Why Learn French?

If you are a native English speaker, one of the best reasons to learn French is to help you understand your own language. Although English is a Germanic language, French has had an enormous impact on it.

In fact French is the largest donor of foreign words in English. Unless your English vocabulary is much higher than average, learning French will greatly increase the number of English words you know.

French is spoken as a native language in more than two dozen countries on five continents. Depending on your sources, French is either the 11th (2) or the 13th (3) most common native language in the world, with 72-79 million native speakers and another 190 million secondary speakers. French is the second most commonly taught second language in the world after English, making a real possibility that speaking French will come in handy practically anywhere you travel.