French Language

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French is a Romance language globally spoken by about 77 million people as a first language, by 190 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France, where the language originated. The rest live essentially in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, French-speaking Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, certain parts of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Most second-language speakers of French live in Francophonic Africa, arguably exceeding the number of native speakers. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the Francophone country with the largest population.

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  • Gaga over baby talk

    National Post 22 minutes ago

    One of the open-ended questions it asks is whether daycare centres should introduce "French-language requirements" for staff in their dealings with children ...

  • USC professor creates an entire alien language for 'Avatar'

    Los Angeles Times 7 hours, 16 minutes ago

    ... which means more language will be needed. I spent three weeks in May, too, working on the video game for Ubisoft, which is the name of a French company. ...

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