The long adieu: how Britain gave up learning French

The vast majority of immigrants do learn English, and while immigration discontent can be fuelled by the language issue, as in Catalonia, where migrants tend to learn Castilian, our tongue is hardly under threat. English is so all-powerful in fact, that it has even replaced Arabic as the lingua franca of jihad, and recordings of foreign fighters in Syria show Chechens, Turks, Arabs and Brits commu

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理由：言語的衰退は、進歩的な英国人の新世代はコスモポリタニズムと文化の多様性を受け入れると同時に起きている逆説的な出来事。（アルフレッド大王は40代でラテン語を学んだって）こういうのを見習わないのね。