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	French language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The earliest extant text in French is the Oaths of Strasbourg from 842; Old French became a literary language with the chansons de geste that told tales of the paladins of Charlemagne and the heroes of the Crusades.
		French is an official language of New Brunswick, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
		French has been the only official language of Quebec since 1974, although it is commonly (and incorrectly) believed that the designation of French as the sole official language occurred in 1977 with the adoption of the Charter of the French Language (which is popularly referred to as Bill 101).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_language (3698 words)

	Haverford College
		Course offerings are intended to serve both those with particular interest in French literature, literary theory and criticism, as well as those with particular interest in French and French-speaking lands from the perspective of history, culture, and political science.
		The purpose of the major in French is to lay the foundation for an understanding and appreciation of French and Francophone cultures through the study of literature and language.
		A thorough knowledge of French is a common goal for both orientations, and texts and discussion in French are central both to the program focusing on French history and culture (interdisciplinary concentration) and to the literary specialization (literature concentration).
	www.haverford.edu /catalog/french.htm (2485 words)

	French Speaking Countries
		French is either an official language or is spoken by a significant portion of the population in the following countries.
	www.aneki.com /french.html (74 words)

	A tour of Asia's French-speaking countries
		This enthusiasm for the French language and culture is due notably to the pro-French attitude of the country's elite, influenced by that of the royal family, and also by the strong cultural image of the French lifestyle, an image of France that is popular among young people.
		French is therefore a language that is still widely studied, despite the competition from English and the Asian languages.
		French is also taught in state schools specialising in tourism and in hotel and catering.
	www.france.diplomatie.fr /label_france/ENGLISH/DOSSIER/asie/tour.html (2219 words)

	French Speaking Countries
		You have joined a French club and the club has deceided to go on a two week vacation to a French speaking country.
		You are a travel agent and need to design a brochure for a French speaking country.
		A listing of all French speaking countries and their sites.
	www.ezwebsite.org /Page.asp?PID=910 (314 words)

	FrenchQuarter.com: The Essential Guide to New Orleans' Oldest Neighborhood
		In the French Quarter everything is different and everything is the same.
		The French Quarter, the historic heart of the city, suffered wind and rain damage but no significant flooding.
		Photos of the French Quarter: After the Storm
	www.frenchquarter.com (424 words)

	France HQ : French Speaking Countries
		Cursillo Movement worldwide and the "French speaking Cursillo...
		Residential intensive French language tuition for individuals and small groupsin a beautiful old country house in the Western Loire.
		French and Spanishlanguage classes, workshops in arts and crafts, nutrition and culture, sports,...
	francehq.com /frenchspeakingcountries/index.php (813 words)

	French Study Abroad - French Major - Hollins University
		Hollins graduates in French are able to express themselves articulately in oral and written French, have strong analytical skills, understand and appreciate cultures and values of the French-speaking world.
		The French major at Hollins strives to give you a strong foundation in all aspects of French language and culture.
		At the beginning level, we place emphasis on oral comprehension and speaking skills to prepare you for subsequent immersion in the language and culture.
	www.hollins.edu /undergrad/french/french.htm (501 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:FRN
		An estimated 20% of the population speak French in their daily lives, and up to 65% of the population can read and converse in French.
		French is only spoken by about 11% of the population of Channel Islands, mainly older people.
		There is a variety on the northwest end of St. Barthélemy, west of but not including Gustavia, similar to Cajun French of the USA, which may or may not be a French dialect (Julianne Maher 1997).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=FRN (471 words)

	French Music Singers Artists Francophiles Emma Goldberg Martial MAREY Bernard PIALAT
		French Speaking Artists: This page is sponsored by a netwwork of French speaking expatriates to introduce visitors to French-speaking artists and musicians.
		Selection of French-speaking artists from French expatriates (Corse, Provence) in Alabama and Florida USA using people-to-people relationships on the web since 1995.
		In most of the US we can only listen and see English speaking artists, simply because it is easier to market and not because they are better.
	contactez.net /frenchsingermusic.html (1472 words)

