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Bienvenue au Département de français de la Wikiversité !

French Division
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Welcome to the French Department at Wikiversity, part of the Center for Foreign Language Learning and the School of Language and Literature.

Introduction to French
French (français, fʁɑ̃sɛ) is today spoken around the world by 72 to 130 million people as a native language, and by about 190 to 600 million people as a second or third language, with significant speakers in 54 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France, where the language originated. The rest live in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and Lebanon.

French is a descendant of the Latin language of the Roman Empire, as are languages such as Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Catalan and Romanian. Its development was also influenced by the native Celtic languages of Roman Gaul and by the Germanic language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders.

It is an official language in 31 countries, most of which form what is called in French "La Francophonie": the community of French-speaking nations. It is an official language of all United Nations agencies and a large number of international organizations.

Streams

 * List of French Learners and Teachers

Courses, Lessons and Resources
Courses currently being offered by the French Department: Other Resources: Other projects:
 * Français I
 * Français II
 * La Littérature du 18e siècle
 * French Wall Charts and Posters
 * French Phrase Books
 * The French Mentoring Project is now live. Sign up to get a French Mentor, or if you'd like to be one.
 * Do you know that there is a French Wikiversity ? Visit their projects (Faculté de Français, Département:Français langue étrangère, ...) and get in contact with native French speakers
 * Do you know that there exists the French Wikiversity chat: fr:Wikiversité:IRC #wikiversity-fr - click here to go there now
 * La Littérature Française - A subdepartment for studying French literature.

Planned

 * Français III
 * Français IV

Tasks

 * 1) Use existing Wikibooks materials in the French Department (e.g. why not create a quiz ?)
 * 2) Merge current pages with Wikibooks.

Vocabulary

 * See the lists at the French Appendices on Wikibooks.

Verb conjugation

 * For a list of tenses and how to conjugate them (regularly), please see French tenses sorted by Mood and Type.
 * To learn how to conjugate irregular verbs, please see Irregular verb conjugations in French.

Typing Accents

 * For general information on how to type French characters in all contexts, please see Typing Characters in French.

Department news

 * November 4th, 2008 The French Mentoring project has been launched!
 * June 11th 2008 French Literature has been created and new interest in French Department has been received.
 * December 25th 2006 The French Department's first course, Français I is in development!
 * September 27th, 2006 - Department founded!
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