Education & Development
What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
...English. ...Find out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. There is a long-standing tradition of making French a viable language of its own. Already in 1549, Joachim du Bellay wrote a treatise explaining, amongst other things, that translations from other languages should be curtailed because France didn’t need imports. Instead, French...