正如我结识的来自非洲、加拿大、瑞士、比利时及越南的说法语的朋友数量之多所证明的,在国际上法语决不是英语的微不足道的对手。
As the number of my French-speaking acquaintances from Africa , Canada , Switzerland , Belgium and Vietnam attests , French is by no means a negligible competitor of English internationally .