	French in Wisconsin
		This is a virtual monument to honor the memory and continued presence of French speaking people from many nations who, over the last 350 years, have helped make Wisconsin and the midwest United States what they are today.
		Coincidental to the celebration of Wisconsin's 150th anniversary of statehood to take place statewide in 1998, the Wisconsin's French Connections Project seeks to involve as many people as possible who have an interest in gathering and sharing information on this important part of Wisconsin's history.
		Today, from one end of Wisconsin to the other French sounding names remain as reminders of the people who passed through, and frequently remained.
	www.uwgb.edu /wisfrench (184 words)

	Amazon.com: Jolie French Speaking Doll: Imaginarium.com
		Jolie is full of French flair in her fuchsia satin miniskirt, black-and-white striped shirt, and black velvet beret and matching velvet shoes.
		If the phrases of the French doll aspiring to design clothes bothers you, why not check out the Italian doll who wants to be a soccer star, the Greek doll who has Olympic dreams or the German doll who expresses her love of animals.
		While this doll is by no means a substitute for a year of college French, it is a great catalyst to get your young child interested in foreign language.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005J3NH/ref=nosim/wannalearncom (1027 words)

	ipedia.com: French Community of Belgium Article
		The French Community of Belgium (French: Communauté française de Belgique) is one of the three official communities in Belgium along with the Flemish Community and the German speaking Community.
		The French Community of Belgium is one of the three official communities in Belgium along with the Flemish Community and the German speaking Community.
		Although its name could suggest that it is a community of French citizens in Belgium, it is not: the French Community of Belgium should have been correctly called French speaking Community of Belgium.
	www.ipedia.com /french_community_of_belgium.html (178 words)

	France demands French-speaking imams - (United Press International)
		Dalil Boubakeur, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith said he was confident a new generation of imams being trained in France would be open to modernity and secularism.
		Three-quarters of France's 1,200 imams are not French, and a third do not speak French, he said.
		France has expelled several imams this year, for preaching contrary to French law or for posing a security threat by supporting fundamentalist forms of Islam.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20041208-073559-4203r.htm (212 words)

	New York City Francophone
		French Embassy in the U.S. Cultural Services of the French Embassy: 972 5th Avenue, 10021 (212-439-1400); Consulat Général de France-NY, 934 5th Avenue (212-606-3680 / 606-3600).
		French and European Publications (Librairie de France): Rockefeller Center, 610 5th Ave.
		French Institute/Alliance Française (FI/AF); 22 E 60th St. (Madison), Tél: 212-355-6100, Bibliothèque, cinéma, concerts, conférences, cours de langue, théâtre et cetera.
	www.lehman.cuny.edu /depts/langlit/french/nycfranc.html (918 words)

	French
		While 30% of French citizens speak English, according to a recent Eurobarometer study, speaking a language is quite different from surfing in it.
		French car manufacturer Peugeot- Citroen recently announced that it is considering joining Internet portals set up by the global car industry for the purchase of raw materials, parts, and so on.
		French consumers, like their US counterparts, seem to be hooked on online auctions.
	glreach.com /gbc/fr/french.php3 (1462 words)

	Resources for Learning French
		The course starts in French from the first instant, and is built around a story that involves the kinds of day to day activities that are often neglected in literary-oriented language courses.
		In learning French, I found that the most difficult words to master were what I came to call "linguistic glue," the adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions that link verbs and nouns into complete sentences.
		I've found that keeping this card at hand while reading French documents saves an enormous amount of time compared to flipping through a dictionary, and is an excellent way to commit these words and their usage to memory.
	www.fourmilab.ch /francais/lfrench.html (4604 words)

	French bashing occurring even in French-speaking Louisiana
		French bashing is cropping up even in the land of French-speaking Creole and Cajun cultures.
		The head of a group that promotes the French language in Louisiana says two teachers who were talking in French in a restaurant were approached by a waiter who voiced disapproval.
		There are calls in Louisiana to take back an invitation to French President Jacques Chirac (zhahk shih-RAHK'), due to his anti-war stance.
	www.fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2003/032003/03282003/1048880555 (202 words)

