French citizens fail language tests for foreigners seeking residency
Stricter requirements could lead to 60,000 people being refused permission to remain, report finds
Finally proving to the world that even the French can't write French properly.
Native Germans don't care about declensions.
Native Dutch people can't do -d or -t in their verbs.
Native English speakers can't keep "their" and "they're" apart.
We all just suck
Maybe we don’t all suck and language and grammar are arbitrary social constructs and treating them as immutable rules forgets the main point which is to convey meaning, not stick to traditions.
Yeah - you can spot people who learned german as a second language mostly by their totally correct usage of the german language. Nobody who grew up speaking german would ever think about speaking like that.
Amusingly, I'm a native English speaker who can keep their and they're apart. I'm not English though. I'm American.
Fuck you Brits. I can say "y'all" and while also properly separating "there", "their" and "they're" (it's a subtle difference but I can feel the difference in the way I pronounce them).
Git rekt.
Edit: I'm being a silly, dumbass USAmeri-cunt because it helps me cope with reality (please help ;~;). That said, I absolutely do occasionally seperate the pronunciation of there, their, and they're; but it also tends to be context-sensitive.
Le suq le coq
See? Easy.
back to l'école for everyone!
The written part here should have much less weight and the oral part be prioritised. Just as the lady said a lot of people don't have time to learn in such a manner.
On a different note our country recently lowered these language requirements and the results are horrendous. People barely being able to communicate the simplest concepts getting in and similarly.
