Introduction

"Welcome to French at Emory", a video message by Lilia Coropceanu

French belongs to the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken as a first language by more than 70 million people. French is a descendant of the vernacular Latin of the Roman Empire. Although modern French inherited several hundred words of Celtic origin and several hundred more from Germanic Franks, it owes its structure and the greater part of its vocabulary to Latin.

Departments & Related Programs

Department of French & Italian

Online Audio and Video

Languages at Emory - Faculty Interviews

Emory Favorites

Ultralingua Dictionary and Verb Conjugations
Verbix Conjugations
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
TV5 Monde
The ARTFL Project
Musee d'Orsay
Musee du Louvre