Oc and Oil! that sounds Scottish. Those funny dots over the i. It's hard enough coping with accents.
"Comment est née la langue française ?" has been shared to the blog from the French reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.
Where did the French language come from? Get the short answer in this cute animated video for children. For more detail, take a look at our 5-part series.*
- What's this?
*The Development of French
- Birth of the French language
- Dialects and regional languages
- Middle French
- Classical French
- Modern French
Author info
Laura is a French expert and Kwiziq's Head of Quality Control. Online educator since '99, Laura is passionate about language, travel, and cooking. She's American by birth and a permanent ex-pat by choice - freelancing made it possible for her to travel extensively and live in several countries before settling permanently in Guadeloupe. Laura is the author of Lawless French, Lawless Spanish, and other websites and books on French, Spanish, Italian, English, and vegetarianism. She spends most of her spare time reading, playing with food, and enjoying water sports.
Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!
Comments: 3
Where do the city names like Aix en Provence and Reims, among others, that don't seem French come from?
It depends on the city. Aix is ultimately from Latin, Reims is named after a Gaulish-speaking tribe. Wikipedia usually has good info about this.