As an Englishman who hates everything French for Absolutely No Reason I see this as a massive W

French is making a decline even in Algeria.

French fascism is ending and will be ended.

English is the most spoken language in the world now and lingua franca. It is almost impossible for any language to take over or come even close to English now.

Swahili language is now replacing the colonial languages!

There is many good French ppl. But African ppl are tired of the French system abusing African countries 💡

My mom is french 🇲🇫 my father is türk🇹🇷, I live in Türkiye and when I came to Türkiye 5 years ago I wanted to be French teacher but I changed my mind because nobody here want to learn French. There are 200 universities here only 10 have french department and after that to find a job it's very difficult. Turks today prefer learn German, russian and English. So yes french language losing its place. French is dead in Türkiye.

French is a very beautiful language but I support former colonial countries reclaiming their own language.

I think English has transcended the status of being a language to be a skill. In modern world it’s important to learn certain skills like driving. Ability to speak good English has also become a necessary skill for survival. No language has been able to do this in human history.

Nice video, but I think the video forgot to mention another important factor which has led to the decline of French and that is the entertainment industry. Whether it's hollywood or social media media, English has been dominating these fields. The impact of entertainment is very high on learning of languages. Most of my cousins, friends and even my little brother are fluent English speakers thanks to consummation of American and British cartoons and films. Meanwhile I have never seen or even heard of any French cartoons. And another reason that is the amount of people making migration to English speaking countries like the US, Canada, UK and Australia.

We as North Africans have our own God given languages Darija and Tamazight. We don’t need the colonial of Europeans.

Working not long ago had a young algerian student working alongside me,i was talking to him in french,not too well.Anyway he said younger generation prefer to learn english now

The french far right when addressing arabs and africans tell them they shouldn't speak french because french is not theirs to use! Well they'll get what they want !

The french is a foreign language and may soon become less and rejected throughout the whole world, the whole world is changing for the new future

If english is introduced anywhere then french will loose. french can not compete with english. Plus france is giving African countries problems neo colonialism. So it makes sense for them to remove french and introduce english.

French is declining as the French speaking Africa is slowly switching to English. Britain left it's colonies after their independence but France still interferes militarily, financially and politically with it's former colonies. In next 25 years the French status will decline as English will became second language in French Africa.

French vs English means France vs UK English is the official language after 1945. USA took advantage of English

I have nothing against the French people, but French may well be the last language I would think of learning or teaching my children or even advising almost any person to learn.

One reason for the decline of French could be that it is very complicated

Meanwhile France assimilates its own language and culture Bretons Flemish Catalonians and Corsicans. Hope Africa can regain its own tongue.

If France has been more affirmative in ending the CFA franc system based in Paris and issuing currency for 14 African countries the sentiment might be more positive.

Personally, I don't really like the idea of English as the linguafranca either...but the truth is that English is a skill language. There isn't much argument for the continuation of French. The colonial legacy is just negative and insulting, and idea that it just needs to be used for "prestige" and maintain French influence is even more so! African countries should support African languages.

How cruel n callous it was for Colonial Powers to impose their ideological superiority on colonised Nations with total disregard to humanity that they deemed fit to be dominated in every manner to lose their identity. FRENCH still carry the flag of that arrogance..But there is no problem in learning the languages when it is not imposed. Speaking languages is a great art on the hynside.

I had to learn french as a child. It was the biggest waste of time ever. As an adult I can tell you that it definitely didn’t pay off. People are better off learning Mandarin and Spanish.

English would have declined too if it was not used by americans. Commonwealth countries speak English becauss of the British but if America spoke some other language countries would've abandoned English by now.

The one and only reason why people choose English over French and other languages is financial and economic issues.....

We need to wipe out colonialism

since this video came out, mali has dropped french as an official language

There is nothing wrong with this. Countries that have been colonised and forced a language on them should return fully independent. Franch and other western countries should be fined based on their colonial history.

Guess which country receives $500 billion dollars every year from 14 poor African countries? ( Aka post colonial tax). France 🇫🇷 !!!

French should not vanish on the continent, it should be used to get reparations for all the damage France has caused. It can also be used to prosecute the rapists, killers and thieves of the French empire who have charges to answer to in Africa and Haiti.

Time to Replace French By Russian.

How can you maintain relevancy when almost all the country you colonised are the poorest amongst the poor?

French is not a love language. It is a colonial language and it is good that others are dumping it.

I don't see any logical, practical reason why French should not be supplanted by English as the dominant language. Preserving a language that isn't serving the international community well doesn't make a lot of sense. There is a lot of whining and crying out there concerning the demise of languages but it just seems like the natural and pragmatic evolution of culture to me. Not to say that English is a "superior" language but rather that it's the best or at least one of the best languages for business communication around the world and the world really does run around business. I also frequently hear, especially among Europeans, boasting about the ability to speak multiple languages. This usually directed at Americans, as though their monolingual habits somehow make them less "educated". That's nonsense. Imagine the greatly increased efficiency of communication around the world if one needs only to understand, speak, write in 1 or 2 languages, not 5, 10 or more. That's just sound practical reason.

