Bonjour mis amis,

The reasons for learning any second language are many (helps your brain function at a higher level, allows you to communicate with a whole new group of people, makes it a lots easier to travel around the world, etc…), but why should French be the language you choose to study? Here are just of few of the many reason French should be your choice:

• 200 million people in the world understand, speak, read, or write French.
• French is the official language of 33 countries.
• French is the most widely taught 2nd language in the world.
• French is the official language of the international postal service and the Red Cross.
• French is one of the two official languages of the Olympic games and the United Nations.
• Roughly half of the words in the modern English language are borrowed from French.
• French is lexically more like English than any other romance language.
• French is the second most commonly used language on the internet.
• French is the only other language, other than English, that is taught in every single country around the world.
• There are over 525 French language universities in the world.
• French is the language of love!

Learning any second language will be beneficial to you no matter what language you choose!

Merci! Au revoir!

Learner, Thinker, Writer: Meggan Stacey serves the Trinity School community as a World Languages Teacher.