The Parti Quebecois is leading the polls for next month's provincial election in Canada. If they win a majority, they intend to tighten Quebec's already established language laws. NPR's Arun Rath ...

Due to its colonial past with France, Togo adopted French as its official language in 1960, a fact enshrined in Article 3 of the country's constitution. But what place does French now have in Togo’s ...

In a speech earlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron stated his support for a bill to ban inclusive language – or a way of writing in French that uses both masculine and feminine forms for ...

It is 6 p.m. You have logged off from work and are unwinding with a glass of wine. You turn on the TV, but instead of Netflix, you click on a new app called 6pm in Paris, and spend the next 30 minutes ...

Correction: An earlier edition of this story incorrectly spelled the name of a former French colony, and listed a country that is not in Africa. The French are a proud bunch, especially when it comes ...

Computer scientists at MIT and Israel's Technion recently developed an algorithm that analyzes quirks and errors in English-as-a-second-language (ESL) essays to predict the author's native tongue, ...

General guidelines for placement in FREN courses: If you have never taken a French language class before, FREN 101 is the course for you. If you have already taken French in high school but do not ...

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