By feeding centuries-old nursery rhymes and folklore recordings into their own model, linguists in Louisiana hope to help a ...

This week is the Semaine de la francophonie. To mark it, RFI language services have focused on bilingual French dictionaries in their given languages and looked at how those dictionaries evolved. The ...

A language is an inescapable tool for communication and, words are one of the tools of expression. Even if it is impossible to dissociate language and culture, it is possible, even though difficult, ...

At the peak of the North Country's timber industry a century ago, thousands of French-speaking Canadian immigrants came to ...

Are you looking to learn or improve your French? The Département d’études françaises offers a variety of courses to help French-language learners build essential skills and a strong foundation. Learn ...

In the latest step in a long-running battle over whether to make the French language more inclusive, President Emmanuel Macron has urged its speakers "not to give in to the zeitgeist" by using ...

At the core of this initiative, under which German and Japanese languages will also be introduced in a phased manner likely ...

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 ...