http://www.learnfrencheasy.net/easy-to-learn-french Learn French Quickly with Audio CDs, MP3 and French Learning Software Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:49:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.learnfrencheasy.net/easy-to-learn-french/comment-page-1#comment-10 Learn French for Beginners Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:12:50 +0000 http://www.learnfrencheasy.net/?p=30#comment-10 [...] The French language, considered by some to be the most romantic in the world, is currently spoken by approximately 350 million people world wide, as a first or second language. The language which finds its origins in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxemburg today is the official language of 31 different countries and is spoken informally in many more. Native French speakers can be found all over the world, from Europe to Africa and even parts of America and Canada. It is one of the main Romance Languages, meaning that it developed from Rome, and therefore shares many of its characteristics with other Romance languages, such as Spanish and Italian, for example all nouns are either masculine or feminine. There are undeniably some similarities between the French and English languages however, which may be surprising considering that English is a Germanic language. After the invasion of France by Germanic Western Europe in the third century AD, some of the invaders settled in Gaul (now Brittany). Inevitably some of their Germanic language was interjected into the French of the time, and so today there are certain French words which are reminiscent of their English equivalents. It is still hotly contested however, whether the English words influenced the French, or vice versa. [...] [...] The French language, considered by some to be the most romantic in the world, is currently spoken by approximately 350 million people world wide, as a first or second language. The language which finds its origins in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxemburg today is the official language of 31 different countries and is spoken informally in many more. Native French speakers can be found all over the world, from Europe to Africa and even parts of America and Canada. It is one of the main Romance Languages, meaning that it developed from Rome, and therefore shares many of its characteristics with other Romance languages, such as Spanish and Italian, for example all nouns are either masculine or feminine. There are undeniably some similarities between the French and English languages however, which may be surprising considering that English is a Germanic language. After the invasion of France by Germanic Western Europe in the third century AD, some of the invaders settled in Gaul (now Brittany). Inevitably some of their Germanic language was interjected into the French of the time, and so today there are certain French words which are reminiscent of their English equivalents. It is still hotly contested however, whether the English words influenced the French, or vice versa. [...]

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