French Online Language Courses
According to the BBC, French is the official language and first language of 88 per cent of the population. It is also the dominant language of the country’s 70 million inhabitants, but there are regional variations. According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, French is the world’s second most widely studied foreign language, with nearly 120 million students. About 3% of the population speaks German dialects, and there is a small group of Flemish speakers in the northeast. Arabic is the third most common minority language. People living near the Italian border may speak Italian as a second language, and people living along the French-Spanish border may speak Basque.
Catalan, Breton (the Celtic language), Occitan dialects, and languages from former French colonies such as Kabyle and Antillean Creole are also spoken.



