FRENCH is The Practical Language

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FRENCH is The Practical Language
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FRENCH is Smart for yourSelf
EVER WONDERED WHY?
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VOCABULARY and SPELLING

• 40 of English words
• come directly from French
• The majority of these words are
  multi-syllabic.
• Therefore, when you learn French, you have
  a
• broader range of words to express your
  ideas.
• An example is ameliorate or to make
  better.

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SAT Scores

• Studying French can boost your test scores more
  than 100 points on the SAT
• In fact, research shows that those who have
  studied four or more years scored identically in
  math as those who have studied four years of
  math
• and scored higher in verbal than those who have
  studied four or more years in any other subject.

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UNIVERSITIESMost require three years of the
same language.

• seek you who have taken FRENCH because
• it improves your communication skills
• develops independent thinking
• creates an understanding of other perspectives
• provides you with cultural experiences
• helps you become aware of the world
• around you.

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CAREERSFrench is practical for your career
choice

• Aeronautics
• Fine Art
• Architecture
• Banking
• Dance
• Diplomacy

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CAREERS

• Education
• Engineering
• Fiber optics
• Financial Services
• Gourmet Food
• High Fashion

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CAREERS

• Human Genome Project
• Interpretation
• Inventions
• Journalism
• Literature and Theater
• Medicine
• (AIDS and cancer research)
• Military

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CAREERS

• Physics
• Science
• Sports casting
• Technology
• Telecommunications
• Translation
• Travel and Tourism

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French is Useful in Utah

• DID YOU KNOW?

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Utah is home to many French companies.

• Bayer
• Dannon
• Bidegain
• American Credit Indemnity
• AXA Advisors
• Infogrames, Inc.
• Teleperformance USA

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Utah is home to many French companies.

• Phytomer Corp.
• Publis Salt Lake City
• Euro RSCG DSW
• Pierre O. Langue
• AIA
• DPLG
• Composite Materials Inc.

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Other Utah companies that employ French speakers

• American Express
• Discover
• Delta
• Central Intelligence Agency

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Utah tourism welcomes many French-speaking
visitors to our state

• on the ski slopes
• in our national parks

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FRENCH is Needed in the Nation

• ARE YOU AWARE?
• UNCLE SAM
• NEEDS YOU!

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Our President

• is calling for more individuals
• who speak foreign languages fluently
• to improve
• our national security.

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FRENCH is a springboard to learning more
difficult foreign languages

• By choosing French
• (one of the easiest languages
• for an English speaker)
• you will develop skills that are
• crucial to acquiring
• more difficult languages,
• like Chinese, Arabic, etc.

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FRANCE and CANADA are two of the worlds seven
wealthiest countries

• Canada is the most important export market and
  trade partner for the U.S.A.
• France is the fourth largest recipient of U.S.
  investment abroad and the fifth foreign direct
  investor in the U.S.A.
• The French now invest more in the U.S.A. than any
  other country.
• Approximately 2400 French companies have
  subsidiaries in the U.S.A.

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French is Wanted in the World
WHY IN THE WORLD?
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FRENCHis one of only two languages spoken on
five continents.

• French is used officially
• in 53 countries or regions
• and
• is spoken by 125 million people
• around the world.

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FRENCH

• French is the second most commonly taught foreign
  language in the world after English.
• France is the most popular destination for
  tourists, with 75 million visitors in 2005.
• France has the fifth largest economy in the world.

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FRENCH

• The French language channel
• TV5Monde
• is the most widely viewed
• television channel in the world.

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AMERICAN companies in FRANCE

• IBM
• Microsoft
• Mattel
• Dow Chemical
• SaraLee
• Ford

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AMERICAN companies in FRANCE

• Coca-Cola
• ATT
• Motorola
• Steelcase
• Johnson Johnson

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FRENCH means global communication as an
official language of

• United Nations
• International Red Cross
• International Olympic Committee
• UNESCO
• NATO

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FRENCH means global communication

• International Labor Bureau
• International Monetary Fund
• World Court
• European Community
• Doctors Without Borders

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AND REMEMBERFrench isthe Language of

• Art, Literature, and Philosophy
• I think, therefore I am.
• René Descartes

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The Language of Romance

• Love is
• not the act of looking at each other,
• but of looking together
• in the same direction.
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The Language of Travel

• A walk about Paris
• will provide lessons in history,
• in beauty
• and in the point of Life.
• Thomas Jefferson

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The Language of Cuisine

• The destiny of nations
• depends on how they eat.
• Brillat-Savarin

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Benjamin Franklin

• Everyman has two nations
• and
• one of them is France.

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FRENCH is a PRACTICAL LANGUAGE
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Learning a foreign language takes time! (ACTFL)

• Superior
• high, medium, low
• Advanced
• high, medium, low
• (700 hours)
• Intermediate
• high, medium, low
• (240 hours)
• Novice
• high, medium, low
• (80 hours) (15 hours)

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La Tour Eiffel

• La Fin

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• Prepared by Linda Bayes
• Remerciements to Marie Hélène Glon and Erick
  Perry
• Information from the AATF (American Association
  of Teachers of French)