The language of love and romance, the language of culture, the language for the
international job market, the language for travel, and the language for higher
education – French has many specialities. More than 300 million people speak
French on the five continents. French is the second most widely learned foreign
language after English, and the fifth most widely spoken language in the world.
French is an easy language to learn. French is a good base for learning other
languages, especially Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian)
as well as English, since a significant percentage of English vocabulary is derived from French.