Group 1 JeanneMarie Maxime Guillemette Ins Lets compare
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Group 1 Jeanne-Marie, Maxime, Guillemette, Inès
Let’s compare languages English and French !
Where do we speak French as a first language ? Belgium - Benin - Canada (New Brunswick, Nunavut, Quebec, Ontario, Northwest Territories, Yukon) - Burkina Faso - Burundi Cameroon - Central Africa - Comoros - Congo Brazzaville - Congo - Kinshasa (DRC) - Côte d'Ivoire - Djibouti - Gabon - Guinea - Haiti Luxembourg - India (Pondicherry) - Italy (Aosta Valley) - Madagascar - Mali - Mauritius Monaco - Niger - Switzerland - Senegal - Chad - Togo - Rwanda - Vanuatu
South Africa, Antigua andspeak Barbuda, English Australia, Bahamas, Where do we as a Barbados, Belize, first Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, language ? Dominica, United States, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Solomon Islands list of countries Here is the complete India, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, where English is the main Namibia, language or Liberia, Malawi, Malta, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Uganda, Pakistan, Palau, official language of the country. Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, United Kingdom, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe
There are more Englishspeaking countries than French-speaking countries.
DOM-TOM The Comoros - Congo-Brazzaville - Congo-Kinshasa (DRC) Ivory Coast - Djibouti - Gabon - Guinea - Haiti - Luxembourg Guadeloupe - Guyana - Martinique - Meeting - Mayotte - India (Pondichéry) (Valley-in Aoste) - Madagascar - Mali French Polynesia- Italy - Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon - Wallis-and Maurice - Monaco - -Futuna Niger - Switzerland - Senegal - Chad - Togo - New Caledonia Rwanda - Vanuatu Other Belgium - Benign - Canada (New Brunswick, Nunavut, Quebec, Ontario, Territories of the North-West, Yukon) Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cameroun - Central Africa -
There around 100 000 words in the French dictionary
French words used in English In English, there can be words of French origin as: adieu, amour-propre, aperitif, cul-de-sac, savoir faire, pied-à-terre, rendezvous, sang-froid, savoirvivre, souvenir, tête-à-tête
10 transparent words There also transparent words in English : Agriculture, album, automobile, college, continent, culture, different, emotion, excellent, extreme. . .
French comes from… The origins of the French are Latin and. Greek and a little the Gallic. A few words come from English.
Here are some proverbs in French and their translation in English. v. Tout est bien qui finit bien. ØAll is well that ends well. v. C'est mon petit doigt qui me l'a dit. ØA little bird told me. v. On creuse sa tombe avec ses dents. ØYou dig your grave with your teeth.