The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States. Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at home in the federal 2020 American Commu
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Bilingual exit sign on Interstate 87 in Clinton County, New York, near the U.S.-Canada border with Quebec
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French Americans or Franco-Americans are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or Québécois heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties. T
French language in the United States
…is the second most widely taught foreign language (after Spanish) in American schools, colleges and universities. While the overwhelming majority of Americans of French ancestry grew up speaking only English, some enroll their children in French heritage language classes. There are three major groups of French dialects that…
The Statue of Liberty is a gift from the French people in memory of the American Declaration of Independence.
Members of the French community in Holyoke, Massachusetts taking English classes at a YMCA night school, 1902
Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935
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