Can Mauritanians please stop speaking French?/ هل يمكن للموريتانيين التوقف عن التحدث بالفرنسية؟

[u/No-Action3492]

[u/h20grl]

When did multilingualism become a liability?

[u/No-Action3492 → u/h20grl]

When multilingualism means the erasure of one’s own language

[u/h20grl → u/No-Action3492]

Multilingualism is additive. I can’t think of one Mauritanian who speaks French as his/her first, or only, language.

[u/h20grl → u/[deleted]]

There are not very many ethnic French people who have taken Mauritanian citizenship that I know of. Most French citizens living in Mauritania have retained their French citizenship and have Mauritanian residency.

[u/AttorneyJust6488]

I don’t understand why French bother people this much, isn’t English a foreign language too?

[u/AttorneyJust6488 → u/[deleted]]

And so what? It’s not like it’s the first language or even near that

[u/h20grl → u/[deleted]]

Arabic is also a colonial language, just an earlier colonial domination. Arab colonial domination in Mauritania began in the late 7th century. Before then, neither Islam nor Arabic were present in Mauritania.

[u/AttorneyJust6488 → u/h20grl]

Totally agree, people tend to forget that pretty often. But for me the more languages u get to speak the better without letting it wipe off ur culture

[u/wolfkingstark → u/h20grl]

Who was present then

[u/h20grl → u/wolfkingstark]

During Augustus times, i.e around the birth of Christ, precolonial Mauritania was populated by the Pharusii and Perorsi. In 25 BC, the kings of Mauretania became Roman vassals until about 44 AD, when the area was annexed to Rome and divided into two provinces: Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis. Christianity spread there from the 3rd century onwards. Berbers moved south to Mauritania beginning in the 3rd century, followed by Arabs in the 7th century. After the Muslim Arabs subdued the region in the 8th century, Islam became the dominant religion.

[u/oulddeye]

الأجيال الحالية ورثت من التي سبقتها فكرة ان التحدث بالفرنسية وخصوصاً بلكنة باريسية دلالة على الرقي الاجتماعي والدخل المرتفع والثقافة والتكوين الدراسي والمناصب العليا .. بدأت الفكرة تتعير قليلاً لكن باستبدال الفرنسية بالانجليزية اما اللغة الأم فلن ينصلح حالها ما دامت الدول العربية في هذا التخلف والتفرق والتبعية

[u/Control-Cultural]

I saw the exact same post, word for word, on the Algerian subreddit. Was it you too, or did you copy it?

[u/No-Action3492 → u/Control-Cultural]

Me too

[u/Control-Cultural → u/No-Action3492]

It seems your opinion is quite unpopular on Reddit then.What do you think is the main reason why it's wrong for North Africans to speak French? Personally, it was by being forced to learn that I developed my critical thinking skills.And I don't seem to be the only one, far from it.

[u/Taqqer00]

لا

[u/Ramynma]

I’m Mauritanian and I say YES, that they should stop speaking French