Algeria is increasingly moving away from French towards English

[Tooting Carmen]

I would personally only like French decline to be prevented if France could free itself from the shackles of the US and masonic politicians like Macron. France under a Le Pen would be acceptable and good for the world. Current France is a force of evil.

No more than most other Western nations are. Anyway, my main issue here is that, just as I think it is better to have a balance of powers rather than one overarching superpower, so it is better to have a balance of languages rather than one completely universalised language.

[Tooting Carmen]

People can learn another languages as it happened in the past. My genetic ancestors 2000 years ago weren't finno-ugric speakers, do I feel bad that my ancestors changed their language? I don't. Language of a population can easily be changed. Genetics cannot be.

On this basis, Europeans (and East Asians) should be able to feel more commonality than Americans or Brazilians of all races do with each other, which is a nonsense.

[sanhadji]

learning french is a waste of time all african nations that have learned it don't use it it's a a difficult language algerians are not fluent

This. English is today's lingua franca. It's a waste of time to learn french nowadays, unless you are an idealist or romantic like OP.

Also, I think algerians are the ones who leech France the most, so I'm pretty sure the ethnic french will feel relieved if algerians start moving to the anglosphere.

you're off the mark, france leech algeria : they spent 130 years to claim algeria as france, don't be jealous most immigrants in france are south west euros and they don't learn french in their countries

No, it is just a knee jerk reaction on my part at seeing Frenchiness being kicked out. Americanism is, at best, a lesser evil, but still a problem nonetheless. I agree with you on it being more proper for them to have indulged in an "authenticité" movement like the Congolese did (even if these ones got to extreme lengths on it) by replacing French with a native tongue of the area. Sadly, that tongue would probably be Arabic (EliasAlucard accused them of being pseudo-Arabs after all) instead of Amazigh or related.

sadly ... we recognize sudaca intellect, the native language is darija a algerian form of arabic there is nothing new

[Zanzibar]

This is silly and petty. Making English as an official language doesn't mean Algeria is going to be more successful economically or become a superpower. Don't think it will even make much difference tbh.

Look at India, Philippines, Nigeria, Jamaica- they all have high English fluency and they are still third world/underdeveloping countries. At the same time, look at Japan, Korea, China, Russia- most of their people hardly known any to literally zero English but they are successful/world superpowers.

You are literally replacing one colonial language with another one.

[Tooting Carmen]

This is a bit silly. Making English as an official language doesn't mean Algeria is going to be more successful economically or become a superpower. Don't think it will even make much difference tbh.

Look at India, Philippines, Nigeria, Jamaica- they all have high English fluency and they are still third world countries. At the same time, look at Japan, Korea, China, Russia- they hardly know English but they are successful/world superpowers.

You are literally replacing one colonial language with another one.

Precisely my point. (A similar delusion also appears sporadically among some Latin Americans - this very forum has had Mexican and Costa Rican users thinking their countries would become much more prosperous were they to supplant Spanish with English).