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Laura K Lawless

Laura is a French expert and KwizIQ editor. Online educator since '99 and published author, 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 creator of Lawless French, Lawless Spanish, and several 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 Drouard

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: 8

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

Great idea, merci !

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/

BC

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 pour votre feedback Micon, et bonne journée !

Merci beaucoup madame, for your excellent teaching.
Au revoir à bientôt
Sincerely yours
Fernando.