Anyone who has tried to learn French will appreciate this selection of comical videos that take the mick out of Anglo attempts to pick up the sophisticated language of Molière. However, we are not recommending you follow any of the examples set by the people in these clips.
A Briton was formally admitted on Thursday into the Académie France's top body charged with preserving the purity of the Gallic tongue. Sir Michael Edwards' election to the Académie was jokingly described by a fellow immortal as "an earthquake, a revolution".
In its annual report released this week French TV and radio regulators revealed that French language and culture regularly suffers as the sector expands and that viewers’ main cause for complaint is the unnecessary use of English.
The famous guardians of the French language, the Académie Française, elected its first ever Canadian to join its "immortals" on Thursday. It follows the nomination of a British academic earlier this year. A French teen was also in the running, but missed out.
In what has been described as a “very rare” event, a 15-year-old boy is in the running for a seat at the prestigious Académie Française. On Thursday the institution is set to decide on who will fill the coveted place among France's fabled "Immortals."
Leaders of France’s TV and radio industry met this week to come up with a strategy to boost the French resistance against the invasion of English. The Local went along to find out how the battle lines are being drawn.
France may be its nearest neighbour, but for the UK the most important language for the future is not French, according to a new report by the British Council this week, that highlighted the ongoing inability of most Britons to master a foreign language.
French is a difficult language for us expats to learn and if the grammar rules, false friends and tongue-twisting pronunciations weren't taxing enough, things are complicated further by a number of words and expressions that are 'untranslatable'. Here are ten to look out for, along with our interpretations.
