He's not wrong. When a woman speaks French I want to fuck her so bad. Oh yeah baby I don't know what you're saying but it sounds so fucking sophisticated.

I started studying French 3.5 years ago and now I mainly read French literature
It's by far the best language to study as a native English speaker

>>24764170
>it's by far the best language to study as an English speaker
Based on what? Just being the easiest to learn? How many languages do you speak?

>>24764164
someone feels that way about every language.
>>24764168
>I swear
>I have wander'd about in the world everywhere;
>From many strange mouths have heard many strange tongues;
>Strain'd with many strange idioms my lips and my lungs;
>Walk'd in many a far land, regretting my own;
>In many a language groaned many a groan;
>And have often had reason to curse those wild fellows
>Who built the high house at which Heaven turn'd jealous,
>Making human audacity stumble and stammer
>When seized by the throat in the hard gripe of Grammar.
>But the language of languages dearest to me
>Is that in which once, O ma toute cherie,
>When, together, we bent o'er your nosegay for hours,
>You explain'd what was silently said by the flowers,
>And, selecting the sweetest of all, sent a flame
>Through my heart, as, in laughing, you murmur'd
>Je t'aime.

>The Italians have voices like peacocks; the Spanish
>Smell, I fancy, of garlic; the Swedish and Danish
>Have something too Runic, too rough and unshod, in
>Their accents for mouths not descended from Odin;
>German gives me a cold in the head, sets me wheezing
>And coughing; and Russian is nothing but sneezing;
>But, by Belus and Babel! I never have heard,
>And I never shall hear (I well know it), one word
>Of that delicate idiom of Paris without
>Feeling morally sure, beyond question or doubt,
>By the wild way in which my heart inwardly flutter'd
>That my heart's native tongue to my heart had been utter'd
>And whene'er I hear French spoken as I approve
>I feel myself quietly falling in love.
from "Lucile'' by Owen Meredith.

>>24764183
I only speak 1 language because as a min wage wagie I'm too poor to afford conversation practice tutors nor can I afford to travel therefore I don't see the value in spending the hundreds of hours required to become a fluent speaker
My assessment is based on the French literary canon which learning French unlocks for you, the ease of acquisition and its deep connection to the English language
I study 3 languages and have researched and begun studying 3 others, no more than 2-4 months of study each before deciding I wasn't interested in further study, and so I have experience with quite a few languages but I am by no means an expert on them nor language learning in general

>>24764164
This is where I get off with him. Him and Gobineau are tolerable until they start spewing shit like this

>>24764308
My excuse is neuroplasticity being that im a 43 year old flyover hick who just recently started higher education. Sure, people will seethe uncontrollably, but I'd prefer to be authentic than try to impress people ill likely never meet.

>>24764308
Also when I first started learning French, the ease of acquisition was one of the main factors which made me choose French over other languages like German or Russian since I hadn't read any French literature besides L'Étranger up until that point and thus had no real attachment to French literature but now I think it's simply the cherry on top

>>24764325
The key to language learning is simply spending time with the language
If you're attending college or university it might be difficult to find the time but don't let your age discourage you from studying a language
French is probably a good choice if you don't have that much time but I'd recommend you try to push past the beginner phase as quickly as possible without burning out since it's very frustrating and demoralising to be stuck as a beginner whose only learning activity is grinding anki and reading textbooks
I'd recommend French for Reading by Karl Sandberg as a textbook because it gets you started reading French ASAP
Imo you need to read aloud otherwise you will reinforce harmful habits like translating in your head

>>24764201
I reckon Owen spent way too much time on /int/

>>24764343
I've had this website recommended to me for learning French:

https://www.aliceayel.com/

Thoughts?

I talk to character.ai AI bots in French.
They even fix your shit

>>24764482
I'm not a fan since it's a lot slower of a method but you do need a lot of listening practice in order to comprehend spoken French which this would provide
I found that that was something I was missing when I focused so much time on reading French but I only learn languages in order to read literature so I don't really care that much

>>24764164
so was he a gallican or a papist?