Non of the comments are in French on a subject of French interest!! This sums it up all!!

We want to learn Russian language

For business purpose, learning English, Spanish and Arabic is better. If you love fashion, arts or poetry, then you can learn "the language of love"

The two biggest economic and military powers in the world are the United States (which speaks English) and China (which speaks Mandarin). India (largely speaks Hindi, English and Punjabi), the Philippines (speaks Tagalog and English), Indonesia (speaks Bahasa Indonesia) and Nigeria (which speaks English) have the four fastest growing populations in the world. English is the default language in international trade, diplomacy, science and engineering. How exactly does France think the French language will remain relevant to or fit in, going forward in the later 21st and 22nd centuries?

French is a beautiful language, but is only useful in France tbh. And i completely understand why countries in Africa are dumping the language, unfortunately, France’s greed, terror and racism (back in their own country) has not helped in keeping their language alive outside of France. The fact they speak of liberty so much yet rule with a fist if u don’t fit into their mould is hypocrisy in itself. So sad they cannot even see that let alone accept that reality.

Good bye France

French is RAINBOW 🌈 Language

This video came at the right time. I just watched videos on how rwanda changed from french to english. french is loosing strength. More countries to replace french with english and indigenous languages. Burundi algeria, morocco and others will follow. Vietnam removed french long years ago and today if you speak french there, they will not undertand you.

Free Africa ✊ from modern colonialism France 🇫🇷

I prefer English than French

Good to hear down to the drain their time is gone

Me an algerian yes French lost a lot still official and used but the modern generation is getting used to English more better than French Me right now : Spanish is my new path 😎😎

Oh my god all doom and gloom. Though it is true that French is not as spoken as much as English it is still an important language. I live in Canada and if indeed the numbers of native French speakers has diminished it is still much more spoken than say 50 years ago. Being an official language at all level of the Canadian Government and official in several provinces. As for North Africa if indeed English is now common French rules as a second language. Finally 2 languages have progressed even faster than English : Spanish (the most spoken language in the world after Mandarin Chinese) and Hindi. English is truly the only international language but not everyone speaks it and other languages are very useful.

Well, the decline of French is quite relative, as it is one of the fastest growing languages in the World. But, coming from a state owned Turkish broadcast, neutrality of POV is not really possible.

Free English Speaking Cameroon 💎

So you drop french because you don’t like colonial language, but then you replace it with English or Arabic ? This is stupid

Even English is a colonial language . Most countries colonised by french are turning to english

Learning language of former occupier its not necessary

No France 👉🏻🇫🇷 Let's study Vietnam French has been erased from the Vietnamese community

Futurama had it right about this dead language.

France this lesson-giving country that will spend the winter with power cuts like a third world country🤣

Brilliant reporting.

You really can't blame those African countries, they have every right to pick whatever language they like to use.

Here's some historical facts about this issue: Unfortunately during 19th century, the French population barely had any growth in comparison with other European states, the proof is that only a few French emigrated to America or different places compared with millions of other Europeans who did that.The French population only grew by 8.6% between 1871 and 1911, while Germany's grew by 60% and Britain's by 54%. For four years in the 1890s, the number of deaths exceeded the number of births. During the colonial era, less than 120 thousand French settled in America, unlike 1.5 million from Spain and 950 thousand from Britain and Ireland. In WW1, France lost 10% of its male population, and millions of potential births were lost. So, to sum up, France always had deep demographic problem that whose consequences could be reflected on this particular issue.

Keep your own mother tongue and formulate just ONE extra language taught in all schools worldwide. It is not about pushing one culture it is about ALL cultures sharing common goals by communicating.

No more colonies 👎

French has too much ambiguity. Every phrases can be interpreted in so different ways. So, it is not good for international laws and trade.

Yes to English.✔ No to French.❌

I am long boycotting anything French and will keep doing it till I die.

France is is déclining in several key areas not only language.

... the French language is not influential anymore so don't waste your time learning it ... learn English, Spanish and maybe Mandarin ... or set up your Google Translator ... it's amazing ...

Im a french girl and i want french to replace English as the global language such a sweet language is french

I would like to learn a little French.

The Francophonie is comatose.

I’m glad I learned French you can easily learn English and French the more languages you know the better I know English German and French and Arabic I don’t regret it

As an indian i need to agree English is donating as a language

Congratulations France!

