The French Language History course aims to trace the major developments of the French language, from its earliest days to the present day.
As part of this course, we will work with a variety of materials: language textbooks, multimedia resources, newspaper articles, etc. The main idea is to give pupils and students a grounding in the origins of French, its structure, vocabulary, phonetics, and spelling. The course will cover a variety of texts (political and literary) from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
This course is aimed at advanced C1-C2 level pupils and students.
Reference work: Olivier Bertrand, Histoire du vocabulaire français, Editions de l'Ecole polytechnique (2011).
