Learning French in school is functionally the same as learning Latin (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ButtBidet@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Like everybody in France under 45 is fluent in English, and who the fuck wants to talk to an older European. Every single French colony without exception is phasing out or has phased out the use of French as France was such an awful colonial power. Did you know that Eclair is pronounced aey-clare? This does nothing for me. I guess some people want to read Les Miserables in the original Foot Mold Language, just like random people enjoy reading Ovid or Cicero in Catholic script.. And just like Latin, fuck that everything has genders and complicated conjugation.

I swear, the French teachers in school were trying to impart the vibe that if we know the French language, French women would have sex with us.

I refuse to defend any facts that I asserted in this essay.

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[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Well yeah, but that's not really a bad thing. I think learning a language is good, regardless of whether you actually have a use for it.

[-] kot@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Learning things is good. It's also good that schools still teach things like that, it's great that kids have the opportunity to learn a second language, especially if they're anglophones, since those tend to live in a bubble. Even learning Latin is good, it makes you think about grammar and language itself in ways you wouldn't otherwise. The way capitalist education is headed they might not teach these things for very long, since they're "useless".