France’s dozens of regional languages may no longer be spoken by many, but they live on in regional accents, colouring vowel ...

You might have seen the 'circonflexe' accent also known as the 'little hat' in French words like poêle, être, pâle - but where does it come from and does it serve ...

In the past few days, a great deal of media attention has been paid to Leanne Rowe, a Tasmanian woman who has lived eight years with a French accent she acquired after a car accident. This phenomenon ...

People wait with signs on May 30, 2008 in Lille for the arrival of the actors and crew, of record-breaking French film "Bienvenue chez les ch'tis", (Welcome to the Ch'tis), who will greet the crowd ...

When a society changes, its language is likely to change along with it. To take an extreme example, past colonisers often forced the inhabitants of colonised lands to speak their language. If they ...