While it’s open to debate the extent to which French is a romantic language, there’s no question about it being a Romance language! With notable origins as one of the Indo-European languages descended from Latin, French is amongst the leaders of the Romance language pack of major players: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. It’s the native tongue of some 65 to 80 million individuals worldwide, but is spoken by anywhere up to a phenomenal figure of 200 million as a second or third language.

So let’s get to the nitty-gritty of French, as only a French class London will uncover for any potential learners! French, like many of the other major Romance languages, hasn’t kept the Latin declensions but has developed grammatical articles from Latin demonstratives. French has two grammatical genders and new tenses formed from auxiliaries. So what does this all mean? Well, as you’ll learn at a French lesson London, it all boils down to something about which the French can be pretty proud!

In fact, the French language is something of a “sacred cow” and has been so since the 17th-century establishment of l’Académie française by the Cardinal Richelieu. The body acts as the official authority on the language and is responsible for publishing the official French dictionary. Whilst its rulings are only advisory, chances are that anything you’ve come into contact with at your French lesson in London has been already given the tick of approval by the forty members of the Académie, who are also spookily know as immortels (immortals).

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