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Friday, February 09, 2007

How To Learn To Speak French Online Effectively By Not Getting Swindled!

Did you ever think to learn to speak French online, from your own home or even in your Car? Some softwares give you that opportunities while some others are only going to give you amateur programs. So if you really want to master the French language with excellence you need to be sure that your software is optimized and able to really teach you something.

A lot of producers just want to sell their things at high prices with low qualities while others really offer you the top-notch level. Please be careful not to use one of them because you're going to waste your time and a lot of money. I visited a lot of blogs and sites and believe me I discovered that the most of them are just real scam. Since I'm from Belgium and that the French language is one of my main languages I easily located those who really want to guide you to learn French and those who are just there to swindle you and unfortunately they are the majority.

So again I warn you! Be careful and look after those who deserve to have you as their client. For example a lot of them are going to give you old fashion guide lines with the same old fashion tips. Such programs should be erased from the "How to learn to speak French online" lists since that it seems they didn't wanted to spend enough time and money from their own to offer you (the king and client) the cutting-edge programs with beautiful and decorated spaces to embellish your teaching environment so to ease your way to learn to speak French Online with a nice feeling of comfort.

All of these things are only details who will give you the possibility to progress fast without spending a lot of effort nor money. Keep this in mind. You need and absolutely want to achieve as fast as possible to learn to speak French amazingly well without effort nor tremendous amounts of money.

All of that in a jam-packed "How to learn to speak French online" software loaded with information, activities and exercises. Last but not least, you really want the crucial and lethal weapon to be able to catch the delicious taste of speaking with the right accent and that's a software who offers you effective sound files that show you how to pronounce the characters with confidence to attain your goal of speaking French by mastering it with excellence.

Stay tuned and follow my next articles loaded of tips, tools and techniques to learn how to speak French online.

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The French Language And Its History by Everaert Patrice.


The French language came originally from Vulgar Latin that also is known from the Roman Empire as the vernacular Latin. At the time the Romans conquered Ancient Gaul (now known as France) in the 2nd and 1st Century B.C. they spoke a Celtic language called "Gaulish". Around the 5th Century a Romanized Germanic Tribe invaded Gaul. Even if modern French owes much of its vocabulary and structure to Latin a couple of hundred words of German and Celtic origin make apart of it.

Only by the 9th Century the language known in Gaul was almost the same as the one we know of modern France and it was enough different of the Latin language to be a distinct language. It is also known as Old French and was used from the 9th to the 13th Century. The oldest still remaining text dated from 842 in Old French is the Oaths of Strasbourg.

Because of the Cultural and Political importance of Paris the dialect of Old French called "Francien" became the most standard form of speech in Paris and its suburbs. By the 14th until the 16th Century the French language was known as "Middle French". To improve and develop their literature and language some French Poets called " Pléiade" where pushing the French because at that time a lot of words where taking from Latin, Italian and Greek.

Only in the 17th Century the French language took its own steps to modernization. Cardinal Richelieu was the founder of the French Academy in 1635 and strived to keep the French language pure as its literature and he was the ultimate judge to approve the usage of the French.

Even if the style of Modern French and its vocabulary is influenced by romanticism and realism, actually until now it only changed a little bit from the "Middle French" period. By ways of widespread education and mass media the French language has been aided in modern times to gain a real standardization. As you see there's a lot of the French language that we didn't even knew.

And believe me! There's still a lot to learn. It isn't a coincidence that over years and years different countries and cultures are striving to attain the goal to speak that very beautiful language.

You could ask yourself: For which purpose?

• A lot of them just want to penetrate the world and history of the French culture with its language.

• Others only want to be able to go and live one day in the ancient villages that are still visited by thousands and thousands of people the day of today.

• Some of them want to gain the knowledge of a language that had and still has its importance in this world.

• …

What ever it is! Nobody can tell me that this "Language of Romance" isn't marvelous…

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Friday, December 01, 2006

Learn Basic French Online: The Plural Determinants.


The
= les

A = des

This = ces

Ex.: pantalons (masculine plural – m.pl.)

cravates (feminine plural - f.pl.)

My = mes

Your = tes

His, her = ses

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