By
taking a course with Sprachcaffe in France, you will be
able to handle the official language used in France, one of
Canada’s two official languages and one of the four
official languages of Switzerland.
The French language is a member of the
Romance language group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European
languages. As a Romance dialect, French is one of the languages
descended from Latin. It is the third of the Romance languages
in terms of number of speakers, outnumbered by Spanish and
Portuguese.
French speakers are referred to as Francophones.
French is a widely spoken language throughout
Europe as well as in other parts of the world. There are
approximately:
- 51 million first language speakers in France
- 77 million first language speakers in the world,
- 128 million French language speakers (including the second
language speakers) in the world.
It is an official or administrative language
in various communities and organizations (such as the European
Union, UNESCO, United Nations and Universal Postal Union,
the International Monetary Fund, among others).
French is also spoken in 53 other countries
including Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Burkina
Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, CAR, Chad, Comoros Islands,
Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, DRC, Djibouti, French Guiana,
French Polynesia, Gabon.