	The Kerry Spot on National Review Online
		By speaking French on the stump, of course.
		The use of French in public life excluded the Creole-speaking majority from politics, government, and intellectual life.
		My knowledge of French is limited to the lyrics to "Lady Marmalade," so I consulted my friend John Wilkerson, a Washington journalist and French speaker.
	www.nationalreview.com /kerry/kerry200410190918.asp (445 words)

	CNN - Vietnam opens summit of French-speaking nations - November 14, 1997
		Among the leaders speaking at the summit was French President Jacques Chirac, who praised Vietnam's hosting of the summit.
		In fact, less than 1 percent of Vietnam's 77 million people speak French with any degree of proficiency, and most people in that tiny percentage are older Vietnamese who remember French colonial rule.
		The French, who colonized Vietnam in 1884, lost to Vietnam on the military battlefield decades later, leading to French Indochina's breakup in 1954.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9711/14/vietnam.francophone (599 words)

	languages
		The unit is an extension of a family theme for French 2 and/or 3, for both individual and groups of four students and for block scheduling equalling a three-day lesson.
		The objective of this lesson is for students to correctly use the French language using weather related vocabulary, numbers, and days of the week.
		Spanish, French (and French Canadian), German (and Swiss German), Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese (Romanji), Indonesian, and Thai language pronunciations are listed.
	www.kenton.k12.ky.us /tr/lang/french.html (1625 words)

	French Speaking Countries WebQuest
		After meeting with the representatives from all French speaking countries of the world you must chose a country.
		Your school's foreign language department has been offered a grant to send you and your classmates to the French speaking country of your choice for a semester.
		Each of you are now experts in French Speaking countries.
	cte.jhu.edu /techacademy/fellows/hintz/webquest2/sdhindex.html (434 words)

	Language Centre - Language learning links
		A bibliographical database of literature of French speaking Sub-Saharan Africa containing more than 6,500 references to fiction of all genres, poems, drama, essays, biography and autobiography, myths and legends children’s literature and BD.
		French Links An extensive, very useful list of French WWW sites by Robert Peckham at the University of Tennessee.
		There is a French focus, since the project originated in France.
	www.lang.ox.ac.uk /langlinks/indivlangs/french.html (1593 words)

	Promotion of French
		25% of Canada's population is native French speaking, and 5.2% of Canadians are native French speaking people who don't live in Québec.
		There are 18 African countries where French is the official language, one where it is one of two official languages, and then there are the three countries of the Maghreb, where, for solid political reasons, Arabic alone is the official language, but where French has a powerful presence.
		French speakers worldwide enhance their sense of linguistic community through the organizations of "la francophonie", which now has its own secretary general.
	www.utm.edu /%7Eglobeg/profren.shtml (2876 words)

	French Web LInks
		Be sure to visit and contribute to this award-winning site in commemoration of the French and Francophone presence in the state of Wisconsin.
		Musée de la Nouvelle-France Learn about the history of the French in North America.
		ARTFL French Language Project at University of Chicago
	www.uwgb.edu /modlang/french/frlinks.htm (438 words)

	French-Speaking Countries
		There are more than 50 countries and territories in which French is widely spoken:
	www.kusd.edu /schools/lance/foreign_lang/know_fr2.html (14 words)

	Bienvenue au Monde Français! (Links to Sites About France and Things French)
		I stayed in Montpellier, in the South of France, in the home of a delightful family whose daughter, Valérie, became one of our French 'daughters' through the Nacel cultural exchange program during July of 1994 and 1995.
		Although I am no longer a French teacher in a public school, my love for the language, history and culture of France has not diminished in the least.
		When I went to college, I first completed my required foreign language units in French; I then selected my electives in French...finally, when I had no electives remaining, I changed my major to French rather than give it up.
	www.angelfire.com /sc/mudpie/french/main.html (709 words)

	Trips to French-Speaking Sites
		French Recipes in French: choose from hundreds of French recipes in all categories to plan a special French regional dinner.
		French Higher Education: excellent backround information in English on universities and post-High school institutions in France.
		Les Institutions the menu on this French-language site from the French Government includes les Présidents de la Ve République, les Symboles de la République the symbols are useful for all levels of language study.
	www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us /htm/Units/Upper/modlang/putnam/french/tripfr.htm (2063 words)

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