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Meet the Académie française
Forty members - ' ' - have watched over French since 1635, and they publish their own dictionary. Look up a word you already know.
Meet the Académie française
Forty members - 'les immortels' - have watched over French since 1635, and they publish their own dictionary. Look up a word you already know.
A language this established has real institutions behind it - academies that publish the official dictionary and grammar, and cultural networks that teach and champion French around the world. Meeting them now gives you the reference points every serious learner ends up using.
Open the site and have a look around. You won't understand most of it yet - that's fine. Spotting even one or two words you already know on a real page is the point.
Read it in French
L'Académie française veille sur la langue française depuis 1635. Ses quarante membres sont « les immortels ».
The Académie française has watched over the French language since 1635. Its forty members are 'the immortals'.
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