What keeps Vermonters from venturing to Québec more often? Whether they admit it or not, for most Anglophones, it’s the official language of: French, aka français — and not the kind you learned in ...

Is it apéro o'clock yet? Paris metro station renaming, part of an April Fools joke. Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP Certain French linguists use up a lot of angst on the many anglicisms that creep ...

With one word with numerous meanings, the scabrous French equivalent of a bad apple, an old word to baffle young people, the perfect term for a protest and a mythbuster - here are some of our ...

The English language loves a good loan word. These are words and phrases lifted directly from another language. You may recognize some of the popular French sayings that have made their way into ...

The English and French languages share over 1,700 identical words – often with similar or exact meanings. In fact, up to 45% of English words have French origins, largely due to the Norman invasion of ...

Anyone who happens to know their way around a lot of languages can barely help noticing this eerie similarity. But when it comes to European languages closely related to English, like the Romance and ...

Most Americans don’t need to fly across an ocean to immerse themselves in the French language. There are millions of French speakers just to our north in Canada. 1. CANADA IS OFFICIALLY BILINGUAL (AND ...

For centuries, there's been no official French word for what may be the country's most popular export – the "French kiss" – but that's finally been rectified. The one-word verb "galocher" — to kiss ...