tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106562441141151395.post4008525741599989455..comments2024-03-08T10:57:00.378+02:00Comments on J-L K Blog: Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106562441141151395.post-78772741713095443592008-09-12T23:49:00.000+02:002008-09-12T23:49:00.000+02:00Likewise for Africa...You have some countries in A...Likewise for Africa...<BR/><BR/>You have some countries in Africa with so much dialects that the only way to communicate is the use of the language that the colon left.<BR/><BR/>When you look at the African Union, they are using four languages, if I am not mistaken: French, English, Arabic and Portuguese.<BR/><BR/>I remember the difficulties I had while learning German.<BR/><BR/>My solution was to buy comic strip and my target was to learn 30 new words per day.<BR/><BR/>My continent Africa has not reach its full potential.<BR/><BR/>There is more Africans who know their way overseas than intra Africa.<BR/><BR/>There are no reasons that Air Africa, the continental flag went bankrupt when other carriers are out of the red zone.<BR/><BR/>The most populated country in Africa is Nigeria which is an English speaking country.<BR/><BR/>But not far from Nigeria, you have another big country, Ivory Coast which is French speaking<BR/><BR/>People from Ivory Coast communicate with those of Sierra Leone by a language called pidgin.<BR/><BR/>I was with two ladies in a car from Johannesburg to Durban.<BR/><BR/>Those two ladies were using pidgin to talk to each other..<BR/><BR/>Communication has never been a problem in Africa..<BR/><BR/>Kongolese music is liked everywhere in Africa but the people who are able to understand the lyrics are few..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106562441141151395.post-88679551688082912522008-09-12T23:19:00.000+02:002008-09-12T23:19:00.000+02:00Sorry, but European Community will not adapt to on...Sorry, but European Community will not adapt to one language, because it would destroy European unity. We are a mosaic of many cultures and it is understandable that this fact finds its expression in a variety of language. It may be quite useful to make decisions in one or two languages, but official communications will not be heard if they are not expressed in a familiar tongue understood by a cultural community. <BR/>Languages widely used in the EU are in fact English, French and German which is still gaining ground, for it is the most spoken language in Europe after Russian. 92 MillionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106562441141151395.post-39318436007841221342008-09-12T21:06:00.000+02:002008-09-12T21:06:00.000+02:00Wie geht es Ihnen?I used to speak and write fluent...Wie geht es Ihnen?<BR/><BR/>I used to speak and write fluently in German but runned out of practice.<BR/><BR/>I just wonder why Africa as a whole sould have packaged solutions?<BR/><BR/>I would like to see anybody bold enough to say that the Europeen Community must stick to one language..<BR/><BR/>As an African, I cherish my heritage and I am ashamed that my knowledge of my mother tongue is so little.<BR/><BR/>One of the African language that can compete on the continental scale, would be, according to me, swahili.<BR/><BR/>But in Africa, we don't think that English or French should compete.<BR/><BR/>The knowledge of one or those languages is definitely a plus.<BR/><BR/>But more of thinking of the neocolonial trend, we are still claiming our past and our roots.<BR/><BR/>Ich hoffe dass Ich nach Koeln irgendwo wieder kannAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3106562441141151395.post-51150960982938429842008-09-12T08:03:00.000+02:002008-09-12T08:03:00.000+02:00We should not forget that the international vocabu...We should not forget that the international vocabulary of English largely comes from French. English wouldn't have that large impact if it were only limited to its Germanic part of its diverse and rich inventory of words. And the inventive capacity of English would'nt also be so strong if French wouldn't exist. English is indeed partly also a Romanic language.<BR/>I mostly agree to your ideas, although I think that Africa cannot admit a world in which English would be the only master. I am German and not an African. But as an African I would support La Francophonie in so far as it really promotes a polyglot world, where understanding means more pure information or infotainment. French should be promoted but not only in its European colours. African, Carribean and North-American traditions should also enter this wonderful language moulding it to an idiom of everybody who likes to speak it.<BR/>But I also would dislike a neocolonialist trend that certainly is not totally eradicated in this movement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com