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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6061 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 17 of 19 29 March 2014 at 5:48am | IP Logged |
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French will always be a lingua franca (even if no one else speaks it) because that's what the expression literally means.
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| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5380 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 18 of 19 30 March 2014 at 4:46am | IP Logged |
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I thought the original lingua franca was a Mediterranean pidgin based more on Italian, rather than French.
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| Thor1987 Groupie Canada Joined 4734 days ago 65 posts - 84 votes Studies: German | Message 19 of 19 30 March 2014 at 12:42pm | IP Logged |
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The interesting question is how will the romance based languages work together. It's
not the native speakers of any language that are gonna make it a lingua franca. It's the L2 that truly give a language its influence. Brazilians, Italians, are also part of the mix. And when you have well over a billion people speaking languages that are closely related it's hard to dismiss them as obvious learners of English. If I had to guess in 30 years it's gonna be far more logical for a Brazilian, to learn both Spanish and French than it is to learn English by itself. Edited by Thor1987 on 30 March 2014 at 12:44pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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