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    The document discusses the benefits of learning French as a secondary language. It notes that French is spoken natively by 274 million people globally and is an official language in over 50 countries. Learning French opens up economic opportunities in France and other French-speaking countries and regions. It also provides access to French culture through literature, art, and other cultural works best experienced in their original language. French has a long literary history and was a prominent language of literature for centuries. Overall, the document argues that French is a worthwhile secondary language to learn due to its widespread use, economic advantages, and access to French culture and knowledge.

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    The document discusses the benefits of learning French as a secondary language. It notes that French is spoken natively by 274 million people globally and is an official language in over 50 countries. Learning French opens up economic opportunities in France and other French-speaking countries and regions. It also provides access to French culture through literature, art, and other cultural works best experienced in their original language. French has a long literary history and was a prominent language of literature for centuries. Overall, the document argues that French is a worthwhile secondary language to learn due to its widespread use, economic advantages, and access to French culture and knowledge.

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    The document discusses the benefits of learning French as a secondary language. It notes that French is spoken natively by 274 million people globally and is an official language in over 50 countries. Learning French opens up economic opportunities in France and other French-speaking countries and regions. It also provides access to French culture through literature, art, and other cultural works best experienced in their original language. French has a long literary history and was a prominent language of literature for centuries. Overall, the document argues that French is a worthwhile secondary language to learn due to its widespread use, economic advantages, and access to French culture and knowledge.

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    “Hello; Hi; How are you?” Do you understand me?

    All creatures on earth communicate, but human is


    different as we can communicate in words, the spoken language. According to UNESO (2006), there
    are over of 7100 spoken and signed languages in the world now. Language is crucial to enable people
    to share information. In Malaysia, majority of us can communicate in the Malay and English, but the
    limits of language could be the limits of our world. Thus, it is worth to ponder the saying by Tomáš
    Garrigue Masaryk, a Czech sociologist and philosopher, who once said “As many languages you know,
    as many times you are a human being”. From now on, please bear with each other that we are in a
    multilingualism era, whereby more than one language is necessary for us to get connected globally.
    Yet most of us might keep struggling to judge which secondary languages are worth studying today.
    Hence, it is my pleasure to lead all of you to look into facts and opinions that Mandarin, French and
    Japanese definitely the best secondary languages to be learnt due to the diverse pool of knowledge,
    greater financial impact, ease of learning, number and distribution of speakers, global relationship
    opportunity and learning opportunity.

    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

    Report of the International Organisation of La Francophonie(2014, November 5). International


    Organisation of La Francophonie. http://www.francophonie.org/274-millions-de-francophones-
    dans.html

    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.

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