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eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4084 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian
| Message 9 of 12 21 August 2014 at 7:09pm | IP Logged |
It's truly unfortunate that Gallo is so poorly viewed, even in Brittany. Some a bit extremist circles even seem to think promoting Gallo is an affront to the Breton language somehow.
Loudéac is a lovely area! We actually looked at a few houses nearby before we ended up in le parc naturel régional d'Armorique (though literally on the border to Côtes-d'Armor - the river that runs along our land marks the border).
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4692 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 10 of 12 21 August 2014 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
Eh bien, il nous manque des brittophones ici :)
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| Milla Newbie France Joined 3743 days ago 8 posts - 17 votes Speaks: French* Studies: English
| Message 11 of 12 22 August 2014 at 4:23pm | IP Logged |
eyðimörk wrote:
Some a bit extremist circles even seem to think promoting Gallo is an affront to the Breton language somehow. |
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It's true, and I think it's ridiculous.
"One country, one language" : that is why, for some people, speak Breton was an affront to the French language. A famous sentence (historical or not, I don't know) says : "Il est interdit de parler breton et de cracher par terre" (in schools).
But "one region, one language", it would be good ?
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| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4084 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian
| Message 12 of 12 22 August 2014 at 10:04pm | IP Logged |
Milla wrote:
A famous sentence (historical or not, I don't know) says : "Il est interdit de parler breton et de cracher par terre" (in schools). |
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Historical or not, it was surely a prevalent attitude at one time. At least judging from memoirs (e.g. Le Cheval d'orgeuil) and old interviews.
For English, have you considered looking into the expat community for language practice? I don't know about the Loudéac area in particular, but les Monts d'Arrée are literally crawling with Brits and my neighbouring town even has a "French-English friendship club" just to socialise in English. If you prefer spending time with people your own age, though, you might be out of luck. Most Brits I have run into since moving here have been twice my age (I just turned 30 a couple of days ago).
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