Hello and welcome to a new episode of Coffee Break French To Go!
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My question today is:
Is learning a foreign language important to you? (Pour toi, est-il important d’apprendre une langue étrangère ?)
Or more formally:
Is learning a foreign language important to you? (Pour vous, est-il important d’apprendre une langue étrangère ?)
Now let's look at how people responded.
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Wow, those were some great answers!
Let's watch them again, but with subtitles this time.
Yes, it's very important to communicate with as many people as possible.
It's essential, it's essentail.
Today if we only talk our own language, I think that makes us practically illiterate,
I mean that learning a language is really, it's a key, in fact.
Une langue étrangère c’est une clé qu’on vous donne qui ouvre plein de portes.
There you go. That's how I see it.
Yes, it seems really important to me because, at the end of the day, it's the basis of everything
to communicate with other people around the world, it's vital.
Yes, of course.
To be able to travel, exchange views with people from other countries.
It's really important and it stops you from being... from being unable to communicate outside (your country).
Personally I would say yes because actually, when you travel,
there's the language barrier and so it's more complicated to be able to communicate easily.
You can understand people better, exchange views more effectively, benefit more from travelling, actually.
Well, it seems to me that it's important to learn a foreign language
because it allows you to communicate with people with whom we couldn't otherwise be in contact.
It's also the means to discovering a new culture, there you go, to open up the world.
Well yeah, for that reason in itself, and then even now, if we don't speak a minimum of two languages,
it's even more complicated to find a job later on.
So it's worth speaking several languages to open up the world, but also to find a job later.
Well, yes, for me it's important to learn foreign languages,
to be able to communicate with other people around the world
because that's where we look towards an international world, globalisation,
and we are more and more closely linked to people from other countries.
Well, I really like learning foreign languages because
it allows me to meet people easily when I go abroad.
and it's a subject that I like a lot at school.
Yes, it's true that English is a universal language, so, personally,
I mostly learn English because well, exactly that, when we travel
we like to make ourselves understood and make sure others understand us
so, for me, it's very important to really get to know another language.
Great! All those answers comfort me with the idea that it's very important to learn a foreign language,
especially with Coffee Break French To Go!
So, are you ready for my question now?
Is learning a foreign language important to you?
Well done! Excellent!
Well, that's all for today, but we'll be back very, very soon for a new episode.
Bye!
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