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French (le français [lə fʁɑ̃sɛ] or la langue française [la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]) is a Romance language, belonging to the Indo-European family. It descended from the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, as did languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan and others. French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica 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. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.
French is the official language in 29 countries, most of which are members of la francophonie, the community of French-speaking countries. It is spoken as a first language in France, southern Belgium, western Switzerland, Monaco, certain parts of Canada and the United States, and by various communities elsewhere. As of 2015, 40% of the francophone population (including L2 and partial speakers) is in Europe, 35% in sub-Saharan Africa, 15% in North Africa and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas, and 1% in Asia and Oceania.
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Vaani Kapoor (born 23 August 1988) is an Indian actress and model. She played leading roles in two films produced by Yash Raj Films — Shuddh Desi Romance (2013) and Aaha Kalyanam (2014).
Kapoor's father is a furniture exports entrepreneur and her mother is a teacher-turned marketing executive.She did her schooling at the Mata Jai Kaur Public School in Ashok Vihar, Delhi. Later she enrolled in IGNOU, completing a bachelor’s degree in tourism studies, after which she took up an internship with Oberoi Hotels & Resorts in Jaipur and later worked for ITC Hotel. She was signed by Elite Model Management.
Kapoor debuted on television in the series called Rajuben. She later signed a three film deal with Yash Raj Films. Kapoor was selected through an audition to play in the movie Shuddh Desi Romance. Mohar Basu of Koimoi wrote that Kapoor was "a pleasant debutant though she isn’t an overtly powerful actress" while Madhureeta Mukherjee of The Times Of India thought that she was "impressive, pretty and commands a good screen-presence". Kapoor received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her portrayal of Tara in the film.
French verbs are a part of speech in French grammar. Each verb lexeme has a collection of finite and non-finite forms in its conjugation scheme.
Finite forms depend on grammatical tense and person/number. There are eight simple tense–aspect–mood forms, categorized into the indicative, subjunctive and imperative moods, with the conditional mood sometimes viewed as an additional category. The eight simple forms can also be categorized into four tenses (future, present, past, and future-of-the-past), or into two aspects (perfective and imperfective).
The three non-finite moods are the infinitive, past participle, and present participle.
There are compound constructions that use more than one verb. These include one for each simple tense with the addition of "avoir" or "être" as an auxiliary verb. There is also a construction which is used to distinguish passive voice from active voice.
French verbs are conjugated by isolating the stem of the verb and adding an ending. In the first and second conjugation, the stem is easily identifiable from the infinitive, and remains essentially constant throughout the paradigm. For example, the stem of parler ("speak") is parl- and the stem of finir ("finish") is fin-. In the third group, the relationship between the infinitive form and the stem is less consistent, and several distinct stems are needed to produce all the forms in the paradigm. For example, the verb boire ("drink") has the stems boi-, boiv-, bu-, and buv-.
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Click here to get our FREE App & More Free Lessons at FrenchPod101: https://goo.gl/o0GvcF Learn to introduce yourself in French with our French in Three Minutes series! In France, manners are important, and this step-by-step video teaches you some of the basics you need to be polite while speaking French. A native French teacher will explain the simple phrases necessary. This is the fastest, easiest way to pick up basic French! In this lesson, you'll learn how to introduce yourself in French. If you learned a lot with this video, stop by our French language learning website and get other language learning content including great videos just like this one, audio podcasts, review materials, blogs, iPhone applications, and more. Find out more, go to: http://www.frenchpod101.com/2012/06...
LEARN FRENCH WITH VINCENT / http://www.french4you.net SUPPORT ME IF YOU LIKE MY WORK / http://www.imagiers.net/support-me/ Learn French with your motivated, skilled, relaxed and native French teacher. Learning a language should be fun and I have been trying, for years now, to produce videos that would please you and help you become fluent in French. Watch the video, take some notes if you need...watch it one more time and try to see if you remember the important points of the video. If you have any questions, please contact me through my website http://www.imagiers.net/contact/ SUPPORT AND DONATIONS WELCOME: Support me / http://www.imagiers.net/support Support me on Patreon / http://www.imagiers.net/patreon Support me on PayPal / http://www.imagiers.net/paypal LEARN FRENCH ...
The French language is very sensual, and who better to teach you some phrases en Français than the super sexy Camille Rowe. Directed by Spanish duo Pensacola, our latest Model Mother Tongue episode sees us hop across to the City of Love where la plus mignonne Victoria’s Secret Angel is waiting for her class to assemble. Today’s topics include: dancing, cafe culture and Simone de Beauvoir. Écoutez bien! Directed by PENSACOLA Produced by CANADA with Pensacola Studio Executive Producer Oscar Romagosa Producer Laura Serra Location Producers Sydney Buchan / Kevin Hayden / Anchor Light 1st Assistant Director Aaron David DeFazio Director of Photography Joshua James Richards First Assistant Camera Kali Marril Gaffer Daniel April Grip Seth Dean Sound Recordist Alberto Lean Production Manager David...
