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While that might look like a typically English sentence to you, four of the key words are pilfered from the French language. Now there's nothing wrong with that especially given how many ...
When you’re an English speaker learning French, one of the best surprises is how many words are cognates—words that look and sound similar in both English and French, and have the same meaning. A few ...
I don't like hearing about any languages disappearing, but the idea of French's demise seems intolerable. Fortunately, it is also probably impossible, at least in the near future, but French is a ...
France has mandated French-language replacements for English-language terms used by the video games industry. Agence France-Presse reported on the new words, noting that some of the terms were ...
"You can also see my book as an homage to the English language, which has been able to adopt so many words... Viking, Danish, French, it's astonishing," he told AFP. The key date in the blending ...
Her words were mostly French, but the Ivorian slang and English words that she mixed in made a new language. To speak only French, “c’est zogo” — “it’s uncool,” said Marla ...