MyFrenchLife™ member survey results: Why learn French?
Learning French can be an arduous and challenging process - so why do we do it...?
Learning French can be an arduous and challenging process - so why do we do it...?
Why does France rank so poorly for English language proficiency? Is linguistic inadequacy merely a cultural excuse?
Speaking a foreign language has so many benefits, but here are nine unexpected reasons why learning French is the best idea ever.
Perhaps the most valuable lesson is the one learnt outside the classroom: that learning French is anything but boring, and should never be dull.
Learning a language forces you out of your comfort zone and while this will broaden your horizons, it can also be cripplingly embarrassing.
We’ve all had those disconcerting moments – you’re chatting casually in French when you’re stopped cold by a phrase that sounds so bizarre that you wonder if you’re actually dreaming. No, it was (usually) just an idiom.
French slang can be terrifying: we spend years trying to perfect our grammar, master the most intelligent vocab, and sound sophisticated, and suddenly all of that’s thrown up in the air when we encounter a French person speaking in slang.
From group classes to solitary study, there are a multitude of ways to learn French. And they’re a lot more exciting, interesting and stimulating than anything you’ll remember from school.
World renowned as a language of beauty and prestige, French is starting to see criticism for its outdated and controversial characteristics. Is it time to modernise the French language?
Of course, it is lovely to chat with the locals in the boulangerie without freezing up, but with Mandarin as the most-spoken language, and Spanish close behind, French just can’t seem to compete as a global language.