A French teacher in western France instructs pupils about the French national anthem 'La Marseillaise'. (Photo by XAVIER LEOTY / AFP) This French government website - which is available in English - ...

“French is just fine because it’s spoken on every continent, which is rare for a language,” says Christophe Benzitoun, a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Lorraine. “There are several ...

The rate of French language use has fallen in Quebec and almost all of Canada. The Canadian government’s latest figures, published Wednesday, show that the proportion of Canadians who predominantly ...

Correction: An earlier edition of this story incorrectly spelled the name of a former French colony, and listed a country that is not in Africa. The French are a proud bunch, especially when it comes ...

Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...

The volume of English-language films emerging out of France is increasing, reports Elisabeth Lequeret, as a handful of local players ramp up their international ambitions English is no longer a ...

EMMANUEL Macron's hopes of turning French into the language of the European Union are doomed to fail, with English certain to remain the bloc's lingua franca for the foreseeable future, a former Irish ...