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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by elforce002 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @08:34PM (#38678306)
That's a bummer for me. I spent +2 years learning French and now you're telling me this is useless. I'd assume I can talk with older folks and try to practice at restaurants, museums, etc. Prob I won't be able to communicate with GenZ but probably that's not the case for millennials.
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by kergonath on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:24AM (#38679785)
It’s not useless. It’s just that there is some vocabulary that you won’t learn without some immersion in the culture. Same with any language, to be honest.
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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by throw_m239339 on Monday December 18, 2023 @02:19AM (#38680014)
It isn't useless. The parent is 100% hyperbolic, at best. The fact is just that some people living in France can't speak french properly for various reasons, but it's not a generality. The french you've learn is the official one, and if you go into a restaurant, speak "academic french" and the waiter doesn't understand you, then that person isn't a french native.

The parent is basically saying "English is useless in USA, because people in some places speak broken English". Of course it's completely absurd in both cases.

The french you've learn, everybody who went to school in France learns that exact same language.

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