Do You Have A Reason To Learn French?


by Christopher Byrnes - Date: 2007-03-09 - Word Count: 407 Share This!

When people start out learning French, they often fail because ethey don't have a definite reason to learn French. This is particularly obvious in schools, where pupils attend classes, but make little progress, simply because they don't want to be there, and they don't have enough interest to stimulate them through the difficult task of learning French.

If you are contemplating learning French, before you even start to open a book, or put a CD language rom on the computer, I recommend you make sure that you first have a solid, definite reason to learn French, or your fate may be the same as the average school pupil's!

Where do you find a reason to learn French? First of all, there is the obvious commercial benefit. Did you know that more than 40 countries boast French as an official language, and that there are 176 million French speakers in the world? Admitedly, that may not be as many as English, with 460 million, but French still accounts for a huge slice of the world markets. Imagine how much your promotion prospects will soar, if you are are in a company which has dealings with French speaking countries, and you are a fluent french speaker.

Then there are the cultural reasons. France is one of the most civilized and cultures countries in the world. France is home to devine wines, sumptuous cuisine, impressionist art, and Paris rivals Milan as the European center of the fashion industry.

Learning French gives you access to the real France, or the real beating heart of any other french speaking country you want to get to know better. You cannot know a country in depth until you know its people and its culture, and the key to understanding both is the language.

Here is another reason to learn French: When you learn a foreign language, you learn more about your own language in the process. If you learn a language related to English, as French is, from the point of view of lexis at any rate, you will enrich your vocabulary and increase your proficiency in both languages.

"So what?", you might say. If you want a purely materialistic reason for enriching your comman of English, then here it is: Did you know that people with wider vocabularies earn more on average than people without such knowledge? Why do you think there are so many vocabulary enhancement courses out there? This is just one more reason to learn French.


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