Thanks for Contributing! You just created a new WN page. Learn more »
On March 20th, francophones all over the world, including Ireland, will gather to celebrate the French language during the International Day of Francophonie ... French is the official language of key international organisations such as the United Nations, the European Union and the African Union ... the assignment of 60 French assistants each year in ......
The Irish Times 2015-03-18Encouraging them towards a more moderate "French" Islam is an old idea that has again surfaced in the wake of the Paris attacks by Islamist militants that killed 17 people in January ... Educators, such as sociologist and former ICP teacher Olivier Bobineau, question whether a university setting with its French-language requirement is the right forum to reach imams, many of whom work in poor suburbs inhabited by immigrants....
Huffington Post 2015-03-18Encouraging them towards a more moderate "French" Islam is an old idea that has again surfaced in the wake of the Paris attacks by Islamist militants that killed 17 people in January ... Educators, such as sociologist and former ICP teacher Olivier Bobineau, question whether a university setting with its French-language requirement is the right forum to reach imams, many of whom work in poor suburbs inhabited by immigrants....
Reuters 2015-03-18Encouraging them towards a more moderate "French" Islam is an old idea that has again surfaced in the wake of the Paris attacks by Islamist militants that killed 17 people in January ... Educators, such as sociologist and former ICP teacher Olivier Bobineau, question whether a university setting with its French-language requirement is the right forum to reach imams, many of whom work in poor suburbs inhabited by immigrants....
Voa News 2015-03-18... lawmakers will recognize the contributions of all those across Maine who have helped preserve and promote the Franco culture and French language....
Seattle Post 2015-03-18Watch the official In My French Language () video by GameFace in HD on WWW.MUZU.TV and check out the latest new music releases and playlists for free. ....
MUZU.TV 2015-03-17Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development of the French Republic) ... On the eve of the Semaine internationale de la francophonie, the festival will showcase a dozen French-language feature films selected for major international festivals that are rarely screened in Canada ... who make up the French-speaking world....
noodls 2015-03-17Marion Cotillard’s ‘Two Days, One Night’ among French language films to be screened at three-day festival ....
Gulf News 2015-03-17[ANGOP] Luanda -Luanda is officially hosting as from Saturday this year's Week of the Francophone and the French language, going until 21 March with various cultural and festive activities organized by the Alliance Française (AFL), in partnership with the Member of the International Francophone Organization represented in the country, and the French-speaking schools and Angolan teacher training schools. ....
All Africa 2015-03-16"Together, let us celebrate our precious treasure that is the French language and let us promote the Acadian and francophone culture within our schools and our communities throughout the province," said Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Serge Rousselle ... Students, parents, school staff, and communities will demonstrate their pride in the French language and their attachment to Acadian and francophone culture....
noodls 2015-03-16"Together, let us celebrate our precious treasure that is the French language and let us promote the Acadian and francophone culture within our schools and our communities throughout the province," said Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Serge Rousselle ... Students, parents, school staff, and communities will demonstrate their pride in the French language and their attachment to Acadian and francophone culture....
noodls 2015-03-16To commemorate French Language Week France's Education Ministry has published a list of ten foreign words that have been adopted into French in a bid to show the language's adaptability and openness to foreign influence. ....
The Local 2015-03-16... & Lenny, the feature debut of French director Fred Nicolas ... This socio-politically charged drama, served up with a generous helping of French-language rap music, is sturdy festival material, with some offshore theatrical sales possible though VOD pickups more likely....
The Hollywood Reporter 2015-03-16French (le français [lə fʁɑ̃sɛ] or la langue française [la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]) is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the province of Quebec and the Acadia region in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts of the world, the largest numbers of whom reside in Francophone Africa. In Africa, French is most commonly spoken in Gabon (where 80% report fluency)Mauritius (78%), Algeria (75%), Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire (70%). French is estimated as having between 70 million and 110 million native speakers and 190 million second language speakers. French is the second-most studied foreign language in the world, after English.
French is a distortion of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, as are languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Sardinian and Catalan. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl, languages historically spoken in northern France and Belgium which have largely been supplanted by French today. The development of French was also influenced by the native Celtic languages of Roman Gaul and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole.