John Day wrote:
How often do you see two non-English speakers conversing
in English because it is the only common denominator?
All the time, and that is especially true in France; the only way to do
business across Europe is English; no one speaks all of French, Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian,
Polish, Romanian, Greek and yes English. The de-facto situation is that
almost everyone who steps outside their little part of the world speaks
their native language and English.
But too many French are entrenched in an anti-American culture that
refuses to learn English.
It looks like we are stuck with it.
We are, and there is no point whining about it without actually doing
something about it.
Jorge Amodio wrote:
[..] but there is a good reason why and that when I talk with people
from developing countries like mine (Argentina) they don't are able
yet to understand that blaming the "north" is not the solution
And in this case it's even more misguided because France is not a
developing country.
Michel.