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French, a latin-origin language, currently natively spoken by 274 million people. This is divided among
51 countries and territories, literally on all continents. According to Report of the International
Organisation of La Francophonie (2014), French is the 5th most spoken language in the world. This
means you will be able to talk to 3.8% of the world by population using French. It is also interesting
knowing that International Organisation of La Francophonie, which is an international organisation of
French-speaking countries, consist of 77 member States and governments, making it one of the largest
language organization in the world. Moreover, please do not assume that French as its names must
relate only to France, but according to Mohamed Benrabah (2014) it is an official language to at least
28 countries beside France. It is too serving as working and official language of the United
Nations, the European Union, UNESCO, NATO, the International Olympic Committee, the
International Red Cross and international courts. Due to these, French opens up your economy
door to more lands beside France itself, just to name a few, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and south
of Africa. French as a secondary language become your asset to uplift your career progress. On the
other hand, anyone who are planning for a boost in business studies, renowned French universities
and business school around the world could pre-qualify you for additional scholarship just because
you are fluent in French. You definitely serve the chance to further your dreams in these lands. Hence,
as a 5th most spoken language in the world, learning French is unrefutably beneficial.
Next, quoting a saying by Rita Mae Brown, a well-known American writer and activist, “Language is
the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” As we
are learning a secondary language, we are gaining the access to the exploration of native French’s
cultures, their teathre, fashion, literature, arts and many others. Majority of us must be heard of the
renowned brand “Louis Vitton” and he is a French. There is biography, business model writing and
other literatures first written in French on Louis Vitton for the past 100 over years, be it by him or
people around him. As we are carrying French as secondary language, we can articulate the first
writings on his journey from designing of stackable travel trunks in a fashion house in 1854 to the
selling of expensive handbags and shoes in 2018. Thus, the culture behind a language can be very
appealing, which can be the objective reason for our language learning. As we aware, reading a
translation of a book will not be the same as reading it in its original language. This is because different
languages have their own grammar and structure. We can only grow intellectually as we are reading
influential works in their original language where the true emotion and idea can be effectively
conveyed to us. On top of this, French became the lingua franca around the European countries in the
18th century and have long become the primary literature language since 11th century. This means
there are a lot of literature written in French language. These literatures are vast then called the
Francophone literature. As of 2006, we can notice France has been ranked first in the list of Nobel
Prizes in literature. For example, Sully Prudhomme, first Nobel Prize in literature wrote many books
in scientific and philosophical. In short, French as the key to another door of rich cultures and
knowledge is right to be studied.
French being a secondary language is not going to be a tough learning journey due to its ease of
learning and great learning opportunity in Malaysia. According to Embassy of France (2018), there are
more than 13,000 pupils were taking French in their daily secondary school timetable in 2016. While
there are increasing numbers of French classes offered as option even in public schools since then. As
for you and me who are keen, there are about 30 universities, colleges and institutes in Malaysia offer
French courses, some are having partnership with Ministry of Education in France, such as Lycée
Français de in Kuala Lumpur, while Universiti Putra Malaysia can be an option if you prefer. You may
also access to the duolingo.com or thefrenchexperiment.com for online French courses if you like to
learn in your comfort zone. Then, once you are ready to take up some assessment or certification,
DELF scolaire up to level B2 whom will be recognized as the independent user. These are already
commonly available in Malaysia for years! However, there must be people still doubt on the level of
difficulty of learning French. The fact is French having many terms or vocabulary like English. Although
the basic vocabulary could be completely different, but we can spot the similarities between the
Romance languages, such as English, French, Spanish, Italian and others. This euphoric language
emphasizes more on the accentuate pronunciation rather than rhythm. Speakers should refrain from
pronouncing consonants whenever it appears at the end of a word unless they are followed by vowels.
This basic rule is enormous but straightforward. It might take few hours of class lessons to solely
understand this fundamental, but your efforts will surely be worthy! Therefore, it is safe to say
learning French is considered easy with all the available learning institutions throughout Malaysia.
References:
Overview of French language in Malaysia. (2018, February 8). Retrieved October 20, 2018, from
https://my.ambafrance.org/Overview-of-French-language-in-Malaysia
Mohamed Benrabah (2014) Competition between four “world” languages in Algeria, Journal of
World Languages, 1:1, 38-59, DOI: 10.1080/21698252.2014.893676
Anthony Jones, P. (2015, August 25). The World's Top 20 Languages-And The Words English Has
Borrowed From Them. Retrieved from http://mentalfloss.com/article/67766/worlds-top-20-
languages-and-words-english-has-borrowed-them
Paolillo, John C.; Das, Anupam (31 March 2006). "Evaluating language statistics: the Ethnologue and
beyond" (PDF). UNESCO Institute of Statistics. pp. 3–5. Retrieved 8 October 2015.