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Register for
French Class at Truman!
Maryam Damghani
Email: [email protected]
Parlez-vous
Français?
OUI OUI
adieu, art déco, bon appétit, carte
blanche, croissant, c'est la vie, cul-desac, déjà vu, démodé, femme fatale, film
noir, idée fixe, je ne sais quoi, joie de
vivre, matinée, souvenir, toilette,
sauté, fondue, purée, flambée
WOULDN’T YOU JUST LOVE
IT IF YOU KNEW MORE
FRENCH?
FRENCH
IS TOO
HARD!!!
WHERE
WOULD I
EVER USE
IT?
WHO
SPEAKS
FRENCH?
REALLY,WHY LEARN FRENCH ?!?
Let us show you why
FRENCH is THE
LANGUAGE TO LEARN!!!
WHO SPEAKS FRENCH ?!?
• Of course – THE FRENCH !!!
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL !!!
FRENCH is also spoken in 43
francophone countries across 5
continents and it is the official
language of 33 countries.
LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK:
ACROSS THE 5
CONTINENTS 600
MILLION PEOPLE HAVE
THIS ONE THING IN
COMMON:
Ils parlent français !!!
La langue de l’amour !!!
And 1.9 million of these 600
million people are AMERICAN.
Here are some French speakers
you might know
And some more
AND ONE ROMANTIC
SKUNK :
You ask yourself how
do all these people
speak SUCH A
DIFFICULT
LANGUAGE??
We have a BIG
SECRET to
share with you!
• Over 30% of English words come
from French.
• English grammatical structure is
similar to French structure.
• Over 20,000 French words mean
the same in English and Spanish.
Can you guess the meaning of the words
in red??
L’Europe du 20e siècle a été profondément marquée par
les guerres, des guerres mondiales et coloniales qui ont
fait des millions de morts et dont les répercussions
économiques, politiques et psychologiques ont pris des
proportions gigantesques. Quel est le sens de la vie au
milieu de tant de destruction ? Qu’est-ce qu’une
civilisation qui porte dans ses découvertes atomiques les
graines de son propre anéantissement ? Dans un âge où
la science et la technologie remettent constamment en
question les valeurs humaines, les artistes et les
écrivains explorent sans cesse de nouvelles dimensions.
So you see,
you too can
learn to
“parle
français”
Register for
French Class at Truman!
Maryam Damghani
Email: [email protected]
Now where can you use your
French?
Most graduate
schools require
knowledge of at
least one
foreign
language, and
French remains
the most
commonly used
language after
English.
French is the
2nd most
important
language on
the Internet,
based on
WWW pages,
number of
discussion
lists, and
number of
countries
connected to
the Internet.
France is the
world’s most
visited tourist
destination
(over 60
million visitors
per year)
Can you get a BETTER JOB
if you speak French?
OF COURSE YOU CAN !!!
French, along with English, is the
official working language of many
world organizations such as:
• the United Nations
• UNESCO
• International Labor
Bureau
• International
Olympic Committee
•
•
•
•
NATO
the European Community
the Universal Postal Union
the International Red
Cross
• Union of International
Associations (UIA)
France has the fourth
largest economy in the
world after the U.S.,
Japan and Germany.
France is first in the
world in trains and
production of luxury
goods; second in the
world in commercial
aircraft production,
defense production and
export of agricultural
products; third in
rocketry and electronics
equipment; fourth in
automobiles.
France is a world
leader in medical
research:
Above: HIV Virus
The AIDS virus
was first isolated
by French
doctors.
Vive le Français
Je m’appelle
(My name is)
Maryam.
I teach French at Truman
College
Register for
French Class at Truman!
Maryam Damghani
Email: [email protected]