This video only covered the issue surface level. France was very reluctant to let go of its colonial power over it ex-colonial and screw them over in many ways, even causing coups and replacing rightful presidential candidates with pro-France ones. Not to mention, the brutal massacres(the French killed 1.5 million Algerians they committed on groups that fought for independence like the Algerians or how they set up the Hutu/Tutsi divide by deciding Tutsi were descended from White people (they weren't) and only giving them positions of power which caused resentment and led to the Rwandan genocide or the religious divides they stirred in the Levant that led to Lebanon (named after the predominantly Christian Mount Lebanon region) becoming its own country due to being predominantly Christian at the time and would eventually lead to the Lebanese civil war. Not to mention the CFA Franc situation and how France heavily controls the currency of many French speaking African countries. France continues to screw over many African countries which has led to the France and the French language being seen as the enemy in many African countries where there already is a native predominant spoken language like Maghrebi Arabic in North Africa. Some of the information is inaccurate though. Rwanda hasn't dropped French, it has just been promoting English and Swahili more as those are the languages of its neighbors that it does trade with. It's also wrong about Canada. I used to live there and the number of Bilingual English-French speakers has increased outside of Quebec and inside. More native English speakers outside and inside of Quebec can speak French than at any point of Canadian history. What people do is that they count native language and home language and use that to fearmonger about the death of French to make more drastic laws concerning French in Quebec. So more people can speak French now than any point in history, but because those people might have been born in Morocco and speak Arabic natively, but since French is an official language in Morocco, you learned French fluently and so you use that to immigrate to Quebec. Even though you speak French fluently, on a Canadian census on native tongue, it will register you as a non-native French speaker because you learnt French afterwards. Or if you have Moroccan parents and you speak mostly Arabic at home, but your parents also taught you French, the fact that you also speak French doesn't matter. Since your home language is mainly Arabic, it's registered that your home language is not French. Or if your parents are Ukrainian immigrants for example and don't speak French to you at all at home, but living in Quebec, your schooling and social life is carried out entirely in French, it still doesn't matter on the Canadian census, Ukrainian is still put as your home language so the census is very restrictive and doesn't fully explain the situation. The same has happened with English, as many Canadians in Canada were originally born outside of Canada, they speak a language with their children at home that isn't English which causes the amount of Canadians who speak English at home to drop as well, but English is by far the dominant language in Canada, amongst immigrants and especially their children who often speak their parents' language with their parents and many can't speak their parents' tongue, but only understand it.

It's all about what you can earn from learning a language. English is widely spoken worldwide because it's a rich language in Science, technology, knowledge and also business. Arabic is very important because it's the language of the Islamic world, some 2 billion people and gives exclusive access to an ocean of knowledge of the Quran, history, philosophy, poetry and Islamic tradition. Chinese is becoming more and more important in trade and business and will soon become Indispensable in technology and science. French doesn't give exclusive access to some form of knowledge, is not an important language for doing business. No wonder why people are not willing to waste their time learning it...

I want to learn all of the languages in the world as I can except French. I don't know why I can't feel the French language its sounds are very ugly for me.

In my opinion English is much more easier and simple than french, in french i have to think the gender of the noun and so on but in English every words just neutral, i mean i learnt English just by translating some BBC articles and translate it to my language and it just took me 2 months to get used to it and do keep in mind that i barely learn grammar rules but even then i can understand like 70% of what i read in some random English articles. And lastly i think most native English speakers are much more forgiving to have a conversation with i mean even if my grammar is still broken nobody care about it. And btw i learn English language just for hobby thanks.

Señores abran paso al idioma ESPAÑOL 💃 y olé

English is global lenguage, just enaought spoken in mother lenguage and English

Imagine french language without the letter "R"

Why should we learn the language of our arch-enemy? Greetings from Germany.

In the next 20 to 30 years French language will be a total decline In Africa , France is the most hated nation in Africa today just watch and see it happen

I have no esteem or affection for the French but I love the French language. Is this possible ?!

The sun never sets in the English world

It did it already decades ago to English language !!

A good move. Francophone is the extension of French colonialism.

You only have to know how to say " I surrender."

Good. All the former countries must abandon French language.

Goodbye, French Language. Au revoir.

The problem is the English language and is not because of the British nor the Aussies, not the candians not the Irish it's the Americans yep, English is really popular wnd it's because of America. If American didn't exist English wouldnt be so powerful

they said , speak English Language to be like a Gentlemen. and speak French to be a Beggar . that's why African Countries were French Colonies , were too poor . yet they said the French are the Most Grudges holder people in the EU . and always use the "Je me souviens ". they are not Diplomatic . they do not try recognise any indigenous people on this Earth except themselves.

I switched to english for many years now. I think that alla africans that still consider this language as theirs are wrong and sorry but without dignity.

There is good news that mali removed french as being an official language.

Lmao this turkish channel really has something against France. I've notice the constant bashing of anything in relation to french. Geopolitics are interesting...

These people are not French, they just speak the French language.

I am so happy😁 that this is happening. 🐸🔨🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏

English is the langage of science and business that s why french langage is in décline every where even in france itself

The new African Revolution!

English is pushing everything aside. It's kind of ironic, because French tried to push English aside about a thousand years ago.

Why should anyone speak French out of France? Do we worry about Wolof not spoken out of Senegal?

Lol. These colonizers really thought they were better at everything.