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Re:Why France is building a mega-university at Paris-Saclay ... by eyeJam on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:07PM (#9621188)
For a long time French people were mostly unconcerned with learning English. Maybe it's like that in other European countries too, I don't know, but I have lots of French friends so I know its true for them. The French have a lot of pride in their own language, although most of the ones I know wish they were <<bilingue>> (speak English).
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Re:Why France is building a mega-university at Paris-Saclay ... by 0x4a42 on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:17PM (#9621245)
"Maybe it's like that in other European countries too"

No, it's not. In most of the nothern or eastern european countries peoples are easily learning and speaking english and other languages. The frenchs are just the french exception. :)

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Re:Why France is building a mega-university at Paris-Saclay ... by yodsanklai on Thursday May 28, 2015 @09:45PM (#9622269)
what about the italian, spanish, portugese exceptions?
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