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Langues

Parlez-vous français ? What about another language? Here’s how to say the most commonly spoken and studied languages in French, plus a few more for good measure.

Arabic		l’arabe
Bengali		le bengali
Chinese		le chinois
Dutch		le néerlandais
English		l’anglais
Farsi		le farsi
Flemish		le flamand
French		le français
Gaelic		le gaélique
German		l’allemand
Greek		le grec
Hebrew		l’hébreu
Hindi		l’hindi
Irish		l’irlandais
Italian		l’italien
Japanese		le japonais
Korean		le coréen
Mandarin		le mandarin
Polish		le polonais
Portuguese		le portugais
Punjabi		le pendjabi
Russian		le russe
Spanish		l’espagnol
Swahili		le swahili / souahéli
Tagalog		le tagal
Ukrainian		l’ukrainien
Vietnamese		le vietnamien
Welsh		le gallois

  Notes

• All languages are masculine.
• Languages are never capitalized in French.
• Many languages are identical to their respective nationalities.

French expressions with languages

• Impossible n’est pas français – There’s no such word as "can’t"
• parler le français comme une vache espagnole – to speak broken French

Verb conjugations

• Apprendre  (to learn)
• Comprendre  (to understand)
• Étudier  (to study)
• Parler  (to speak)

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