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About French
- Language family
- Indo-European, Italic, Romance (Gallo-Romance)
- Where it's spoken
- France, Canada (Quebec), Belgium, Switzerland, much of West and Central Africa
- Speakers
- roughly 80 million native speakers and 300 million total
French developed from the Latin spoken in Roman Gaul, layered with Frankish (Germanic) influence, and was standardized around the Île-de-France dialect used in Paris. Colonial and diplomatic history spread it across West and Central Africa, the Caribbean, and parts of Canada, where it remains an official language today. It shares a large cognate vocabulary with the other Romance languages.
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FSI French course
Public-domain FSI French courseware — hub anchor.
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course free | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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Live Lingua French library
Public-domain course downloads with audio where available.
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course free | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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DLI GLOSS French
Search GLOSS for authentic reading/listening lessons.
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course free | B1-C1 | free | 2026-07-22 |
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TV5Monde Apprendre
Free leveled French lessons from Francophone TV.
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course free | A1-C1 | free | 2026-07-22 |