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FluentU brings native French videos with reach. With interactive captions, you can tap on any word to see an image, definition and useful examples. A diaeresis on y only occurs in some proper names and in modern editions of old French texts. Some proper names in which ÿ appears include Aÿ (a commune in Marne, formerly Aÿ-Champagne), Rue des Cloÿs (an alley in Paris), Croÿ (family name and hotel on the Boulevard Raspail, Paris), Château du Faÿ [ fr] (near Pontoise), Ghÿs (name of Flemish origin spelt Ghijs where ij in handwriting looked like ÿ to French clerks), L'Haÿ-les-Roses (commune near Paris), Pierre Louÿs (author), Moÿ-de-l'Aisne (commune in Aisne and a family name), and Le Blanc de Nicolaÿ (an insurance company in eastern France). French is the official language of both French Guiana on the South American continent, [75] and of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, [76] an archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland in North America. Greece joins international Francophone body". EURACTIV.com. 29 November 2004. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017 . Retrieved 11 July 2017. Although there are many French regional accents, foreign learners normally use only one variety of the language.

In which countries of the world is this language spoken..." Archived from the original on 16 November 2017 . Retrieved 21 November 2017. a b Institut Statistique de Polynésie Française (ISPF). "Recensement 2017 – Données détaillées Langues". Archived from the original on 7 April 2019 . Retrieved 7 April 2019. In the past, weight loss journeys have been a very private and emotional process. In this context, Dawn French’s weight loss journey is a refreshing change.

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a b c Laurence Hélix (2011). Histoire de la langue française. Ellipses Edition Marketing S.A. p.7. ISBN 978-2-7298-6470-5.

Dawn continued her journey in 2016 and lost an incredible 13kg in one year and today (2019) she has lost over 100kg in total! Her body transformation truly is something to be admired. a b Adams, J. N. (2007). "Chapter V – Regionalisms in provincial texts: Gaul". The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC – AD 600. Cambridge. pp.279–289. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511482977. ISBN 978-0-511-48297-7. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) In 2015, approximately 40% of the francophone population (including L2 and partial speakers) lived in Europe, 36% in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean, 15% in North Africa and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas, and 1% in Asia and Oceania. [7] French is the second-most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. [8] Of Europeans who speak other languages natively, approximately one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language. [9] French is the second-most taught foreign language in the EU. All institutions of the EU use French as a working language along with English and German; in certain institutions, French is the sole working language (e.g. at the Court of Justice of the European Union). [10] French is also the 16th most natively spoken language in the world, fifth most spoken language by total number of speakers and is on the top five of the most studied languages worldwide (with about 120 million learners as of 2017). [11] As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, French was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Most second-language speakers reside in Francophone Africa, particularly Gabon, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritius, Senegal and Ivory Coast. [12]How many people speak French and where is French spoken". Archived from the original on 21 November 2017 . Retrieved 21 November 2017. During the Grand Siècle (17th century), France, under the rule of powerful leaders such as Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV, enjoyed a period of prosperity and prominence among European nations. Richelieu established the Académie française to protect the French language. By the early 1800s, Parisian French had become the primary language of the aristocracy in France.

French has three pairs of homorganic fricatives distinguished by voicing, i.e., labiodental /f/~/v/, dental /s/~/z/, and palato-alveolar /ʃ/~/ʒ/. /s/~/z/ are dental, like the plosives /t/~/d/ and the nasal /n/. The world's languages, in 7 maps and charts". The Washington Post. 18 April 2022 . Retrieved 19 April 2022. You’re probably noticing a pattern. There’s no getting around it, ça is a word that comes up over and over in French conversation. Trying to talk without it is like trying to prepare a three-course meal without a knife. The organisation said: "There are many different types of arthritis, affecting over 10 million people in the UK – that’s one in six of us.

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Caffarel, Alice; Martin, J.R.; Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M. Language Typology: A Functional Perspective. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.