Use of the French in the ESC

[Michelangelo]

For practical resons: French is not needed at all. If you want a 2nd language then perhaps allow using the local one.

Yes, I agree. That's actually a good idea - to have the local one istead. The reason I want the french language in the contest, is purely nostalgic. It's not needed at all today. For obvious reasons we've talked about already. But another reason is that there are far more countries in the contest todat, than the french speaking ones. I doubt that the french are in majority today.

 

[nikolay_BG]

^The french talking countries can use translators like the rest of us

 

[Quent91]

Anyway, French is the official language of the EBU, along with English. They won't change it. It's like going to Portugal and changing portuguese to italian

 

[Yamarus]

Yes, French is the other official language of the EBU so it's there to stay and I like it, because it gives the ESC its distinctive feel. I do understand that it feels unfair to other countries, but frankly the amount of French spoken at the Contest these days is minimal. I don't have precise numbers but at Düsseldorf, hosts probably spoke 80% English.

 

[Quent91]

I don't have precise numbers but at Düsseldorf, hosts probably spoke 80% English.

Actually, it seems that they spoke more French than in Oslo. Especially during the semi-finals I think

 

[Fixxen]

I don't know about that whole nostalgia thing you're talking about, I feel pretty negative to it, I must say. You cannot just only stick to old traditions the whole contest through. New things have come up: the semi finals were introduced some years ago, there isn't ONLY a jury anymore that decide the winners, the music is recorded instead of having a live orchestra on stage etc. Not all of us thinks that these changes and developments are good (I, for one, would have loved an orchestra instead of playback), but the point is the reason "nostalgia" isn't a really good one, I think.

 

[Narmina]

for me 50/50 is good

 

[CC92]

I would like to hear more european languages than English. But why does it always have to french:?:
I advocate in English and the local language.

 

[Quent91]

But why does it always have to french:?:

EBU official language

 

[escandesc]

I don't mind actually. I love French but I do not think that French is really necessary. so voted for Less French...