"Le français moderne" 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. This article also has audio for you to practice your French listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the French listening exercises section.
Learn about Modern French in this 5-part series of bilingual articles about the development of French over the centuries.*
After listening to the audio, click any word for the English translation and links to related grammar lessons.
Note: The tenses in this French article and its English translation don’t match! In French, we use the present tense to describe historical stories like this to evoke a sense of immediacy, whereas in English, we commonly use the past tense – learn more about historical French tenses.
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Part 2:
- What's this?
*The Development of French
- Birth of the French language
- Dialects and regional languages
- Middle French
- *Classical French
- Modern French
** The Status of French in the World