"Quelques faits intéressants sur le français" has been shared to the blog from the French reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your French listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the French listening practice section.
Take a break from learning French to learn some interesting facts about French.
After listening to the audio, scroll down for the bilingual reader, where you can click any French phrase for the English translation and related grammar lessons.
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Interesting article- and nice to have the translation available. More please!
From the little I've learned (?) there were a lot of local languages in France that ultimately contributed to modern day French. Provençal comes to mind.
I'd love to know more about the history of the French language- from experts such as yourselves.
M
Merci pour l'article.
Si je comprends correctement, il y avait pas exactement "français" autrefois. Il y avait "langue d'oïl" et "langue d'oc" (Occitan) et Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) parmi d'autres. Est-il vrai que "français" comme nous le savons maintenant était de Paris?
(Pardonnez-vous mon français, s'il vous plait. Merci!)
Oui, c'est vrai - je vais en parler dans la suite de cet article : https://french.kwiziq.com/blog/naissance-langue-francaise/
Norman French was spoken exclusively in England from 1066 to the 13th C?? Well, I suppose the anglo-saxon /middle English speaking majority was excluded in more ways than one...
This was an excellent free learning and practicing exercise, hopefully to be repeated at reasonably regular intervals, many thanks
Merci beaucoup madame, for your excellent teaching.
Au revoir à bientôt
Sincerely yours
Fernando.
