All politics aside, French is a very beautiful, elegant language to many of us who are not at all fluent.
It even sounds attractive to the ear when the speaker is angry. Of course, if I had to actually learn what was being said by some angry Frenchman, I would probably get over that particular impression very quickly.
Some of the derivative dialects are also intriguing; such as Haitian Creole or Quebecois, the french spoken in Quebec, Montreal. I just wish the French would fight a little bit harder to preserve their country from The Invaders. Oh well, maybe Mademoiselle LePen will win in a few months.
I understand it and I love the French language too. It is an adjective driven, descriptive language. It helps to pin things down, but it has more emotion. German is more defining, and French is more expansive. English is more useful, somewhere in between those two (I am biased toward English, as it’s my mother tongue).
Funny how I always thought Italian, which I mostly do not understand, sounds so beautiful, but when you hear two Italians on the road in a bit of road rage, or teen boys getting raucous on a train, it’s not as beautiful sounding. Lol.
“Oh well, maybe Mademoiselle LePen will win in a few months.”
Just maybe she’ll be a modern Joan of Arc. Because it sure looks like it will take the hand of God to save Western Europe.