French For Beginners: The Best Handbook For Learning To Speak French!
French
is considered as one of the languages that is widely learned all over
the world. There is a high likelihood that you are already familiar with
some French phrases and words. Because of the French invasion in
England during the eleventh century, the French language has given
significant contributions to the English vocabulary. This means that
even if you are not actively learning French but is adept in English,
you are already using a lot of French words without you knowing.
Because
of hundreds of years of interaction with the British and because of
common ancient forefathers, French has offered English-speakers a fairly
easy path to conversing using a different language. French and English
share several similarities in sentence construction. You may even
realize that a lot of French and English words have similar sounds. The
limited French sounds may still be familiar to you because of movies and
TV shows.
Some of these unique French sounds include the
silent “h” and the gruff “r” sound; but this does not completely mean
that everything you watch and hear on TV is totally accurate. Still,
being able to adopt the French accent you have acquired from watching
movies can help you a lot while learning the language.
Even
if French is remotely related to the English language, it is more
generally compared to other Romance languages such us Spanish and
Italian. All these three languages were created from the Latin language
used by the Romans during their invasions in 1 B.C.; but despite their
common origin, the evolution of the French language is different from
the evolution of Italian and Spanish (which still share a lot of
similarities even up to today).
Currently, there are around
thirty countries who name French as one of their official languages. In
Canada, French is commonly used in the Quebec region only. While in
Belgium, French is used in the Southern area only. The spread of the
French language can be partly explained by the colonization of several
nations in the Pacific, Africa and the Caribbean by France. On top of
that, the French language was actually used as the official language for
international diplomacy until the initial years of the twentieth
century when the English language took over.
- The French Language
- Pronunciation
- Tools for Building Phrases
- Basic Vocabulary Words and Phrases
- Socializing in French
- Much, much more!
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