Junge Leute ziehen sich vom Französischen zurück – und Quebec will Antworten

I wonder if it’s a case of Quebec’s French language policies becoming a „victim of their own success“?

Much of the rationale behind the French-first/only policies were rooted the fact (advanced at that time) that Quebec culture and their French language were threatened by the dominance of English language usage. It appears that the success of those policies in establishing French language usage has made the younger generation more confident and less concerned about English as a threat.

Not to be offensive but that’s probably because its not a very useful language. I understand wanting to preserve a culture and language, totally, and that’s great but to many people they might think why learn a language that outside of Quebec is basically only spoken in France, where these people don’t live. The world increasingly speaks English (unfortunately, if you want to look at it that way). And if you’re going to learn a second language to gain some kind of utility, it might as well be Mandarin. And young people who spend half their day on their phone/social apps, well that’s all in English too! So again, utility.