OUI OUIadieu, art déco, bon appétit, carte
blanche, croissant, c'est la vie, cul-de-sac, déjà vu, démodé, femme fatale,
film noir, idée fixe, je ne sais quoi, joie de vivre, matinée, souvenir, toilette,
sauté, fondue, purée, flambée
Parlez-vous Français?
Let us show you why Let us show you why FRENCH is THE FRENCH is THE
LANGUAGE TO LEARN!!!LANGUAGE TO LEARN!!!
REALLY,WHY LEARN FRENCH ?!?
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL !!!FRENCH is also spoken in 43 francophone countries across
5 continents and it is the official language of 33
countries.
ACROSS THE 5 CONTINENTS 600 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE THIS ONE
THING IN COMMON:
Ils parlent français !!!
La langue de l’amour !!!
• Over 30% of English words Over 30% of English words come from French.come from French.
• English grammatical English grammatical structure is similar to French structure is similar to French structure. structure.
• Over 20,000 French words Over 20,000 French words mean the same in English and mean the same in English and Spanish.Spanish.
Can you guess the meaning of the Can you guess the meaning of the words in red??words in red??
L’Europe du 20e siècle a été profondément marquée par les guerres, des guerres mondiales et coloniales qui ont fait des millions de morts et dont les répercussions économiques, politiques et psychologiques ont pris des proportions gigantesques. Quel est le sens de la vie au milieu de tant de destruction ? Qu’est-ce qu’une civilisation qui porte dans ses découvertes atomiques les graines de son propre anéantissement ? Dans un âge où la science et la technologie remettent constamment en question les valeurs humaines, les artistes et les écrivains explorent sans cesse de nouvelles dimensions.
Most graduate schools require
knowledge of at least one
foreign language,
and French remains the
most commonly
used language
after English.
French is the 2nd
most important
language on the Internet,
based on WWW pages,
number of discussion lists, and number of countries connected
to the Internet.
OF COURSE YOU CAN !!!French, along with English, is the official working language of many
world organizations such as:
• the United Nations• UNESCO• International Labor
Bureau• International
Olympic Committee
• NATO• the European
Community• the Universal Postal
Union• the International Red
Cross• Union of International
Associations (UIA)
France has the fourth France has the fourth largest economy in largest economy in the world after the the world after the
U.S., Japan and U.S., Japan and Germany.Germany.
France is first in the world in trains and
production of luxury goods; second in the world in commercial aircraft production,
defense production and export of agricultural
products; third in rocketry and electronics
equipment; fourth in automobiles.