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It is a sea serpent, which had already occupied Holland's mandate, which resurfaced with Paul Molac's bill aimed at promoting the teaching of regional languages at school.
An initiative completely out of tune at a time when the level of students in French is increasingly worrying, and when our government does not even defend the place of French.
Of course, regional languages, and regional identities, are part of France's heritage and wealth.
And globalization, which encourages the study of the languages of other countries rather than that of Basque, Alsatian or Breton, tends to weaken them.
Paul Molac's bill has several objectives: to allow the teaching of regional languages to all those who wish it, by imposing the financing by the municipalities of bilingual education, to allow a form of immersive teaching by modifying the code of education, and improve their visibility, via road signs and the inclusion of diacritics in civil status, such as the tilde on the “
n
” of certain Breton names.
We are in line with the charter of European regional languages.
The level of students in French continues to decline and it is not by teaching them, in addition, a regional language that learning French will be improved.
But France is also, everywhere in the country, the clear primacy of French, critical vector of our unity and our identity, over all regional languages.
This proposal therefore poses two major problems.
First, it is quite frightening to want to give more space to regional languages, after having accepted such a decline in French.
The Toubon law proved to be a Maginot line in the face of the invasion of globish in advertisements, where Evian offers to live young in English… Even our identity card has recently become Franco-English, following a request (accepted) from the EU.
Will it become trilingual tomorrow to meet all the needs of our time?
In addition, France seems indifferent to the linguistic evolution of the EU, where English, despite Brexit, is imposed every day more as the lingua franca of the continent, which French should challenge it.
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And in terms of education, if it is legitimate to let those who wish to learn their regional language, wanting to promote it more poses a doubly problem, as pointed out by Jean-Pierre Chevènement when he left the Jospin government on the issue of Corsica.
Because if the project specifies that this teaching must be done "
without prejudice to the objective of a good knowledge of the French language
", this is today illusory.
The level of students in French continues to drop as shown by this control dictation, where the number of mistakes of CM2 students has fallen from 10.4 to 17.8 in 30 years.
However, it is quite obvious that it is not by teaching them a regional language at the same time that this will improve the learning of French.
And this, especially since, under Holland, the learning of English was pushed.
Today, it is urgent to provide resources and extra time to learning our common language, the cement of our nation that is far too forgotten.
Behind the grip of French, between English, the languages of origin for some, and regional languages, it is difficult not to see in it a deeply anti-national agenda.
More generally, this agenda, promoted for more than twenty years by the European Union, is anything but neutral.
Behind the grip of French, between English, the languages of origin for some, and regional languages, it is difficult not to see in it a deeply anti-national agenda.
While the nation has been weakened for forty years by the supranational, regionalist and identity agenda, we must oppose such a project, even if it may seem sympathetic and bearing little consequence.
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It is the addition of a multitude of measures, which may seem relatively innocuous in isolation, that spoils the glue that makes our nation.
And because French has a major place in this cement, as the promoters of our nation understood, it must be protected from any initiative that could weaken it even more, even if this is done in the name of traditions to defend, as is the case here.
With French still less well mastered by the younger generations, competing with English, promoting regional languages is a very bad idea, to be rejected.
The only priority that we should have is more to defend the place of our common language in the public space, but also to make it the number one priority of national education, a thousand leagues ahead of all other languages, including he apprenticeship should only come after having acquired a good command of French.
