Although French is officially my first language it’s fair to say that with a father who couldn’t speak English and a mother who couldn’t speak French, I grew up functionally bilingual.

The English and French languages share over 1,700 identical words – often with similar or exact meanings. In fact, up to 45% of English words have French origins, largely due to the Norman ...

More and more French adverts use English words or phrases in a blending of languages that might strike an English-speaker as strange or odd. In reality, this is part of a wider - sometimes ...

No surrender, no peace. Eight years ago, the French marked a hugely important cultural milestone in celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Academie Francaise, whose 40 distinguished members act as ...

That is because English has taken the word for “underwear” and applied it exclusively to fancy and high-end undergarments because, you know, anything French is luxury.

Werber brings his words to life on Korean stage French novelist joins Sejong Soloists in a hybrid performance of storytelling ...

Words are made up of phonemes - which are units of sound. In French, some phonemes are different to English ones. Learn how to pronounce some sounds in French with this guide aimed at children ...

20 English Words the French Secretly Love (and Use All the Time)Story by Luca von Burkersroda • 2w 1 / 20 ©wikimedia ...

Both the book's French version and previously published English version will together help overseas readers better grasp the theoretical and practical context of Chinese modernization.

Quebec’s ‘Language Police’ Take Aim at Sneaky English Slang Authorities fret over ‘Franglais,’ the creep of words like ‘cool’ or ‘email’ into French discourse; even elevator ...

Of course, it's impossible to provide an exact number of words in English, since new words are being added to the dictionary, and falling out of use, pretty much constantly. But what's an ...

A government panel in South Korea is charged with coming up with Korean equivalents for foreign terms that keep slipping into the language. Among the challenges: Finding ways to say things like ...