#78 Multilingual Children
February 28, 2008 by clander
All white people want their children to speak another language. There are no exceptions. They dream about the children drifting in between French and English sentences as they bustle about the kitchen while they read the New York Times and listen to Jazz.
As white people age, they start to feel more and more angry with their parents for raising them in a monolingual home. At some point in their lives, most white people attempt to learn a second language and are generally unable to get past ordering in a restaurant or over-pronouncing a few key words. This failure is not attributed to their lack of effort, but rather their parents who didn’t teach them a new language during their formative years.
White people believe that if they had been given French language instruction when they were younger, their lives would have turned out very differently. Instead of living in the US, they would be living and working abroad for the United Nations or some other organization with a headquarters in Switzerland or The Hague.
Generally, white people prefer their children to speak French. Advanced white people will actually spend outrageous amounts of money to send their children to a Lycee or Ecole Francaise. But the vast majority will abandon their dreams when they realize that need a second mortgage so their child can have a better study abroad experience in France.
Languages such as German, Spanish, Swedish, or Italian are also acceptable, but are considered to be poor substitutes (especially Spanish). At the time of writing, it is still considered expert-level white person behavior to have white children speaking Asian and African languages.
There is only one way to use this information to your advantage: speaking another language means that white people are more likely to want to have children with you. It is seen as a cheaper alternative to language schools.
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“Why French? It’s not like knowledge of French will translate in appreciation of French songs (which suck). Maybe it’s the Canadian in me but I just don’t care for the language. I’d much rather learn German (sexy) or Russian (sexy) or Latin (ultimate douche appeal).”
Once upon a time like in the 2nd millennium, any wealthy elite person in an English-speaking country knew the king of England and much of Christendom was dominated by the Franks, a South Germanic tribe Latinized after they conquered Gaul from the Romans…and mixed with the Celto-Roman population in the 500s and 800s AD. They were part of the massive invasions of Roman Europe by the Germanic tribes like Goths, Teutons and Vikings.
Then, another Germanic tribe, the Normans from Norway or Denmark of Viking descent, settled in Normandy and expanded their reign into then-Anglo Saxon England (pre-modern English speakers related to the Dutch)in the year 1066 when they landed in the beach of Hastings and taken over the British isles. These Norsemen adapted the “Vulgate Latin” or the “Langue d’ Oil”, that is, the Northern French language centered in the city of Paris.
French was the language of the elite, religion, banking, academia education, entertainment in plays, literature writing such as music and poetry, and was second place to the Latin of Old Rome died off when the Western Roman Empire collapsed. French was the “Lingua Franca” of first Europe, then the world from the 16th to 19th centuries and by the beginning of the 1940′s, its dominance was confronted by English spoken by Britain and the USA. +
I have a father who’s from France (the Nord/PDC region) and he taught me some French, except I forgot to use it when not traveling aboard to see family members with a better proficiency in English than me speaking French… and I pronounced it in the typical American way (LoL).
It’s also a rule of thumb to use the country’s native language when you’re abroad, like it’s a “need” for many multilingual white American children and teens must move onto France in the future, associate with Parisian elites or immerse themselves in a French-speaking culture.
Historically, the Nord/Pas de Calais region used to have a large Flemish-speaking population until 2 centuries ago, by the introduction of public education and campaigns to eradicate native tongues of inhabitants not speaking Parisian French, they were closer to Flanders, Belgium.
I have two of 3 cousins on my Dad’s side studied English, with some Danish, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. In many European countries, one traveler can find tourist services provided in English, adjacent national and local languages: Luxembourg is an example of this custom. +
No, as she points out, she’s Canadian. There’s a vast difference between real French (e.g. from France) and French Canadian (Quebecois) – both in terms of cultural richness and the language. Just as French culture has depth and is beautiful, Quebecois productions are clumsy and trite.
french songs suck !?! they’re beautifull and so much more meaningfull than commercial american songs. are you black or something?
Why French? It’s not like knowledge of French will translate in appreciation of French songs (which suck). Maybe it’s the Canadian in me but I just don’t care for the language. I’d much rather learn German (sexy) or Russian (sexy) or Latin (ultimate douche appeal).
Ok, the liberals wanted all the public schools integrated and have a quota of diverse races or ethnic groups, therefore it is the best to have your child exposed to or immersed in foreign languages in public schools, if they are integrated and not like all black, white, Latino or Asian. In fact, public schools are becoming more ethnic enclaves again in the last 40 years, because when a busing order happens, whites will take their kids out and by 10-20 years, it becomes an all-black or minority school. Many public schools in Cal. are now all-Latino and most of them are immigrants, so when they enter, speaks Spanish instead of proficiency in English.
It is seen as a cheaper alternative to language schools…. haha, so true.. i’m asian and i speak 4 languages fluently and learning french at the moment and i hate my parents not getting me rench lesson when i was younger.. and i want my future kid to speak more languages than i do!
thats something only a white girl would point out. where did you pick up this tidbit…on your semester abroad, cracker?
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