Languages of the Internet, 2017

>learning french
Do you wish you were born bilingual instead? Seems like French speakers are better off in France.

>Seems like French speakers are better off in France.
*in Canada
God, that sounds retarded.

>Do you wish you were born bilingual instead?
who wouldn't want to be born bilingual. Being a monolingual sucks, feel like such an American.

>Seems like French speakers are better off in France.
Canada does have an entirely French province..So their is a lot of benefits for jobs/travel here in knowing french. I quite like Quebec and want to visit more/converse with the locals.

I read that all government agencies have to be bilingual so the people that run them have to be too. So Quebeckers have an inherent advantage in getting cushy government jobs.

Not him but that is a bullshit myth. Even if it were true, and it isn't, there is no reason it would give Québec an advantage since anyone can learn a second language. If the Québécois, who live in an officially French province, can learn English why can't Anglos in other provinces learn French?

it definitely helps landing jobs being bilingual but all government employees definitely aren't bilingual, especially as you go east from Quebec.

>why can't Anglos in other provinces learn French?
Lol, no anglo learns french to fluency because we have 0 incentive to learn it. It's a joke what they teach at school. If you don't have the drive to learn a language, you won't learn it.

Quebeckers learn english because they are surrounded by anglos and like 90% of tv shows, music, movies, etc. are produced in english. They have more incentive to learn our language.

>all government agencies
but that's only for the federal goverment, Canada is a federation so it doesn't matters that much to be bilingual because the provinces have a lot of autonomy.
And also, why would Quebec have any advantage? The official language in Quebec is French, the only officially bilingual province is New Brunswick.

I think he means Quebec has an advantage because they have more bilingual speakers.

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>English
1.5 billion
>Chinese
1.2 billion
>Spanish
555 million
>French
292 million
>German
197.5 million

This list is exactly what you would expect it to be

There's more Portuguese speakers than Japanese speakers.
Also, Japan is doing things offline.

>This list is exactly what you would expect it to be
yes, more or less, but where did you get the figure for German?

That's exactly what I'm saying. Anglos have no motivation to learn. I don't think that's an advantage for Québécois, Acadiens, or other Francophones.

It's not even all the federal government. It's only federal government jobs directly related to French issues or government service jobs with a high percentage of both English and French users. In many cases you can get hired so long as you agree to learn French/English in a set period of time (I think it's 1 year), classes and resources are provided.

I googled "how many german speakers in tje world" and got the answer 175million - 225 million, so I added them and divided by 2 to get the average between them.

Doctissimo, comment ça marche and caradisiac

well that sounds like too many, even if including "learners", most recent estimations put the number closer to 120-140 total speakers, sometimes more sometimes less

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That sounds right, I think the other figure was partial speakers added.

>There's more Portuguese speakers than Japanese speakers.
Portuguese: around 240 million total speakers
Japanese: around 130 million total

do you love Japan?

>Malay
I'd get triggered if what this Malay means is Indonesian.

yes, "Malay(s)" and Indonesian

Probably social media and sites like Youtube.