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PS there are a lot of poeple who don`t want German language as a official UE. Could you imagine French / Poles speaking German .? Sry
As I showed you already alot of Poles are speaking/studying German...for France even more so, just think about the Alsace:
ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=FR
German:
1,500,000 in France (Hawkins 1987). Northeast, Alsace. Alternate names: Alemannic, Alemannisch. Dialects: Alsatian (Alsacien, Elsaessisch). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, German, Upper German, Alemannic
More information.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France#Language_education
Regarding other languages, English, German and Spanish are the most commonly studied foreign languages in French schools.
If you personally have an aversion against German don't think it's a european phenomenon! ;)
But again, it wasn't my idea that the EU needs a lone lingua franca (but Grubas'), I'm quite satisfied as it is, with German, English and French the official languages of the EU.
PS: Do you know how many Poles speak german because they live/work in Germany? Must be millions too ;)
freebase.com/view/en/polish_germans
Polish minority in Germany, is the second largest Polish minority (Polonia) in the world and the biggest in Europe. Estimations of the number of Poles living in Germany vary from 384,808 Poles with exclusively Polish citizenship to about 2 million and with up to three million people living that might be of Polish descent...
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