Christophe wrote:If we omit Chinese and Hindu (and their variants), languages which remain very local in the national sense French is still the second language on the Internet ... after English... and since Salto is above all an internet service ...
This is not the info I have. The most spoken languages in the world, in total:
1 - English
2 - Mandarin
3 - Hindi
4 - Spanish
5 - French
and French also the third language "of business" it seems. But in fact the situation is much worse.
Because if we speak of native speakers, French is not even in the top 10. But when we talk about culture, film, TV series, natives prevail, especially for production.
With French-speaking Africa, for example, you would extend the field. But I doubt that you will find watchable series in France. I have a few French-speaking African TV channels by satellite (in "FTA"), it does not correspond at all to our quality requirements (even technical). North Africa, the technical quality is there, but I have never seen a series in French made in Morocco or Algeria. So yes, there may be a lot of francophones, but you won't be able to get a "francophonie" from series or TV, too much difference between countries, or non-native speakers.
Although sharing the language with the Ivorians, and this is not to criticize them because I really enjoyed my short stay there for work and precisely thanks to the common language, also the discussions including philosophy with local guy, but series and TV, no, it is not yet exchangeable, too many cultural differences, except always possible exceptions I have experienced it with a few films.
Countries which, if they do not share the language, on the other hand share a comparable level of development and a Western culture (even Korea is ultimately close to us), make possible the sharing of series and culture despite the barrier of language, and this is what gives the relative diversity that we find on Netflix and that we cannot find in Francophonie once out of the small group F / B / CH / Quebec.