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2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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   The French equivalent to the English meaning is "fard à joues"; 2) in Canadian football, a rouge is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return or kick the ball out of its end zone. séance

3. List of international organisations which have French as an ...

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   French name Headquarters Note Francophonie: 1 Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie Paris, France The community of French-speaking nations AU: 5 (Languages of the AU) Union africaine Addis Ababa, Ethiopia French is an official language in 21 member states and a commonly used language in four others. Amnesty International

4. French language in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States.Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at home in the federal 2020 American Community Survey, [1] making French the seventh most spoken language in the country behind English, Spanish (of which it is the second Romance language to be spoken after the latter), Chinese, Tagalog ...

5. List of countries and territories where French is an official ...

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   French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English , with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [ 1 ]

6. Français langue étrangère - Wikipedia

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   Certified since 2007 under the "Qualité FLE" label, the Alliances Françaises in French-speaking and non-French-speaking countries are key players in teaching French as a Foreign Language. With over 9,000 students from 160 nationalities annually, the Alliance Française Paris Île-de-France is the largest French language school in France. [ 1 ]

7. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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   A number of terms that in other French-speaking regions are exclusively nautical are used in wider contexts in Quebec. This is often attributed to the original arrival of French immigrants by ship, and to the dominance of the Saint Lawrence River as the principal means of transport among the major settlements of the region in the past centuries.

8. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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   Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 million 199 million 1.140 billion Hindi (excl ...

9. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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   Meanwhile, expressions such as femme fatale, faux pas, haute couture, bête noire and enfant terrible are still recognisably French. Borrowing is not a one-way process (See Reborrowing). Some words of French origin ultimately come from Old English (Anglo-Saxon words): e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, or Middle English: e.g. lingot.