LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.09 (03) [EN]

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 From: Paul Finlow-Bates wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk
 Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.08 (05) [EN]

From: Isaac M. Davis
isaacmacdonalddavis at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2011.07.08 (03) [EN-FR-NL]

It's fascinating how similar that is to attitudes in Canada as well, in this
case mainly the attitudes of Anglophones who have to learn French. The
attitudes of Francophones towards learning English are a bit different, but
I don't know whether they'd map closely onto Fenno-Swedes, since the closest
Francophone populations in any given direction are nowhere near as close to
French Canada as other Swedish-speaking populations are to Finland, and I
would expect that to have an impact on attitudes.

Isaac M. Davis


I gather Finnish Swedes have a very distinctive accent and are often treated
as rather different by people in Sweden too. Seems they can't win!

Most Anglophone Canadians I've spoken to on the matter seem to have learned
enough French to pass the exams, then more or less immediately forgotten it.

I've only heard Quebecois French once, in a conversation with a Frenchman
and a Belgian. I couldn't understand a word, it hardly sounded like French
to me, though neither European seemed to have any problems.

Paul
Derby
England

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