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When I grew up, I remember fondly learning, and speaking French with my Nonna, who took care of me on weekends when my father was at work. I was an intelligent child, I knew 210 English words in Kindergarten and had my name large on the wall, next to 43 in second place. Despite this, I was never interested. I was born in Atlanta, and lived in surrounding small towns, so I was never taught French in school, I decided to learn using IXL and got myself up to a 12th grade phonetics level midway through 4th grade. I remember a few times spending my time teaching kids French during recess, instead of playing, and nobody was interested. That is clear why for my peers, however, even modern Paris is 95% English besides road signs anymore. Or, broken African dialect French, which I had to learn all anew. And that stupid pompous dialect, when I was staying with my great Aunt in Paris for a summer. Yuck. 

Why is English so widely used, when Latin languages are so much better? Phonetically, descriptively, spiritually. It takes considerable effort to sound decent in English now, considering how the language has degraded. That can be said for all living languages, especially German and Dutch, however, languages like French, Italian, sound much better and are easier to learn and understand than English. English is convoluted, I speak how I do in French phonetically, which leads to lots of misunderstandings, perceived awkward spaces because people are anticipating filler words, when nothing exists in even modern Latin languages. 

"Let's go to the store." So convoluted. If I were trying to be comfortable I would say, "Store, let's go." Now, I sound demanding, or socially unaware. I don't understand why we sacrificed simplicity of language for 89% fluff. 

It's to do with the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr, I'm sure. One world language. 

There are still places I've met people online, like French-Switzerland, Belgium, where people speak phonetically correct, clear with a non-compensative accent. It is beautiful. We are throwing this away and it's something I think about almost every day.

English is the most spoken language because England conquered the civilized world at one time and carried out trade everywhere. Why is English even more universal now? Same reasons. Because of the almighty dollar. And Americanism. It's the language of commerce. You want to be a successful international businessman, you need to know English. You want to be a successful politician, you learn English. We live in a greed centered world that revolves around money. 

The USA is the biggest by GDP. (China is close behind, if not having surpassed us now, but that is another discussion.) Everyone wants to be American. Talk to the green card holders in this country. Their dream for many years is to be an American. Look at the Asians walking around NYC or at any national monument. They are enthralled by the American dream. "Yeah make da money, everything free, yay John Wayne, YMCA, baseball game, rocket ship, rah big apple, land of opportunity USA!!"  

  

When you first started posting on the forum you said that: “English is not my mother tongue, excuse any grammatical mistakes as I refuse to use computer translation.”

Since you were born and raised in the Atlanta area, what is your “mother tongue”?

English is my first tongue, not my preferred tongue. Before I entered school I was speaking both and took a preference toward French. I think French in my daily life. I write and speak both, English with grammatical issues sometimes. - I add, it was mostly deemed as "cool" or unique so I was never offered to change it. I have a unique accent, sounding like no one else in my family or town. I excelled anyways. 

When something is in your blood, this may be hard to understand, you feel a limerence towards it that makes you want to have to learn. My father wouldn't speak, my mother didn't, but my family did, and in a sense so does my heart. I'm a fish out of water here, yes. There are many times I've thought to myself movie writers would reject this because it's so unrealistic. I would like to offer that I understand your confusion more than you.

I use my real name, if you happen to meet anyone who has known me since childhood, a lot of my friends, they will concur.