5 facts that inspire you to learn French Language at the top of your bucket list
Are you clinging to the idea of learning the French language and wondering how useful it’s going to be? The idea of this blog is to discover how renowned the French language is and how should it matter to you. 5 reasons why learning the French language should be on your bucket list.
1. The insight of French Language
French has secured the status as one of the pioneer international languages in the world. If we calculate the presence of the French language then will find that it is available on five continents of the world. Also, it is an official language of 29 countries with more than 275 million native speakers which soon will rise to 700 million speakers.
Now if you are one of the people carrying the myth that the French language is vanishing and there is no advantage of learning this language when considering the above data will clear that it is in no danger of escaping from the competition.
2. The French Language is Rising Rapidly
In the global business landscape, Africa has quietly has emerged as one of the promising underdogs. As per an article in USA Today, French is on the rise. French-speaking populations are growing faster than English and Mandarin speaking ones. French has arrived as a colonial language in Africa and is now the large part of Francophone with estimated of 100 million speakers at present, a majority of which have acquired the taste for French post new business entrants. Moreover, in Africa, French is the official schooling language of countries with increasingly high fertility rates.
3. Global Love for French
The love for French is very much alive across the globe and staggering statistic by Duolingo testify this. After English, French is the second most widely learned language in the world. Even today, French is studied in 77 out of 194 countries. Besides, it is the third most used language on the internet.
4.Recruiters Love it
If your resume says, fluency in a second foreign language, then your chances of getting hired increases. In fact, if you are a professional degree holder like Doctor, Engineer, IT specialist, then it opens up your growth avenues for international exposure. Nowadays companies are jumping into the international market and want to globalize their business. Therefore these companies prefer multilingual specialist as this asset of yours can be used to communicate well with clients.
5. It’s All Connected
Most of you may know or may not know that the French language has influenced the English language from vocabulary to grammar. About one-third of English words are derived directly or indirectly from the French language. And it’s estimated that English speaker who has never studied French still knows 15000 French words. Even English pronunciation owes a lot to French. Whereas Old English had the unvoiced fricative sound, French influence helped to distinguish their voiced counterparts. Another fact is, there are thousands of French words and expressions the English language has adopted. List of few French origin words and expressions which are commonly used in English: je ne sais quoi, c’est la vie, adieu, bon-voyage, déjà vu, à propos, après-ski, attaché and lot more.
I hope this blog helped you in taking the decision.
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