Hey, I'm trying to get back into learning French again. Say what you will about :france-cool: and its empire, but its working class kinda rules (please don't bully me in the afterlife, Mr. Sankara).
I have grown more and more angry at just how popular the right-wing is, and I am hoping that the right isn't the political default in Francophone countries and that chan/Amerikkkan "culture" hasn't poisoned the minds of people into being vulgar pigs. So if there's a corner of the internet/media sphere in another language that's more polite, I'd be happy to learn about it.
Mandarin, obviously, as well, but of course everyone here knows that.
Mandarin has sparked my interest for sure, but I had some high hopes for French just because the working class there seemed pretty cool.
Working class Francophones were largely cool up until like, the 70s.