Thread: Members of Ukrainian parliament fight over Russian language

Originally Posted by LXNDR

Russian Federation is a federation therefore by its very design it must respect national languages of the federation members

That's the main fault of Russia. We just had to abandon the federation...
The alnguage policy is very tough in France as far as I know. They have practically destroyed other languages and dialects.

Originally Posted by Marcus

The alnguage policy is very tough in France as far as I know. They have practically destroyed other languages and dialects.

No, no - it's just English that the French hate (not all, but many). They just want to protect their language against English, so there are quotas about how much English songs can be played on the radio etc. Most young people totally ignore all this and absolutely nothing happens.

They have some LOCAL languages there, like Occitane and Basque. These are given plenty of support. There are also some people in France that actually have German as their mother tongue (Alsace - belonged to Germany earlier). This is no problem for France either. I know a person from this area and he is bilingual which means he was able to get a great job in Zurich.

That's the main fault of Russia. We just had to abandon the federation...

This almost deserves a separate thread, to hear your views on this.