Montreal is fast becoming a Franglais city in which most of its young people are proficient in both French and English – and their music is a reflection of that For most people, the term “Franglais” ...

President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants French to become the first language in Africa and 'maybe even the world' AFP / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN A centuries-old institution regarded as the guardian of ...

FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE, new president of France and co-prince of Andorra, has had many grave matters on his mind since taking office in May. They range from how to deal with France’s vertiginous national ...

French dictionaries are growing in size as new words are produced to rival Franglais. File photo: Tim Green In the second instalment of The Local's opinion series Tête-a-tête, we examine efforts to ...

Franglais - a mixture of French and English - often uses words that wouldn’t make sense to a native speaker. Hannah Partos gives some tips on navigating some of the more curious French borrowings from ...

2:07 New Quebec government ad campaign warns anglicisms put the French language in danger Quebec has launched its latest salvo in the ongoing battle to stop the decline of the French language. The ...

The British are notoriously bad at learning foreign tongues. But with Franglais, the late Miles Kington showed anyone could get by on holiday with just a petit peu of effort. If there is one foreign ...

Advertisers seem to find it irresistible to drop English words into French adverts - and vice versa - but this can lead to some very awkward translation fails. Here are some of the funniest (and NSFW) ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Philip Woolfson. Sir, Having worked in Paris and Brussels for more than 30 years and spent much of that ...

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A centuries-old institution regarded as the guardian of the French language has warned state officials against encouraging the spread of "franglais", saying it could have dire consequences for the ...