I&#x27;m in your exact situation.<p>And as a consequence (or cause) I am now seeing French as inadequate. It&#x27;s such a verbose and slow language.<p>I don&#x27;t deny its rare beauty when used ideally (think poetry, good writers, Francoise Hardy singing).<p>But in practice, what twisted collective mind could come up and stay with &quot;Qu&#x27;est ce que c&#x27;est ?&quot; (What is it ?) ? That monster literally translate to &quot;What is this that it is ?&quot;.<p>In a fast and unifying world I am positive French is doomed.<p>When arguing this with people I always get rebutted with the likes of &quot;French is very rich.. It is just different..but none the less valuable..&quot;
I don&#x27;t think so. English is an efficient superset of french. You can express as much or more subtlety, feelings or facts in English. Take only the vocabulary : It&#x27;s just larger in English ! (And in fact contains a good chunk of the French).