Rosetta Stone - Learn French

You understood over half the French!

The French Language

French is a Romance language, decended from the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire. It is an official language in 29 countries. With 77 million native speakers, French is the second most spoken language in Europe, after German and before English. Outside of France, the highest numbers of French speakers are found in Canada (25% of the population, of whom most live in Quebec), Belgium (45% of the population), Switzerland (20% of the population) and Luxembourg.

Learn French

Since you seem to have an affinity to the language you may like to learn a bit more! There are a number of fantastic online resources for learning French:

Essential phrases to start with

English French Rough Pronunciation
thanks merci mer-si
thanks very much merci beaucoup mer-si beau-coo
please s'il vous plaît
OK d'accord da-cord
good morning bonjour bon-jour
good afternoon bon après-midi
good evening bonsoir bon-soir
good night bon nuit
hello bonjour bon-jour
goodbye au revoir