm
by Fjon
Ok, so what are the first 5 languages? Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian and.....
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:50 pm
by aron
fjon wrote:Ok, so what are the first 5 languages? Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian and.....
...Dutch?
