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3 langues importantes en Afrique
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« Voici trois langues… » — talking ABOUT languages in French: how to name them, and the grammar of le français, l’arabe, le swahili.
🎬 About this episode
« Voici trois langues… » — talking ABOUT languages in French: how to name them, and the grammar of le français, l’arabe, le swahili.
🔊 Key phrases for this topic
Voici trois langues importantes.Here are three important languages.
Le français est parlé partout.French is spoken everywhere.
Quelle langue parles-tu ?Which language do you speak?
J’apprends le français.I’m learning French.
C’est ma langue maternelle.It’s my mother tongue.
🔑 The language point
- Language names take le and no capital: le français, l’anglais, l’arabe.
- BUT after parler you can drop it: « je parle français ».
- « la langue maternelle » = mother tongue — a phrase worth owning. More on the countries chart.
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