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Never heard of it and no fear at all. English is a nice international language for us to turn to, and we learn it in school from an early age, but it is what it is - something to use abroad. English is a supplement, not a possible replacement for what we already have. I fear more the future of nynorsk (New-Norwegian), our other written form of Norwegian besides the standard bokmål.
Yea. I don't think in Europe they will ever speak English natively. They don't need to.
Now that English is the unofficial common language among Europeans who speak different languages (say if a Spaniard and a Pole want to speak, they usually go to English), I'm wondering how many Europeans feel about it? Particularly say the French and the Germans? French in particular was the unofficial language of diplomacy in Europe (when did English overtake it) and if history had gone differently French might have been the unofficial global lingua franca. The British Empire and the US combined seem to have successful entrenched English as the language of trade, politics, science, media for a long time now.
Is there some jealousy/resentment? Or do most not really care too much? I heard in some countries young people are even speaking English among themselves, is there a lot of fear that some might even start speaking English instead of say Dutch or German or Swedish? Do some young people sort of admire English or see it as superior/cool? I heard in Norway there was anger at advertisements in English.
It seems Southern Europeans are less open to English though, especially in Italy and Spain.
I think from communicating with people around the world people have a lot of resentment towards American English. or Americanized words.. you wouldn't believe how many crybabies (mostly British) you'd attract just by saying the word "Soccer" or use Imperial measuring units.
I think from communicating with people around the world people have a lot of resentment towards American English. or Americanized words.. you wouldn't believe how many crybabies (mostly British) you'd attract just by saying the word "Soccer" or use Imperial measuring units.
In the Netherlands allmost everyone speaks english pretty good and we like to speak it. Actually we like it so much, that people from other countries are having more trouble to learn our language 'cos they don't get the chance to speak it, cos everybody speaks english to them. But there's absolutely no chance english will take over.
I think from communicating with people around the world people have a lot of resentment towards American English. or Americanized words.. you wouldn't believe how many crybabies (mostly British) you'd attract just by saying the word "Soccer" or use Imperial measuring units.
Well we use 'soccer' in Australia too (since we have our own football too) and the Brits still use a lot of imperial measurements like miles, yards, pounds, stone (Seriously wtf is a 'stone' haha)...in Australia we're totally metric now.
Well we use 'soccer' in Australia too (since we have our own football too) and the Brits still use a lot of imperial measurements like miles, yards, pounds, stone (Seriously wtf is a 'stone' haha)...in Australia we're totally metric now.
Plus some of the word are spelt different, its so strange seeing the English English spelling of words. they like their U's and E's
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