Learn French with The Travel Linguist. This is French 101 - Greetings - Level One. Subscribe to our travellinguist channel or visit travellinguist.com to learn more words and phrases in many languages.
Released Date: 09 December 2016 No matter what you say, the secret to sound French, sound sexy. Learn the French language from the Parisian tour guide, Shyra, who knows it all. #BeBefikre Watch Full Movie: ► iTunes - http://apple.co/2j40uTl ► Google Play - http://bit.ly/2jRXs96 Video Credits: Director: Shiv Rawail Director of Photography/Editor: Aman Khan Music: Mikey McCleary from the original score of "Befikre" Concept and Idea: YRF Marketing Enjoy & stay connected with us! ► Subscribe to YRF: http://goo.gl/vyOc8o ► Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/BefikreTheFilm ► Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BefikreTheFilm ► Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/BefikreTheFilm Movie Credits: Written, Produced & Directed by: Aditya Chopra Starring: Ranveer Singh and Vaan...
► Learn a language online with native teachers. Special italki "buy 1 get 1 free" offer for Langfocus viewers: http://go.italki.com/1Ojye8x “How similar are French and Italian?” That's the question I attempt to answer in this video! **This is an updated version of this video which fixes a number of errors in the original video. The original is now unlisted but is still accessible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF6sHB_wTAw Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus Special thanks to: Jamal Alhejaili, Nicholas Shelokov, Sebastian Langshaw, Brandon Gonzalez, Brian Michalowski, Adrian Zhang, Vadim Sobolev, Yixin Alfred Wong, Kaan Ergen, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ulrike Baumann, Ian Martyn, Justin Faist, Jeff Miller, Stephen ...
Learn French with Easy French: In this first episode of Easy French Silia asks people in Paris about what they love about their city :D ► MORE VIDEOS OF EASY FRENCH: https://goo.gl/3P458s ► SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/QgH9jK ► FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/EasyFrenchTony https://www.facebook.com/easylanguagesstreetinterviews ► CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.easy-languages.org ► SUPPORT OUR PROJECT: http://www.easy-languages.org/support-easy-languages/ ► PRODUCED IN COOPERATION WITH: http://www.theglobalexperience.org Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local langu...
I’m sorry Chérine and the people of France. ►Abonnez-vous à ma chaine svp https://goo.gl/IEE7wl Other places you can find me: ►https://www.facebook.com/CasuallyExplained/ ►https://twitter.com/CasuallyE ►https://www.instagram.com/casually_explained/ ►If you'd like to support Casually Explained on Patreon, obviously completely optional!! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3403401
Advanced French class. Free advanced French lesson. Take advanced French lessons live or our self-study course at http://www.language-city.com/our-classes/french/#advanced-french-class-registration. You can also purchase prerecorded lessons with bonus lessons & oral comprehension exercises with answers & explanations. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/languagecity2015/ #freefrenchclasses #frenchlessons #advancedfrenchclass #frenchclasses #frenchclass #frenchlesson
SUPPORT ME IF YOU LIKE MY WORK / http://www.imagiers.net/support-me/ Learn French with your motivated, skilled, relaxed and native French teacher. Learning a language should be fun and I have been trying, for years now, to produce videos that would please you and help you become fluent in French. Watch the video, take some notes if you need...watch it one more time and try to see if you remember the important points of the video. If you have any questions, please contact me through my website http://www.imagiers.net/contact/ SUPPORT AND DONATIONS WELCOME: Support me / http://www.imagiers.net/support Support me on Patreon / http://www.imagiers.net/patreon Support me on PayPal / http://www.imagiers.net/paypal LEARN FRENCH FROM A TO Z Unit 1 / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li...
Click here to get our FREE App & More Free Lessons at FrenchPod101: https://goo.gl/o0GvcF Learn to introduce yourself in French with our French in Three Minutes series! In France, manners are important, and this step-by-step video teaches you some of the basics you need to be polite while speaking French. A native French teacher will explain the simple phrases necessary. This is the fastest, easiest way to pick up basic French! In this lesson, you'll learn how to introduce yourself in French. If you learned a lot with this video, stop by our French language learning website and get other language learning content including great videos just like this one, audio podcasts, review materials, blogs, iPhone applications, and more. Find out more, go to: http://www.frenchpod101.com/2012/06...
