French and English are the world’s only truly global languages spoken on every continent

The World of French Over 300 million people all over the world use French regularly. Only 60 million of them– about one fifth– live in France

The World of French Over 200 million people throughout Europe Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North and South America and the Caribbean use French

French-speaking Countries L’Albanie L’Algérie L’Andorre L’Arménie L’Autriche La Belgique Le Bénin La Bulgarie Le Burkina Faso Le Burundi Le Cambodge Le Cameroun Le Canada Le Cap-Vert Le Centrafrique Chypre Les Comores Le Congo La République démocratique du Congo La Côte d'Ivoire La Croatie Le Djibouti La Dominique L’Égypte La Macédoine La France Le Gabon La Géorgie Le Ghana La Grèce La Guinée La Guinée Bissau La Guinée équatoriale Haïti La Hongrie Le Laos Le Liban La Lituanie Le Luxembourg Le Madagascar Le Mali Le Maroc L’Île Maurice La Mauritanie La Moldavie Le Monaco Le Mozambique Le Niger La Pologne La République Tchèque La Roumanie Le Rwanda La Sainte-Lucie Sao Tomé et Principe Le Sénégal La Serbie Les Seychelles La Slovaquie La Slovénie La Suisse La Syrie Le Tchad Le Togo La Tunisie L’Ukraine Vanuatu Le Vietnam 55 nations, over one-fourth of the world’s countries use French as an official, or national language

English-speaking World English is used as an official or national language in more countries than any other language. It is also the world’s most studied foreign language.

French-speaking World French, in addition to being the world’s second most commonly used national language, is also the world’s second most widely studied foreign language. Over twice as many countries use French..,.

Spanish-speaking World …as use Spanish…

Arabic-speaking World

Latin-speaking World …or Latin

For the past 100 years, French has solidly remained the second most widely studied language in the United States

Only French and Spanish are studied by more than one million students in the US

In fact, more students study French than study every other language except Spanish…

…combined!

French is the second most widely studied language among college bound students

Studying another language improves your verbal skills in English Studying another language improves your verbal skills in English. However, there is no significant difference, nationally or at Saint Ignatius, between students who study French, Spanish, or Latin

The most important thing is that you study a language and preferably take an honors or AP course in a world language

2006 AP Exams AP US History 311,000 AP English Literature 281,111 AP English Language 256,722 AP Calculus AB 197,181 AP Government: US 143,980 AP Biology 131,783 AP Spanish Language 101,473 AP Psychology 101,221 AP European History 91,040 AP Chemistry 88,237 AP Statistics 87,465 AP World History 84,143 AP Calculus BC 58,603 AP Macroeconomics 52,599 AP Physics B 50,987 AP Environmental Science 44,698 AP Microeconomics 33,092 AP Physics C: Mechanics 24,480 AP French Language 21,572 AP Human Geography 21,003 AP Art History 17,977 AP Computer Science A 14,662 AP Spanish Literature 14,287 AP Government: Comparative 12,742 AP Studio Art: Drawing 12,580 AP Music Theory 11,809 AP Studio Art: 2-D Design 11,803 AP Physics C: Electricity/Magnetism 10,481 AP German Language 5,139 AP Computer Science AB 4,939 AP Latin: Vergil 4,844 AP Latin Literature 3,333 AP Studio Art: 3-D Design 2,019 AP French Literature 2,009 AP Italian Language 1,597 AP Modern Language courses, unlike other AP courses, are meant to be the equivalent of third-year college level courses . AP French Language was one of the original AP Exams administered over 50 years ago and remains popular.

Over 150,000 students study French at US colleges and universities…

…making it by far the second most popular world language

French- The Language of Technology France and French-speaking countries are leaders in technical fields such as transportation, aviation, energy, telecommunications, medicine, genetics, and rocket technologies. Some examples are: The TGV, the world’s fastest rail train, whose design was used for Amtrack’s high speed Acela train The Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft The European Space Agency’s Ariane rocket launcher which send more satellites into space than any

French- The Language of Business The US exports more to countries having French as a national language than to countries having any other foreign language. The US is the largest direct investor in France and France is one of the three largest investors in the US. Among foreign countries doing business in the US, France employs the third largest number of Americans. Many well known brands in the US are French owned.

French at Saint Ignatius Seventeen National Winners of the National French Contest One Regional STAR National French Contest Scholarship Winner Five Winners of La Maison Française de Cleveland individual competition Veteran faculty with experience including National Board Certification, AP grading, grants, fellowships, and travel and study on five continents Why study French at Saint Ignatius High School?

Open yourself to the world! Let the world open itself to you! Study French! French is alive and well and growing!