Thread: Popularity of languages

>Although most Europeans speak English, they learn German
>before that so this would be your most beneficial move.

That counts for some countries. In the Netherlands, children start learning English and German at same time. English because it is the main language in the world and German since it is the language of our neighbour country.

But I wonder if the French learn many other languages. I've been there several times, in the cities the French speak English quite well, they don't speak (or don't want to speak) German. But on the countryside, people only seem to speak French. Only the younger people know some English.

>but if you start speaking Aafrikaans is Germany they understand you

A prof of mine on university was from South Africa, Afrikaans sounds and looks a lot like Dutch. He regularly spoke Afrikaans and it was easy to understand, he also showed us an online newspaper.

www.beeld.com

Russian is sure harder to learn. Though it might be interesting to learn Russian, since this huge country is getting more and more important in science, technology and economics. Especially for Europeans it is getting important in economics.

Russia Rules in Mathematics & Space technologists.

You don't want to accept that because they're communists.

First of all Unregsistered, my parents have spent 27 years trying to get their kids out of socialist countries, so don't get me started on communism, and I never said they weren't leaders in Mathemtics, I just said I wasn't going to take priority to learn a new alphabet so some communist can understand what I'm saying for free.

And I do believe Russia STILL hasn't landed on the moon.

Russia didn't have money to land.

Nasa accepts that Russian Space Research is better than
theirs.

Russia has the best Space Station program (america
took its help to send some of its pals into it)

And landing on the moon is just one thing of the
whole space research program..

"For the rich and prosperous, it is unacceptable
and quiet impossible to conceive and comprehend,
that there can be other cultures, civilizations,
people, works, nations, doctrines, religions that
are far greater than theirs!"

Oh, by the way... I am not communist..
I am against communists.. but I do appreciate quality.

Just trying to tell you that some people are too
blind to accept the truth.

Alright - here's the deal - I already told you I have no patience for communism, so if you're not going to answer my question, you can take all the rest of your replies, and put them where the Sun doesn't shine, and I don't mean Siberia.

If you ..........ing don't have patience for communism, it doesn't
mean you should be too blind to accept that the russians
are good in Space Research.

You're too idiotic to learn to appreciate. So .......... your replies too!

>Russia Rules in Mathematics & Space technologists. You don't
>want to accept that because they're communists.

Huh? As far as I know, I haven't said anything about not accepting the role of Russia in science.

>Russia, AFAIK is not a communist country anymore.

Officially it isn't. But you can't change a nation from one day on the other, it will take several generations before a nation is switched off from those ideas. People in the communistic countries have lived for many decades with a communistic system, for them that is the normal situation.

Exactly - I don't believe anyone even mentioned anything to do with politics before you came online. Are you just having a bad day because it's that time of the month?

Originally posted by Unregistered
If you ..........ing don't have patience for communism, it doesn't
mean you should be too blind to accept that the russians
are good in Space Research.

You're too idiotic to learn to appreciate. So .......... your replies too!

I'm a Canadian and I appreciate the Russian space program. I think that it was very competitve with the American program and in some areas it was leading edge. The Russian astronauts were able to spend longer amounts of time in orbit. They could survive longer.

As far as Communism goes, if you follow history, it was perpetuated by the Cold War as well as civil revolutions, but that is another story.