LEARN FRENCH WITH VINCENT / http://www.french4you.net SUPPORT ME IF YOU LIKE MY WORK / http://www.imagiers.net/support-me/ Learn French with your motivated, skilled, relaxed and native French teacher. Learning a language should be fun and I have been trying, for years now, to produce videos that would please you and help you become fluent in French. Watch the video, take some notes if you need...watch it one more time and try to see if you remember the important points of the video. If you have any questions, please contact me through my website http://www.imagiers.net/contact/ SUPPORT AND DONATIONS WELCOME: Support me / http://www.imagiers.net/support Support me on Patreon / http://www.imagiers.net/patreon Support me on PayPal / http://www.imagiers.net/paypal LEARN FRENCH ...
The French language is very sensual, and who better to teach you some phrases en Français than the super sexy Camille Rowe. Directed by Spanish duo Pensacola, our latest Model Mother Tongue episode sees us hop across to the City of Love where la plus mignonne Victoria’s Secret Angel is waiting for her class to assemble. Today’s topics include: dancing, cafe culture and Simone de Beauvoir. Écoutez bien! Directed by PENSACOLA Produced by CANADA with Pensacola Studio Executive Producer Oscar Romagosa Producer Laura Serra Location Producers Sydney Buchan / Kevin Hayden / Anchor Light 1st Assistant Director Aaron David DeFazio Director of Photography Joshua James Richards First Assistant Camera Kali Marril Gaffer Daniel April Grip Seth Dean Sound Recordist Alberto Lean Production Manager David...
Learn French with The Travel Linguist. This is French 101 - Greetings - Level One. Subscribe to our travellinguist channel or visit travellinguist.com to learn more words and phrases in many languages.
Released Date: 09 December 2016 No matter what you say, the secret to sound French, sound sexy. Learn the French language from the Parisian tour guide, Shyra, who knows it all. #BeBefikre Watch Full Movie: ► iTunes - http://apple.co/2j40uTl ► Google Play - http://bit.ly/2jRXs96 Video Credits: Director: Shiv Rawail Director of Photography/Editor: Aman Khan Music: Mikey McCleary from the original score of "Befikre" Concept and Idea: YRF Marketing Enjoy & stay connected with us! ► Subscribe to YRF: http://goo.gl/vyOc8o ► Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/BefikreTheFilm ► Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BefikreTheFilm ► Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/BefikreTheFilm Movie Credits: Written, Produced & Directed by: Aditya Chopra Starring: Ranveer Singh and Vaan...
► Learn a language online with native teachers. Special italki "buy 1 get 1 free" offer for Langfocus viewers: http://go.italki.com/1Ojye8x “How similar are French and Italian?” That's the question I attempt to answer in this video! **This is an updated version of this video which fixes a number of errors in the original video. The original is now unlisted but is still accessible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF6sHB_wTAw Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus Special thanks to: Jamal Alhejaili, Nicholas Shelokov, Sebastian Langshaw, Brandon Gonzalez, Brian Michalowski, Adrian Zhang, Vadim Sobolev, Yixin Alfred Wong, Kaan Ergen, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ulrike Baumann, Ian Martyn, Justin Faist, Jeff Miller, Stephen ...
Learn French with Easy French: In this first episode of Easy French Silia asks people in Paris about what they love about their city :D ► MORE VIDEOS OF EASY FRENCH: https://goo.gl/3P458s ► SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/QgH9jK ► FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/EasyFrenchTony https://www.facebook.com/easylanguagesstreetinterviews ► CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.easy-languages.org ► SUPPORT OUR PROJECT: http://www.easy-languages.org/support-easy-languages/ ► PRODUCED IN COOPERATION WITH: http://www.theglobalexperience.org Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local langu...
I’m sorry Chérine and the people of France. ►Abonnez-vous à ma chaine svp https://goo.gl/IEE7wl Other places you can find me: ►https://www.facebook.com/CasuallyExplained/ ►https://twitter.com/CasuallyE ►https://www.instagram.com/casually_explained/ ►If you'd like to support Casually Explained on Patreon, obviously completely optional!! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3403401
Advanced French class. Free advanced French lesson. Take advanced French lessons live or our self-study course at http://www.language-city.com/our-classes/french/#advanced-french-class-registration. You can also purchase prerecorded lessons with bonus lessons & oral comprehension exercises with answers & explanations. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/languagecity2015/ #freefrenchclasses #frenchlessons #advancedfrenchclass #frenchclasses #frenchclass #frenchlesson
SUPPORT ME IF YOU LIKE MY WORK / http://www.imagiers.net/support-me/ Learn French with your motivated, skilled, relaxed and native French teacher. Learning a language should be fun and I have been trying, for years now, to produce videos that would please you and help you become fluent in French. Watch the video, take some notes if you need...watch it one more time and try to see if you remember the important points of the video. If you have any questions, please contact me through my website http://www.imagiers.net/contact/ SUPPORT AND DONATIONS WELCOME: Support me / http://www.imagiers.net/support Support me on Patreon / http://www.imagiers.net/patreon Support me on PayPal / http://www.imagiers.net/paypal LEARN FRENCH FROM A TO Z Unit 1 / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li...