why is francophony important?
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See Wikipedia link below
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The most important thing is to practice. It is good to move across the stage, use gestures, etc. Change your speaking pace, tone, etc. It is a technique of public speaking, it makes it easier for people to pay attention to what you are saying.
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ah oui vraiment et ca c clair...Il est tres important pour l equipe..
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Hmmm I can speak of french as I'm french. It's said to be a quite hard language and it really is, lots of exceptions in grammar, many problems of tenses. Well it's also known as a beautiful language and maybe it comes from the fact it's difficult.\nSpanish is close to french I think complexity is quite the same or slightly easier (I've learned it for 3 years). It's a nice language that sounds good, like there's sun in their language :)\nChinese is much more simple regarding tenses and grammar (my girlfriend is chinese) but one very hard thing is they have sounds we don't, they make difference between two sounds just from the tone where we don't really hear any difference, I think it's a question of habit. Of course the writing is also harder, there's a way to write with normal letters too...\n\nRegarding usefulness I think chinese is a language that will be interesting in the few next years as China is opening more, french can be interesting too and I think french can provide a better population coverage than spanish if you choose between those two...\n\nSo good luck in your learning and I hope I provided interesting inofmrations to guide you in your choice :)
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Learning a new languange helps you understand other people. You do not only learn to understand the meanings of their words, but also differences in culture,believes and values. To learn a another language means to also study the people that speak it. It can help you to better understand what's going on in other countries and why views differ from place to place. By the way, it is also fun. -
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i had french, it is an interesting language..\ndepends on u , whether u want to experiment something new or not
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Language and music are universal among human cultures. Both involve organized acoustic\nsequences and engage complex cognitive and motor processes. The relationship\nbetween language and music has long interested scholars across a broad range of disciplines,\nfrom linguistics to neuroscience.,scientists have proved a grate dynamic between language and music,by the way musicologists and linguists have often suggested that the prosody of a culture’s spoken language\ncan influence the structure of its instrumental music. However, empirical data supporting this idea\nhave been lacking. This has been partly due to the difficulty of developing and applying comparable\nquantitative measures to melody and rhythm in speech and music. This study uses a recently developed\nmeasure for the study of speech rhythm to compare rhythmic patterns in English and\nFrench language and classical music. We find that English and French musical themes are significantly\ndifferent in this measure of rhythm, which also differentiates the rhythm of spoken English\nand French.,so it is absolute interaction between music and learning language.
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I am studying French through night courses at a local college because Canada is billingual (English and French), because I live in an area with a large Francophone popluation and because I love speaking French!\n\nI am also studying Funeral Services Education through correspondence because I have wanted to be a funeral director since I was like 12 and I am going to try really hard to make this dream happen!
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If it isn't in your country then it isn't important.\nBut I hear that most business is done in english.\nAlso if you are in America and you can't speak proper english ppl will assume that you are less inteligent than most and take advantage of you or not give you the recognition you deserve for your hard work. Also, when you don't speak it correctly you can sound rude, or accidently offend someone. \nBy the way the proper way to say that sentence is: Can you please answer a question for me about speaking english?
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Oration is skilled and beautiful speech. A  piece of declamation is loud and rousing, before a battle for example.
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I assume you mean communication with the rest of the world? If so, communication is absolutely essential for developing an economy on the global market. These countries have to try to turn a trade deficit into a positive by attempting to export more than they import. Communication is the primary medium that allows this to happen. Internet, telecommunications, etc... Also, tight controls on inflation through currency availability is important. Finally, opening up trade for foreign direct investment will bring in revenue. In every case I have mentioned, communication is the backbone. Communication could not possibly be more important than that!
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Euphemisms are useful in that they keep languange interesting. We listen - and learn - more when we hear something interesting. Yes, eupehmisms can be over used (especially by lawyers and lawmakers), but in general they have a role in our speech.
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Yes I would say so.  Apart from cultural things that may be tied to a language, each language also has a unique sound or melody which I think affects you in some way just the way that music can. It affects how things are expressed, as well as perceived. This is why I would be concerned about the spread of English; it could definitely hurt the diversity of the world.  And the mainstream English is not nearly as melodious as half the other languages out there in my opinion.
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Language is one of the best ways an individual can become a more integrated part of society. It is often a difficult and life-long learning process (to learn additional languages) but with tremendous benefits. Whenever I hear another language being spoken, I try to find the similarities that underlies all modern language. It inspires me to learn more about that particular language and also about the culture of the people that speak it. I suggest everyone should try to learn a few common phrases in any language, so that they may have the oppurtunity to communicate with someone you might not have otherwise ever thpught to do.
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Not really. It is of no importance to them.\n\nDo you learn all the provinces of France in your school? Why? Why not?
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It is a question of geography as much as anything else.  In general, the location of a particular population in relation to its foreign language speaking neighbors and the size of that population has moer to do with the tendency for a population than all other factors.\n\nFor example, one only has to look to the Benelux (Belgium Netherland and Luxembourg) as an example.  It is generally accepted in the Netherlands that an educated person will speak at least two and probably three languages: Dutch (nederlands), English and a third, usually French or German.\n\nWhen one looks at the population of the Netherlands (14 million?) and its location it is not surprising due to their dependence on foreign commerce to maintain their high standard of living.  \n\nHowever, large populations in Europe like Germany, Poland and France don't have the same high degree of foreign language emphasis although I would say that the educated French or German adult will speak at least one foreign language.\n\nOther small trading (and not always) populations in other parts of the world, (like Africa) speak several languages.\n\nIt is natural (or at least historical) that economically dominate countries that are also georgraphically rather removed will have a lower percentage of foreign language speakers (the US and Japan for example and Great Britain to a certain degree from the time of the Pax Britannica).  The bottom line is that large populations are often self sustaining to a large degree and many of their citizens do not travel on business and it is therefore perceived not to be necessary to devote educational reources and time to this pursuit.  This is changing however, with the President's (USA) new emphasis on foreign language education and its importance as a national security issue.\n\nHope this was helpful, though short and incomplete.
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Very easy to learn.  They have "language in 10 minutes a day" books in the book stores...that can help you learn French.  The computer courses are great too.\nFrench doesn't have too many hard to make sounds and we have the same alphabet so you'll do just fine.\nGood luck!!!