“French is just fine because it’s spoken on every continent, which is rare for a language,” says Christophe Benzitoun, a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Lorraine. “There are several ...

Concentrating in a foreign literature opens the mind, the imagination, the sensibility to the fullness of life's possibilities. It furthers the potential for wider linguistic expression and teaches us ...

If you speak French, you can communicate with people from around the world. It’s an official language in 29 countries in Europe, Africa, North America and the Caribbean. That’s the second highest ...

A recent study explores how Japanese learners of French produce ambiguous speech errors. Using a specialized assessment tool, ...

The ongoing battle to make the French language kinder to women – or at least take better account of their existence in French society – lost some ground this week as France's education ministry came ...

Long before English became the lingua franca in Europe, another language was already making its mark on the German-speaking world. France was long revered as the cultural, educational and diplomatic ...